NHS Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies Step 2 Clinical Team Leader
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Clinical Team Leader within the NHS Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies service, focusing on operational leadership at Step 2 or Step 3. The service is moving to a data-led, Place-based model, expanding clinical specialisms and engaging in research with the University of East Anglia. The position involves collaborative work with the Senior Leadership Team, contributing to service development, and providing managerial supervision to staff. The role requires a blend of remote and face-to-face work, with attendance at team hubs in Dereham or Norwich.
Essential criteria
- Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Qualification/Or Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and BABCP Accredited. Or Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and BACP Accredited. Or Nursing degree or equivalent or Dip OT or Core Profession/ Or Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and BACP Accredited /Or Nursing degree or equivalent or Dip OT or Core Profession
Desirable criteria
- ILM certificate in management or equivalent
- Experienc e
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment
- Ability to work under pressure and being able to prioritise workload demands.
- Experience of working within a primary care setting.
- Effective analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
- Competent assessment skills Effective analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
- Ability to travel independently across Norfolk and Suffolk.
- Effective analytical, problem solving and decision making skills.
- Effective analytical, problem solving and decision making skills.
- Able to effectively prioritise own work load and delegate appropriately and ability to travel independently across Norfolk and Suffolk.
- Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Qualification/Or Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and BABCP Accredited. Or Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and BACP Accredited. Or Nursing degree or equivalent or Dip OT or Core Profession/ Or Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and BACP Accredited /Or Nursing degree or equivalent or Dip OT or Core Profession
- ILM certificate in management or equivalent
- Experienc e
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment
- Ability to work under pressure and being able to prioritise workload demands.
- Experience of working within a primary care setting.
- Effective analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
- Competent assessment skills Effective analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
- Ability to travel independently across Norfolk and Suffolk.
- Effective analytical, problem solving and decision making skills.
- Effective analytical, problem solving and decision making skills.
- Able to effectively prioritise own work load and delegate appropriately and ability to travel independently across Norfolk and Suffolk.
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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Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies Step 2 Clinical Team Leader
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest providers of Talking Therapies services in the country. We are currently seeking a Team Leader to support the operational leadership of the service, with a focus at Step 2 or Step 3 of the service.
This is a particularly positive time to join us, following contract renewal, as the service moves to a data-led, Place-based model, taking provision closer to the local population that it serves while developing an already broad portfolio of clinical specialisms, including perinatal, trauma and long-term conditions.
Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies is research active and is working closely with the University of East Anglia, a UK Top 25 university (Complete University Guide 2025) as both a provider of training for mental health professionals and a research partner as we build our portfolio of projects. We are also working with local acute healthcare providers to this end, embedding our therapeutic staff within wider systems of health. The service has excellent access to ongoing training and specialist supervision.
We are committed to quality through external scrutiny and have recently joined the Accreditation Programme for Psychological Therapies (AP
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