Community Team Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 21/09/2026
- Closes
- 05/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
Candidates needing sponsorship are encouraged to apply.
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“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.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role is for an experienced manager or leader in acute mental health to join a dynamic acute service in West Norfolk. You will provide strong operational leadership to a multidisciplinary team, ensuring safe, effective, and high-quality care for service users with acute mental health needs. The position involves overseeing day-to-day service delivery, managing performance, and leading a diverse team of practitioners. You will also monitor key performance indicators and drive improvements to enhance patient outcomes.
Essential criteria
- RMN, RLDN, Dip SW or Dip OT or equivalent, or HCPC registered
Desirable criteria
- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
- Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice
- Post-basic teaching qualification
- ILM certificate in management or equivalent
- Expereince
- 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
- Competent and effective treatment skills
- Care planning skills
- Competent assessment skills
- Effective analytical and decision-making skills.
- Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
- Build on/develop further knowledge of psychosocial interventions
- Build on/develop further specialist knowledge of health promotion and recovery
- An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines.
- Other
- Ability to travel.
- RMN, RLDN, Dip SW or Dip OT or equivalent, or HCPC registered
- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
- Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice
- Post-basic teaching qualification
- ILM certificate in management or equivalent
- Expereince
- 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
- Competent and effective treatment skills
- Care planning skills
- Competent assessment skills
- Effective analytical and decision-making skills.
- Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
- Build on/develop further knowledge of psychosocial interventions
- Build on/develop further specialist knowledge of health promotion and recovery
- An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines.
- Other
- Ability to travel.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 14d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Community Team Manager
The closing date is 05 October 2026
Job summary
Are you an experienced manager or leader within an acute mental health setting. Do you have experience or an interest in working with service users in crisis? Then we want to hear from you.
We are looking for a passionate, skilled professional from a Nursing, Social Work (with additional mental health training), or Occupational Therapy background.
We are excited to be recruiting a Community Team Manager to join our dynamic acute service in West Norfolk at a time of genuine transformation and innovation.
Our service is evolving as part of a wider commitment to improve our pathways for the service users we work with. This creates a unique opportunity to be part of shaping a modern, responsive mental health service for those experiencing acute mental health challenges.
If you're motivated to be part of a forward-thinking service and want to help shape the future of mental health care for those in acute need, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will provide strong operational leadership to a multidisciplinary team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality care to those with acute mental health needs and their families. You will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day service delivery, managing pe
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