Team Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role is for a Team Manager within the Older Persons Community Mental Health Team in Stockton-on-Tees. The successful candidate will provide operational management, ensuring high professional standards and patient care. They will act as a role model, work with external partners, and contribute to the development of future NHS 24-hour Neighbourhood centres. The position requires independent travel across the service.
Key responsibilities
- Provide operational management of the MHSOP Community Mental Health Team.
- Ensure the highest professional standards and attitudes towards patient care are maintained.
- Act as a role model and promote the service.
- Work with external partners and system-wide partnerships.
- Contribute to the development of future NHS 24-hour Neighbourhood centres.
- Manage a team of dedicated staff to support their ongoing development and identify training needs.
Essential criteria
- Post Graduate Diploma in leadership or a subject area relevant to the area of practice or be willing to work towards and achieve within the first 2 years
- Hold a relevant degree (or degree equivalent) and have equivalent experience to that of Post Graduate Diploma level such as significant experience of working as a band 6 ( or equivalent Band 6 or above) experience as outlined below
- Significant experience of operational management (including leading and managing people, performance and service development)
- Working collaboratively with others
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Evidence of delivering management supervision
- Developing, maintaining and auditing standards of practice
- Quality Improvement activities
- Inter-agency and partnership working
- Knowledge of current issues relating to health needs of patients in the field of practice, regionally and nationally
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Governance and its application in practice
- Working knowledge of the legal framework and statutory obligations under the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation
- Experience of working within a range of services, including inpatient and/or community settings
- Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Demonstrates effective Leadership and Management of a Team
- Demonstrate leadership qualities and motivational skills
- Demonstrate effective communication, organisational and administrative skills
- Write reports
- Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
- Use approved techniques in physical intervention if required in appropriate clinical area.
- Demonstrate recovery-focussed practice
Desirable criteria
- Project and change management
- Delivering training and education to multi professional groups
- Experience of undertaking or participating in research
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.
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Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Team Manager
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Team Manager within the Older Persons Community Mental Health Team in Stockton-on-Tees.
There is an expectation that the successful candidate will travel independently across the service.
You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.
Main duties of the job
The Team Manager will provide operational management of the MHSOP Community Mental Health Team including accountability for ensuring the highest professional standards and attitudes towards the care of patients are maintained and delivered at all times in accordance with evidence-based practice.
The successful candidate will act as a role model and will be essential in promoting the service. The role will include working with external partners and system-wide partnership. The role will include development of the future NHS 24-hour Neighbourhood centres, building upon Community Mental Health Framework principles and the localised Dementia Strategy.
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