Prison Mental Health Team Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves managing and developing an established prison mental health team within HMP Haverigg, a CAT D prison working predominantly with sex offenders. The manager will provide strong leadership, oversee day-to-day operations, and ensure high professional standards in patient care. The team offers various interventions including trauma therapy and EMDR. The successful candidate will collaborate with other healthcare providers and criminal justice services.
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration with appropriate body in healthcare or social work.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Certificate in teaching & assessing in Clinical Practice as appropriate to own profession.
- Recognised sign-off mentor or equivalent for students (within agreed timescale).
- Leadership or management qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willing to undertake within agreed timescale.
- Clinical Supervisor
- [contact details removed] literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
- Significant experience working with people with complex mental ill health or learning disabilities in a community setting.
- Significant experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Significant experience of providing clinical supervision, mentoring and teaching to healthcare professionals and students.
- Demonstrable leadership or management experience
- Significant role in quality improvement activities
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in health and justice services
- Use of the Trust's Quality Improvement system
- Significant evidenced based knowledge to post-graduate level equivalent, of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
- Good understanding of clinical governance and its application in practice.
- Detailed understanding of Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.
- Detailed understanding of Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
- Good understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act) and its application in practice
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Research and development methodology
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
- The Trust's quality Improvement System (QIS)
- Budget Management and Financial Standing Instructions
- HR policies and procedures
- Manage a team effectively
- Manage change effectively
- Provide effective leadership
- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Work positively and collaboratively in partnership with external agencies
- Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
- Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
- Use approved breakaway techniques
- Write reports and policies
- Undertake basic statistical analysis
- Current professional registration with appropriate body in healthcare or social work.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Certificate in teaching & assessing in Clinical Practice as appropriate to own profession.
- Recognised sign-off mentor or equivalent for students (within agreed timescale).
- Leadership or management qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willing to undertake within agreed timescale.
- Clinical Supervisor
- [contact details removed] literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
- Significant experience working with people with complex mental ill health or learning disabilities in a community setting.
- Significant experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Significant experience of providing clinical supervision, mentoring and teaching to healthcare professionals and students.
- Demonstrable leadership or management experience
- Significant role in quality improvement activities
- Experience working in health and justice services
- Use of the Trust's Quality Improvement system
- Significant evidenced based knowledge to post-graduate level equivalent, of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
- Good understanding of clinical governance and its application in practice.
- Detailed understanding of Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.
- Detailed understanding of Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
- Good understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act) and its application in practice
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Research and development methodology
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
- The Trust's quality Improvement System (QIS)
- Budget Management and Financial Standing Instructions
- HR policies and procedures
- Manage a team effectively
- Manage change effectively
- Provide effective leadership
- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Work positively and collaboratively in partnership with external agencies
- Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
- Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
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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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Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Prison Mental Health Team Manager
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
Would you like to be instrumental in managing and developing an established prison mental health team within the H&J service in HMP Haverigg? This is an exciting opportunity to join the Mental Health Team in HMP Haverigg as a Mental Health Team Manager.
HMP Haverigg is a CAT D prison, working pre-dominantly with sex-offenders. The prison has just received excellent outcomes from both the HMIP, and the CQC. The mental health team is well-established, offers a variety of interventions to the client group, including Trauma therapy, EMDR, groupwork. We are innovative, compassionate and supportive of each other, working for a great team, in a wonderful part of the country.
The team manager will be expected to lead by example, providing strong leadership while being accessible to staff. They will be flexible in their approach to managing the day-to-day operational aspects of the service
We are looking for either a clinical or non-clinical Team Manager to join our expanding service. If you do not hold a professional qualification then you will require substantial experience of working in either a healthcare or criminal justice setting with leadership experience.
Main duties of the job
Team managers will work in partnership with other
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