Team Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and compassionate leader to join the CPFT YOUnited partnership as a Team Manager. You will lead and supervise CAMHS clinical staff, champion high standards of care, and contribute to ongoing service development, ensuring children, young people, and their families are at the centre of everything. The role involves triaging non-crisis referrals, assessing risk, and making decisions about appropriate CAMHS pathways or signposting to other services. If you are passionate about high-quality care and eager to make a positive impact, this role offers a chance to make a real difference.
Key responsibilities
- Work in partnership with YOUnited Partner Team Managers, Clinical Leads, and the Service Manager to establish effective multi-disciplinary working within the YOUnited Referral Hub and wider CAMH Service.
- Liaise with partner agencies and stakeholders, including commissioners, to support access to appropriate emotional health, wellbeing, and mental health services for children and young people.
- Lead on the recruitment and supervision of staff, operating within available resources to achieve required targets.
- Lead on the establishment, implementation, and monitoring of policies and procedures.
- Provide advice and consultation on children and young people's mental health care to colleagues and partner agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines.
- Provide operational leadership for the planning and delivery of service, including triage, screening, and assessment functions of the Integrated Referral Hub.
Essential criteria
- HPC registered psychologist (clinical or counselling) or other registered practitioner (i.e. registered Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, or Speech and Language Therapist)
- Experience of staff management and evidence of application of managerial skills and knowledge.
- Evidence of successful partnership working with other professional groups.
- Evidence of delivering supervision and training.
- Evidence of effective working with service users.
- Sound knowledge of local safeguarding policies and procedures
- Knowledge of wider children's network of services.
- An understanding of policy and legislation relating to mental health and social care services
- Evidence of leadership ability, able to influence, involve and develop individuals and teams.
- Strong ability to innovate and implement change.
- Ability to use performance management information and demonstrate understanding of performance information.
Desirable criteria
- Post qualification continuing professional development, management and or leadership qualification.
- Experience of working within Child and Adolescence Mental Health Services.
- Experience of working with wider stakeholder groups.
- Experience in research and service evaluation work.
- Evidence of project management experience.
- Experience of managing feedback, investigation of complaints or similar.
- Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments.
- Ability to travel independently and in a timely manner across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to meet strict deadlines.
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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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Team Manager
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to bring your professional registration, experience, and leadership skills to a service that makes a real difference. We are looking for a motivated and compassionate leader with strong communication, organisational abilities, and a commitment to supporting and developing staff.
As a key member of the CPFT YOUnited partnership, you will lead and supervise CAMHS clinical staff, champion high standards of care, and contribute to ongoing service development. Our service continues to evolve, and we are dedicated to ensuring that Children, Young People and their Families remain at the centre of everything we do.
The YOUnited Hub processes non-crisis referrals of children and young people referred. Triaging each referral for risk and making decisions about whether referral meets the threshold for specialist CAMHS pathways, a trusted assessment within the "getting more help" CAMHS interventions pathways, or a "getting help" partners intervention pathway, or signposting the referral to the appropriate service or offer suitable advice working within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Referral Hub's policies and procedures.
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