Deputy Team Manager - CMHT
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/09/2026
- Closes
- 05/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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“Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This is an opportunity for a Deputy Team Manager within a Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) in Stockport. The role involves providing specialist mental health care to residents with severe and enduring mental health conditions. You will support the team manager in coordinating the CMHT, ensuring cohesive work and objective achievement. The post-holder will also manage a reduced caseload of mental health service users with complex needs, providing holistic assessment, interventions, risk assessments, and care plans.
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification Social Work / Mental Health Nursing / Occupational Therapy
- Registration with HCPC / NMC
- Short courses and / or experience to post graduate diploma level.
Desirable criteria
- Accredited skills based training
- Training related to management, supervision and staff development
- Educated to degree level
- Mentorship / practice leadership qualification
- Psychosocial intervention post registration qualification or to be able to demonstrate clinical competence in PSI/CBTFI Interventions
- Proven post registration experience working in community mental health services
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with services user with Psychosis and severe/complex common mental illness
- Experience of coordinating complex packages of care
- Experience in Child and Adult Safeguarding
- Providing Supervision
- Leading / coordinating multi-disciplinary teamwork
- Staff management
- Managing Budgets
- Service development/ managing change
- Knowledge of national legislation and guidance
- Knowledge of evidence based / contemporary mental health practice
- Ability to identify and co-ordinate effective risk assessment and management
- Awareness of a range of PSI and appropriate psychological therapies
- Knowledge of NICE guidance applicable to those with psychosis and schizophrenia
- Awareness of issues surrounding mental health care
- Skills and Abilities
- Skills in Assessment / Care-Management and Planning
- Experience / skills working in partnership with a broad range of colleagues, service users, and carers
- Skills in a range of evidence based practice
- Demonstration of sound professional judgement and communication skills (verbal and written)
- Ability to manage effectively under pressure
- Ability to supervise staff, set standards, monitor performance and promote staff development
- Excellent organisational, problem solving / prioritisation skills.
- Awareness of and commitment to, anti-discriminatory practice and equal opportunities
- Leadership skills / abilities
- Work Related Citcumstances
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
- Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
- Flexible working
- Education/Qualifications
- Professional qualification Social Work / Mental Health Nursing / Occupational Therapy
- Registration with HCPC / NMC
- Short courses and / or experience to post graduate diploma level.
- Accredited skills based training
- Training related to management, supervision and staff development
- Educated to degree level
- Mentorship / practice leadership qualification
- Psychosocial intervention post registration qualification or to be able to demonstrate clinical competence in PSI/CBTFI Interventions
- Proven post registration experience working in community mental health services
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with services user with Psychosis and severe/complex common mental illness
- Experience of coordinating complex packages of care
- Experience in Child and Adult Safeguarding
- Providing Supervision
- Leading / coordinating multi-disciplinary teamwork
- Staff management
- Managing Budgets
- Service development/ managing change
- Knowledge of national legislation and guidance
- Knowledge of evidence based / contemporary mental health practice
- Ability to identify and co-ordinate effective risk assessment and management
- Awareness of a range of PSI and appropriate psychological therapies
- Knowledge of NICE guidance applicable to those with psychosis and schizophrenia
- Awareness of issues surrounding mental health care
- Skills and Abilities
- Skills in Assessment / Care-Management and Planning
- Experience / skills working in partnership with a broad range of colleagues, service users, and carers
- Skills in a range of evidence based practice
- Demonstration of sound professional judgement and communication skills (verbal and written)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Pennine Care NHS FT
Deputy Team Manager - [contact details removed]
The closing date is 05 October 2026
Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for a deputy team manager within a Community Mental Health, providing specialist mental health care to the population of Stockport. The Secondary Care CMHT support residents with severe and enduring mental health conditions. population we serve.
This an exciting time for Stockport CMHT. We are currently undergoing a transformation within our service as part of the National Transformations of community services and the local Living Well developments. It is an opportunity to be part of our service development, with planned investment in our staff and new role development.
The CMHT work with people aged 16 and over with severe and enduring mental health and social care needs.
In this role you will be responsible for supporting the CMHT team manager in managing and coordinating the Community Mental Health Team and ensuring that the team works cohesively and meets its objectives in the most effective and efficient way,
The post-holder will act as a named worker for a reduced caseload of mental health service users who have complex needs.
providing holistic assessment, interventions, risk assessments and care plans.
Main duties of the job
To support the team manager in ensuring that care is delivered in accordance with the Pr
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