Team Leader Retreat West
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
“Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role is for an experienced registered mental health professional to lead the Retreat service in Weymouth. The Team Leader will guide a multidisciplinary team, including lived-experience peer specialists, to deliver person-centred support to individuals experiencing self-defined crisis. Responsibilities include day-to-day leadership, fostering a compassionate culture, and ensuring high-quality, recovery-focused care. The role also involves contributing to service development and maintaining relationships with stakeholders.
Essential criteria
- Registered health practitioner to degree level supplemented by minimum PG Dip (120 credits) plus working towards MA / MSc or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
- Evidence of recent evidence based professional development in an up to date portfolio
- Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
- Broad clinical and multi-agency knowledge Skills in co-production and partnership working
- Knowledge and understanding of the Trust's and Dorset Mental Health Forums Strategic approach
- Knowledge and understanding of legislation relevant to area of clinical practice
- JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE
- Experience as a registered practitioner at Band 6 level as above
- Demonstrates specialist expertise and knowledge underpinned by theory acquired through CPD in relation to Recovery approached clinical assessment, treatment and evaluation
- Evidence of effective Risk management and Person focused Crisis Support skills
- Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting clinical governance objectives
- Evidence of proactive involvement in the supervision and development of members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of health policy and its application in practice
- Evidence of education and training in practice
- Experience of interdisciplinary working and working with Peer Specialists
- Practical experience of facilitating and managing change
- Able to demonstrate highly developed physical skills where accuracy is important such as in the manipulation of fine tools and materials for patient interventions.
- MANAGERIAL/SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE
- Previous clinical people management experience
- Able to act as a clinical supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Managing and supporting Peer Staff
- FINANCE/RESOURCES
- Able to promote the best use of available resources in the pursuit of quality service provision ensuring a safe environment
- Experience of budget management.
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/RESOURCES
- Confident in the use of computer systems, spread sheets, databases, data collection and coordination, word processing and report writing.
- Experience of electronic patient / service user record systems, data entry and reporting
- Knowledge skills and training
- Registered health practitioner to degree level supplemented by minimum PG Dip (120 credits) plus working towards MA / MSc or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
- Evidence of recent evidence based professional development in an up to date portfolio
- Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
- Broad clinical and multi-agency knowledge Skills in co-production and partnership working
- Knowledge and understanding of the Trust's and Dorset Mental Health Forums Strategic approach
- Knowledge and understanding of legislation relevant to area of clinical practice
- JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE
- Experience as a registered practitioner at Band 6 level as above
- Demonstrates specialist expertise and knowledge underpinned by theory acquired through CPD in relation to Recovery approached clinical assessment, treatment and evaluation
- Evidence of effective Risk management and Person focused Crisis Support skills
- Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting clinical governance objectives
- Evidence of proactive involvement in the supervision and development of members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of health policy and its application in practice
- Evidence of education and training in practice
- Experience of interdisciplinary working and working with Peer Specialists
- Practical experience of facilitating and managing change
- Able to demonstrate highly developed physical skills where accuracy is important such as in the manipulation of fine tools and materials for patient interventions.
- MANAGERIAL/SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE
- Previous clinical people management experience
- Able to act as a clinical supervisor
- [contact details removed] Peer Staff
- FINANCE/RESOURCES
- Able to promote the best use of available resources in the pursuit of quality service provision ensuring a safe environment
- Experience of budget management.
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/RESOURCES
- Confident in the use of computer systems, spread sheets, databases, data collection and coordination, word processing and report writing.
- Experience of electronic patient / service user record systems, data entry and reporting
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £29,632 – £33,909 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Team Leader Retreat West
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an experienced registered mental health professional ready to lead and inspire? Our Retreat service in Weymouth is looking for a Team Leader to guide a compassionate, multidisciplinary team delivering person-centred support to people experiencing self-defined crisis.
Delivered in partnership with Dorset Mental Health Forum as part of Access Mental Health Services, the Retreat provides a safe, therapeutic space from 4pm-12am, seven days a week. The service is rooted in recovery-focused practice, supporting people to understand their experiences, build on their strengths and develop meaningful coping strategies.
As Retreat Team Leader, you will be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the service, leading a diverse team of lived-experience peer specialists and registered mental health practitioners. You will champion a culture of openness, compassion and reflective practice, where lived experience and clinical expertise are equally valued, and where co-production and collaboration are central to how the service operates.
You will uphold and actively advocate for the values of the partnership, ensuring care is safe, inclusive and dignified, and responsive to the impact of social inequality on mental health. You will also play a
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