Team Leader: Sponsorship Available

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinical healthcare professional looking to influence and shape community service delivery in a strategic leadership role. While predominantly non-clinical, the position requires a strong clinical background and a proven track record of delivering high-quality patient care, alongside substantial experience in leading teams, managing services, overseeing budgets, and driving workforce planning across Community Core and Specialist Services.

Working in partnership with Clinical Leads, the Service Manager, and the Locality Matron, you will play a pivotal role in leading service transformation, driving innovation, and implementing improvements to systems, processes, and models of care. You will help ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality commissioned community services that meet the needs of patients and communities.

We welcome applications from Allied Health Professionals with relevant experience and transferable skills.

The successful AHP applicant will have access to continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities and professional networks to support ongoing professional development and professional registration requirements

Main duties of the job

Core Functions of the Community Team Leader role:

  • A duty to ensure that managed staff undertake all relevant statutory and mandatory training in accordance with the Trust Mandatory Training Policy, as well as role specific competency training, and continuing professional development.
  • Responsible for the identification and management of clinical/organisational risks within their area of responsibility through their involvement with a comprehensive risk assessment, action planning and monitoring process.
  • Responsible for appropriate key performance indicators, including workforce and service delivery performance and accountability measures
  • Ensure responsive recruitment processes and facilitate workforce access to health and wellbeing resources, to ensure effective recruitment and retention of staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • oLive register or equivalent professional registration relevant to the post
  • oPostgraduate degree 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:
  • oGood IT skills e.g. knowledge of word and excel
  • oEvidence of project work that has had a positive impact on service delivery

Desirable

  • oAccredited leadership/management qualification or ability to demonstrate these at an advanced level
  • oKnowledge of managing delegated budgets

Experience

Essential

  • o Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the service area
  • Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level

Desirable

  • Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations
  • A breadth of professional practice including specialising in the field where the post is held

Skills

Essential

  • oAble to demonstrate effective communication skills with patients, carers and at all levels of staff/managers in the organisation

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: 29 September 2026

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