# Team Manager

**Company**: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Orpington, Kent
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £55524.00 to £62652.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9277-26-1201?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/team-manager-6b7c1f4e-ebe/

## Description

The post holder is responsible for providing strong operational leadership to a multidisciplinary clinical team within the East ADAPT team in Bromley.

The role ensures the delivery of a high-quality, efficient, and patient-focused adult mental health service, operating within available resources and in line with Trust values.

A central aspect of the role is ensuring that services are comprehensive, adaptable, and recovery-focused, with meaningful involvement of service users and carers embedded across the care pathway.

The post holder ensures that clinical activity, team performance, risk management, and service standards are maintained to a high level while promoting a positive team culture and supporting continuous improvement in the locality.

**Main duties of the job**

- Lead the day-to-day operation of the multidisciplinary team, overseeing referral screening, assessments, treatment planning, and smooth patient flow through the service.

- Manage, supervise, and support staff, ensuring regular supervision, performance monitoring, development planning, and clear communication across the team.

- Hold and manage a clinical caseload, including complex cases, offering guidance and clinical oversight to colleagues to ensure safe and effective care.

- Embed strong risk management practices, ensuring the team responds appropriately to safeguarding concerns, serious incidents, complaints, and learning opportunities.

- Oversee resource and budget management, ensuring services are delivered cost-effectively while maintaining clinical quality and compliance with Trust policies and operational standards.

- Lead on recruitment and workforce development, contributing to service planning, team culture, and continuous improvement across the locality.

- Promote equality, diversity, inclusion, and patient-centred values, ensuring the service is responsive, accessible, and aligned with the Trust's values and strategic priorities.

**Benefits**

- The Trust offers a range of benefits, including Agenda for Change pay scheme, Band 7 salary (£55,524 to £62,652 a year pa inc).

**Person Specification**

- Relevant professional qualification (e.g., RMN, OT, Social Worker, Psychologist).

- Educated to degree level or equivalent.

- Educated to master's level or able to demonstrate equivalent relevant experience.

- Significant experience and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice across varied settings.

- Experience of providing professional support, supervision, and motivating staff.

- Experience of managing staff and understanding Health and Social Care governance.

**Skills / Abilities / Knowledge**

- Ability to communicate complex and emotive information effectively with staff, service users, carers, and other stakeholders.

- Strong understanding of integrated governance and management of clinical and non-clinical risks.

- Skilled in managing challenging situations, including responding appropriately to aggression.

For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/).

## Skills

### Required
- clinical leadership
- risk management
- safeguarding
- budget management
- recruitment
- workforce development
- patient-centred values

### Nice to have
- additional leadership or management-related study
- post-qualification training relevant to adult mental health practice
- evidence of continued professional development relevant to operational or clinical leadership

---

Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9277-26-1201?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)
