Team Leader - Integrated Care Team
The closing date is 02 January 2026
Job summary
The Integrated Care Team (ICT) aims to make healthcare more preventative - this service supports service users with multiple long term or complex conditions to remain at home rather than going into hospital or residential care. Referrals are accepted from primary care, ambulance service, A&E and secondary care.
This role is within the Integrated Care Team in HPFT which is a nurse-led service offering specialist mental health support to wider primary care services within Hertfordshire Community Trust and local Primary Care Networks. ICT works alongside GP's, matrons, district nurses, OT's and physiotherapists to name a few but also supporting hospices, care homes, other primary level specialist services (such as heart failure nurses) and adult care services. We support by assessing, providing interventions, monitoring any medication changes, signposting or escalating where necessary for both physical and mental health needs.
Our referral criteria is not age restricted but based on frailty and home based care, supporting people with both physical and mental health needs at a primary care level and short term (up to 12 weeks). The team covers East and North Hertfordshire and based in 6 localities. Alongside mental health nurses the team has psychology and OT input.
Main duties of the job
To work in collaboration and to ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery. To work as part of the Mental Health Directorate to deliver the services required under the National Service Framework for Mental Health
To provide day -to- day management, leadership and supervision to a multi- disciplinary Integrated Care Team.
The Team Leader will manage nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and other staff, ensuring that the needs of service users are met through the effective deployment of these staff. They will also maintain a clinical role and/ or a caseload dependent on sector need.
The Team Leader will contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Details
Date posted
19 December 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£50,008 to £56,908 a year per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
367-SS-9962
Job locations
Various Base Site across Hertfordshire
Rosanne House
Welwyn Garden City
AL8 6HG
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Various Base Site across Hertfordshire
Rosanne House
Welwyn Garden City
AL8 6HG
Employer's website
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