Talking Therapies Deputy Team Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 02/10/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified and accredited CBT therapist with a PWP qualification to join the service as a deputy manager. The role involves supporting the Team Manager in project work and providing strong visible leadership. The post holder will also retain a small caseload, delivering high-level psychological interventions to clients with complex anxiety and depression-related problems. They will ensure staff are clear on expectations and promote a culture of empowerment and accountability for service improvement.
Key responsibilities
- Support Team Manager in project work and lead on projects as appropriate.
- Represent the service area at local meetings in the absence of the Team Manager.
- Provide strong visible leadership within area of responsibility.
- Ensure that all staff in the service area are clear about what is expected and are working together in successful teams.
- Promote a culture where staff feel empowered and accountable for service improvement at local level.
- Ensure that staff within service area are providing optimum quality of care in line with national healthcare standards.
Essential criteria
- A recorded qualification in High Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at Post Graduate Diploma Level
- Accreditation with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
- PWP Qualification
- Demonstrable knowledge and expertise regarding National and local developments in Primary Care Mental Health and Talking Therapies
- Clear understanding of statutory responsibilities under the Mental Health Act 1983, Clinical Governance, Child Protection, etc
- Specialist knowledge of all the evidence based models of psychological therapy, evidence for their use and detailed knowledge of common mental health problems
- Highly specialist theoretical and practical knowledge and skills working with mental health problems
- Ability to analyse and present complex information to colleagues
- Ability to use and understand performance information
- Can assist in the managing of people through change
- Ability to work with support in taking critical decisions
- Working independently and referring to line manager when necessary
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to concentrate for long periods of time and interpret complex information
- Substantial experience as a High Intensity Therapist within a Talking Therapies setting
- Supervisory experience in a Talking Therapies setting
- Experience of working in wider Mental Health settings
- A well-developed professional CPD portfolio demonstrating extensive clinical experience
- Requirement to drive a car
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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Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Talking Therapies Deputy Team Manager
The closing date is 02 October 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified and accredited CBT therapist with a PWP qualification, to join our service as a deputy manager.
The post holder will retain a small caseload and will deliver a high level of psychological interventions with designated clients who have a range of complex anxiety and depression related problems.
Main duties of the job
Support Team Manager in project work and lead on projects as appropriate.
Represent the service area at local meetings in the absence of the Team Manager.
Provide strong visible leadership within area of responsibility.
Ensure that all staff in the service area are clear about what is expected and are working together in successful teams to achieve in the Trust's vision.
Promote a culture where staff feel empowered and accountable for service improvement at local level.
In the absence of the Team Manager review the service area workforce to ensure it has the right numbers of the right level of knowledge skill and expertise skill to deliver services in the most effective and efficient way
Ensure that staff within service area are providing optimum quality of care in line with national healthcare standards including local healthcare targets and NICE guidance etc.
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