Team Manager: Sponsorship Available

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Do you have exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with patients, carers, relatives, and colleagues–whilst remaining sensitive and empathic?

Do you take a patient-focused approach and feel confident managing challenging situations calmly and professionally?

Are you someone who thrives as part of a supportive, collaborative team?

If you’ve answered yes, we would love to hear from you.

Mendip Community Mental Health Services are looking to recruit a Band 7 Mental Health Team Manager to join our dynamic and evolving service. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the ongoing integration of primary and secondary community mental health services, contributing to service transformation while supporting the day-to-day delivery of high-quality care.

Whether you are an experienced leader or an aspiring manager ready to take the next step in your career, this role offers a fantastic platform for development, impact, and growth.

Main duties of the job

As a Team Manager, you will:

  • Provide effective leadership and operational management to a multidisciplinary community mental health team
  • Support the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centred care in line with national and local standards
  • Lead, motivate and develop staff, fostering a positive team culture and continuous improvement mindset
  • Manage day-to-day service delivery, including staffing, caseload oversight, and performance monitoring
  • Work collaboratively with clinical leads, partner organisations, and stakeholders to support service integration
  • Ensure robust risk management, safeguarding, and clinical governance processes are embedded in practice
  • Contribute to service transformation initiatives, driving innovation and improving patient outcomes
  • Maintain strong communication with patients, families, and carers, ensuring their voices shape service delivery

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered professional
  • Educated to Degree level or equivalent

Desirable

  • Management qualification or experience

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working across organisational boundaries in a health care setting
  • Experience of providing high quality effective services within resource limits
  • Experience of delivering services within a performance management framework and of developing and implementing action plans in order to meet specific national and local targets
  • Experience of directly managing staff and pay and non pay budgets

Desirable

  • Experience of delivering care in a community setting and providing a range of diverse services
  • Experience of supporting staff and developing staff members and active performance management

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Ability to travel round Trust area to fulfil the requirements of the role.

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: 13 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit somersetft.tal.net.