Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing Degree or equivalent, Dip SW, or Dip OT, or equivalent, or HCPC registered
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Flexible working hours can be considered)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-CEN7427433
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 80 St Stephens Rd
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 gross per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Team Manager
Band 7
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
Please note, NSFT uses tools to screen any applications generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Job overview
Are you an experienced manager or leader within a community mental health setting, do you have experience or an interest in working with Looked after and Adopted children and their families and carers? Then we want to hear from you.
As a Community Team manager working in the CFYP Looked After and Adopted Children’s Team you will be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team supporting the mental health and wellbeing of some of the most vulnerable young people. As well as the exciting opportunity to manage the CFYP LAAC service this role has a further peripatetic component, allowing for the successful applicant to gain a wide range of experience across the CFYP service line.
We work closely alongside Social Care and the young people’s carers, particularly supporting those young people who are experiencing attachment or trauma related difficulties as a result of their past history.
Main duties of the job
To ensure safe caring, responsive, high quality service is provided to service users, their families and carers within the clinical environment by ensuring compliance with Statutory and Regulatory requirements and Trust Policies, pathways, standard operating procedures and protocols.
They will allocate work accordingly within the team to ensure effective and efficient use of resources to ensure service users and carers needs are met, and monitor the team’s contribution and performance to the overall objectives of the Trust.
The Community Team Manager will provide professional governance and leadership within their area
Working for our organisation
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Benefits included with this role are:-
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN, Dip SW, or Dip OT, or HCPC registered
- Experience in working within Community Mental Health Services
Desirable criteria
- Ongoing professional development, Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice - Post basic teaching qualification - ILM certificate in management or equivalent
Expereince
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate experience at a senior clinical level including staff management / supervision experience
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of providing leadership in a Mental Health care environment including service development
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working with Complex case management
Skills
Essential criteria
- Competent and effective treatment skills
- Care planning skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Competent assessment skills
- Establish performance management team structures and systems
- Ability to prioritise own workload
- Competent IT skills and service development
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
- Build on/develop further knowledge of psychosocial interventions and their appropriateness
- Build on/develop further specialist knowledge of health and promotion
- An understanding of policies and guidelines both local and national
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Neil Toplis
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07443293730
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