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Band 7
Full-time, Flexible working

Community Team Manager

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS TrustChatterton House, Goodwins Road, King's Lynn, PE30 5PD, United Kingdom£49,387 - £56,515Closes 05/10/2026

At a glance

Band
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Posted
21/09/2026
Closes
05/10/2026

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Role summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Community Team Manager to join the West Norfolk Community Mental Health Team. The role involves providing operational leadership to a multidisciplinary team, ensuring safe, effective, and recovery-focused care for adults with complex mental health needs. The successful candidate will be responsible for team performance, workforce management, clinical governance, and service improvement, working collaboratively with partners to achieve positive outcomes for service users and carers.

Key responsibilities

  • Provide visible, compassionate and effective leadership for the West Norfolk Community Mental Health Team.
  • Lead and manage the day-to-day operational delivery of the Community Mental Health Team.
  • Support, supervise and develop a multidisciplinary workforce.
  • Ensure appropriate caseload management, workload allocation, capacity planning and workforce deployment.
  • Maintain robust clinical governance processes, including risk management, safeguarding, and incident reporting.
  • Lead service improvement and transformation initiatives, supporting the implementation of best practice and innovation.

Essential criteria

  • Able to demonstrate experience at a senior clinical level including staff management / supervision experience.
  • Evidence of providing leadership in a Mental Health care environment including service development.
  • Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip SW or Dip OT or equivalent, or HCPC registered

Desirable criteria

  • Previous experience of working with Complex case management.
  • Ongoing professional development working towards degree level

Useful to know

Band 7 pay context

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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Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Community Team Manager

The closing date is 05 October 2026

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Community Team Manager has arisen with the West Norfolk Community Mental Health Team, based at Chatterton House. The team is supported by two Community Team Managers so you will work closely with another Community Team Manger.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join our team. This roleprovides operational leadership to a multidisciplinary Community Mental Health Team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and recovery-focused care for adults with complex mental health needs. The post holder is responsible for team performance, workforce management, clinical governance, patient flow, risk management and service improvement, working collaboratively with internal and external partners to achieve positive outcomes for service users and carers. They will promote high standards of quality, staff wellbeing and continuous improvement in line with organisational objectives and professional standards.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to provide visible, compassionate and effective leadership for the West Norfolk Community Mental Health Team, maintaining a strong presence across the service and fostering a positive culture of engagement, accountability and continuous impro

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