Team Leader - Eastleigh Community Mental Health Team
The closing date is 01 March 2026
Job summary
Band 7 Team Leader - Eastleigh CMHT
Do you have a passion for delivering outstanding care to adults with mental health difficulties, and their families, while supporting and inspiring colleagues? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
We are looking for a proactive, compassionate and motivated person to come and lead a dynamic team. Working alongside and sharing duties with another Team Lead you will be responsible for the clinical day to day leadership. The ability to work from either base dependant on service need.
The role will give you the opportunity to use your broad depth of knowledge and extensive experience of working with individuals who have severe and enduring mental illness.
This is a full-time post and covers Eastleigh and Eastleigh Southern Parish area.
Only open to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or Hampshire Hospitals FT.
Main duties of the job
The primary function of the role is to provide clinical leadership to the day-to-day operation of Eastleigh and Eastleigh Southern Parishes team.
You may carry a complex caseload of service users and deliver specialist interventions, sometimes joint working complex case with care coordinators.
To provide clinical leadership to the day-to-day operation of the clinical teams in both bases, monitoring workload, allocating duties and ensuring duties are discharged safely and effectively.
To provide expertise and guidance in complex and high-risk cases, in line with Trust policies and procedures.
To champion a culture based on principles of recovery, choice, and personalised care.
Providing a role model to the rest of the team.
To take proactive approach to caseload supervision.
To work closely with the other Team Lead and Team Manager, working flexible across the two bases.
Work collaboratively with another Team Lead and take the lead on agreed CMHT work, i.e. shared care, allocations, transfer of care, primary care.
Work collaboratively with the leadership team.
Build positive relationships with peers, other agencies to get the best outcome for service users.
The post requires extensive community mental health experience and knowledge, people management skills, resilience and a pragmatic flexible approach.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
Date posted
16 February 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£47,810 to £54,710 a year Based on full time hours
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
348-SSW-10482
Job locations
Desborough House
1 Desborough Road
Eastleigh
Hampshire
SO50 5NY
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Desborough House
1 Desborough Road
Eastleigh
Hampshire
SO50 5NY
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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