Team Leader – Hull CMHT

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you a Band 7 Mental Health Nurse looking to change roles or a Band 6 Nurse with mental health nursing experience seeking a promotional post?

We are looking for a qualified Mental Health Nurse Team Leader to work within a large transformed community mental health service to work with our existing leadership team. You will expected to be accountable in your own area of responsibility but will also have some shared responsibilities and will be required to provide strong and effective management and organisational leadership to ensure the delivery of safe evidenced based clinical intervention and practice.

This is an opportunity to be part of a service that is well underway with the CMHT Transformation programme and will continue this work as part of the new 10 Year plan. You will form part of the overall Leadership Team and have support from 9 Clinical leads, the Service Manager and Senior Clinical Lead and General manager.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities:

Operational Leadershipo To support the Service Manager, Senior Clinical Lead and other colleagues within the service area.o Provide operational line management and supervision to allocated staff.o Ensure staff receive annual performance appraisals aligned with the Trust’s policy and strategy.

Analytical and Judgement Skillso Contribute to identifying/reviewing/re-designing services in response to user need, ensuring a safe, high-quality level of service is maintained.o Manage complex, challenging and changing situations, obtains, analyses, and interprets information for key performance indicators/outcome.

Planning and Organisingo To manage a number of complex activities e.g., the demands placed on the service area, staffing levels, data to inform and support service provision.o Ensure the team have procedures and systems to support the delivery of a high standard of service.

Policy and Service Developmento Accountable for ensuring that practice and policy changes are implemented.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential

  • Live register or equivalent professional registration relevant to the post
  • Postgraduate or equivalent or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience in service development, managing change, leading and managing staff, plus specialist training and short courses to Diploma level relevant to area of practice:
  • Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service areas
  • Hold a recognised non-medical prescribing qualification, ( if required to do so)

Desirable

  • Working knowledge of Trust IT systems if relevant to own area of work
  • Detailed understanding of all current legislation relevant to the service area

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
  • Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level

Desirable

  • Development of expert leadership/management skills

Skills and Competencies

Essential

  • Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
  • Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity

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: 2 August 2026

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