Job overview

We are seeking a motivated and skilled Team Manager to lead our Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) within the Spalding locality. The role focuses on managing day-to-day operations, providing effective leadership, and supporting the continued development of a multi-disciplinary team that delivers care to working-age adults with complex mental health needs.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the Service Manager in the effective day-to-day operation of the multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). As part of the Spalding locality mental health provision, the role will work closely with the Integrated Place-Based Team Senior Mental Health Practitioner (SMHP) to ensure a coordinated and seamless service for individuals accessing care.

Key responsibilities include:

Embedding recovery-focused clinical pathways to deliver safe, effective, and high-quality care for people with mental health needs, in line with Trust policies, procedures, and values.

Providing clear leadership to the team, while monitoring service performance and quality to ensure strong governance and quality assurance processes that support safe, high-standard service delivery.

Promoting multi-disciplinary collaboration and maintaining effective communication with both internal teams and external partners, ensuring continuity of care and smooth transitions across services. This includes enabling joined-up, timely, and appropriate interventions for service users.

Undertaking line management responsibilities, including supporting supervision and appraisal processes, fostering staff development, and promoting team wellbeing.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.