CYPMHS Clinical Team Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 19/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves managing the children's community nursing team within the CYPMHS service, ensuring high standards of care delivery, referral management, and assessment of needs. The post holder will operate within an integrated multi-disciplinary team, requiring flexibility for travel. Key responsibilities include overseeing care programs, setting standards, and working across divisional sites to maintain service continuity. The role requires strong managerial and clinical decision-making skills.
Essential criteria
- Clinical professional registration for relevant qualification (BABCP/BPS/HCPC/NMC or other relevant accrediting body)
- Management qualification OR Willing to undertake a management qualification within 12 months
- Degree qualification relevant to field of practice
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Post graduate qualification OR demonstrable evidence of study at a higher level
Desirable criteria
- Experience in leading expansion/transformation of service/change management
- Experience/Knowledge
- Specialist expertise underpinned by theory
- Working knowledge of current community children's legislation
- Post registration experience in a senior role within children's wellbeing or complex needs services
- Line management responsibilities and experience.
- Able to demonstrate a history of leading on clinical care improvement initiative.
- Methodical approach to work with attention to detail.
- To be able to travel around the area of work
- Experience of staff performance managements
- Recent relevant experience of leading a team and providing care in a secure setting
- Experience of working within children's wellbeing services.
- Excellent Interpersonal skills
- Emotional resilience
- Ability to prioritise workload, work at a fast pace and meet deadlines.
- Ability to analyse problems, gather relevant information and exercise sound judgement in reaching the most appropriate conclusions.
- Good organisational skills, experienced in applying and implementing systems to manage workload.
- Able to manage and support staff through organisational change.
- Ability to manage own time effectively produce detailed reports/written work to a high standard and on time
- Ability to organise and plan ahead effectively.
- Ability to manage revenue budgets.
- Ability to deal with difficult issues sensitively and diplomatically
- Experience of leading staff/services through significant change
- Clinical professional registration for relevant qualification (BABCP/BPS/HCPC/NMC or other relevant accrediting body)
- Management qualification OR Willing to undertake a management qualification within 12 months
- Degree qualification relevant to field of practice
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Post graduate qualification OR demonstrable evidence of study at a higher level
- Experience in leading expansion/transformation of service/change management
- Experience/Knowledge
- Specialist expertise underpinned by theory
- Working knowledge of current community children's legislation
- Post registration experience in a senior role within children's wellbeing or complex needs services
- Line management responsibilities and experience.
- Able to demonstrate a history of leading on clinical care improvement initiative.
- Methodical approach to work with attention to detail.
- To be able to travel around the area of work
- Experience of staff performance managements
- Recent relevant experience of leading a team and providing care in a secure setting
- Experience of working within children's wellbeing services.
- Excellent Interpersonal skills
- Emotional resilience
- Ability to prioritise workload, work at a fast pace and meet deadlines.
- Ability to analyse problems, gather relevant information and exercise sound judgement in reaching the most appropriate conclusions.
- Good organisational skills, experienced in applying and implementing systems to manage workload.
- Able to manage and support staff through organisational change.
- Ability to manage own time effectively produce detailed reports/written work to a high standard and on time
- Ability to organise and plan ahead effectively.
- Ability to manage revenue budgets.
- Ability to deal with difficult issues sensitively and diplomatically
- Experience of leading staff/services through significant change
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
CYPMHS Clinical Team Manager
The closing date is 19 September 2026
Job summary
Please refer to JD/Person Specification for required qualifications for this post
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust currently has 2 full-time Clinical Team Manager vacancies within our CYPMHS service line. Warrington Mental Health Support Team (in schools) and Knowsley core community CYPMHS
The post holder will carry managerial responsibility for the children's community nursing team(CYPMHS), within the Community Care Division and be responsible for the overall standards which will include referral management and access, assessment of need and delivery of care within children's community nursing.
The post holder will operate as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team but be expected to be flexible in terms of travel to undertake duties.
The post-holder carries continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, and the setting of standards of care within that team.
The post holder will be aligned to CYP&F Children's Community Mental Health Services and may be required to work flexibly across all divisional sites to provide response to the service needs of the physical and mental health clinical teams providing cover as directed by the Service Manager to ens
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