Community Team Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced manager or leader in community mental health, specifically for Older Adults. You will provide clinical and operational leadership to a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality care delivery and managing performance. The position involves leading and developing a diverse team, fostering a positive culture, and collaborating with stakeholders for integrated care planning. You will also monitor KPIs, support quality assurance, and drive service improvements.
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.
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Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Community Team Manager
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an experienced manager or leader within a community mental health setting. Do you have experience or an interest in working with Older Adults? Then we want to hear from you.
We are looking for passionate, skilled professionals from aNursing, Social Work (with additional mental health training), or Occupational Therapy background.
We are excited to be recruiting a Community Team Manager to join our Older Persons service at a time of genuine transformation and innovation.
Our service is evolving as part of a wider transformation agenda. This creates a unique opportunity to be part of shaping a modern, responsive mental health service for Older Adults. This post includes our Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), our Intensive Older Person Service (IOPS) and also supports the Memory Assessment and Treatment Service (MATS)
If you're motivated to be part of a forward-thinking service and want to help shape the future of mental health care for older adults, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will provide strong clinical and operational leadership to a multidisciplinary community team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality care to older adults. You will be responsible for overseeing day-t
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