CAMHS YMM MHST Team Manager- Stroud locality: Sponsorship Available

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Team manager for Stroud locality

Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment

Do you have excellent partnership working skills and managerial experience?

Are you flexible and adaptable to change and able to adjust services and delivery over time and in response to feedback?

Are you able to lead, inspire and motivate others to work with you?

If so, we would like to hear from you.

YMM in Gloucestershire continues to develop Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) working with over 150 primary and secondary schools. To increase access to mental health interventions for children and young people aged 5-18 years. New investment has seen the service expand and an exciting opportunity has arisen to apply for a Team Manager role.

This is a stimulating and challenging role with opportunity to be part of the Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in Gloucestershire and join the national programme transforming the way children and young people access mental health support and interventions.

MHST’s are multi agency teams lead by a Team Manager and comprising of qualified Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioners (SMHP), Talk Well + Counsellors (a local charity) and Band 5 Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP).This Team Manager role will oversee one of the localities, Cotswold, Stroud & Dursley, working closely with the other team managers

Main duties of the job

  • Be responsible and lead the day-to-day management and line management to practitioners within MHST’s which will include trainee band 4 and band 5 EMHP’s, band 6 and band 7 Mental Health Practice Leads.
  • Be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of a range of operational processes within the team such as referral and case allocation, caseload management, regular review and proactive monitoring of intervention within the MHST’s including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated.
  • Demonstrate commitment to ensuring routine outcome monitoring is embedded within the development of the MHST’s in order to demonstrate improvements in outcomes for children, young people and parents/carers.
  • Be able to plan and deliver against key milestones.
  • Provide day to day operational management and leadership to the Mental Health Support Teams.
  • Demonstrate enhanced competence in operational decision making.
  • Collect and collate data and information effectively for the purpose of audit, and service performance.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NMC registration or Equivalent
  • Valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use
  • Evidence of formal post graduate learning within a relevant CAMHS field or skill to Masters level
  • Clinical supervisor qualification/training

Desirable

  • Formal Teaching and Assessing Certificate / Qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Mental health experience with children and young people
  • Demonstrate extensive experience and expertise regarding delivering evidence based/best practice clinical interventions within CYPS or related services and/or adult mental health settings.

Desirable

  • Management experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 22 November 2026

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