Wellbeing Team Leader
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 14/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and passionate Team Lead to join the Wellbeing Suffolk Service, which is expanding. The role involves leading a team across Step 2 and Step 3 interventions, providing psychological, employment, and community support. The successful candidate will have a strong clinical background in mental health and will be expected to work on-site 2-3 days per week. The service offers robust supervision and leadership development opportunities.
Key responsibilities
- Line Management of staff
- Care pathway monitoring - monitoring of waiting lists etc
- Balancing workloads
- Dealing with HR issues / complaints / concerns
- Projects
- Working within senior leadership team
- Liaising with staff from inside and outside of our service
- Patient contact
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
- 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
- Effective analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
Desirable criteria
- ILM certificate in management or equivalent
- Experience of working within a primary care setting.
- PMA Training
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 6d ago · Closes in 8d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Wellbeing Team Leader
The closing date is 14 September 2026
Job summary
Due to a recent service expansion, we are able to offer another Team Lead role in the Wellbeing Suffolk Service. This post will be working across Step 2 and Step 3. To best work in the existing team, post holders will need to be passionate, motivated, and inspirational leaders with a real drive to support the service goals.
The Team Lead position provides an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual with a strong clinical background in mental health and a good understanding of the challenges of working in Primary Care as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist or Mental Health Practitioner.
As a service, we offer a range of psychological, employment and community interventions across Suffolk. At Step 2 this includes high volume evidence-based practice in the form of one-to-one guided self- help, predominantly delivered by telephone, psycho-educational groups and computerised CBT. At Step 3 we offer individual and group CBT, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Couples Therapy for Depression, Counselling for Depression and EMDR.
Youwill be offered robust supervision and access to the NSFT Leadership Academy, providing opportunities for Coaching, Mentorship and Leadership training. The Service h
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