Team Leader - Community Mental Health

Role Summary

The Mansfield Local Mental Health Team (LMHT) are looking to recruit a compassionate and highly skilled Team Leader to join the LMHT management team.

• Work in collaboration with the Clinical Lead and the broader LMHT workforce to lead, monitor, and evaluate team practice, driving toward clinical excellence.
• Provide managerial supervision and support the multi‑disciplinary team to ensure delivery of high‑quality, safe, patient‑centred care, providing senior leadership within the service.
• Ensure effective delivery of evidence‑based practice in accordance with Trust systems, policies, and procedures, and ensure all performance‑management and governance arrangements are in place.
• Execute LMHT service transformation in line with the NHS Long Term Plan, supporting the evolution of pathway interventions with community mental services and embedding, implementing, and monitoring new ways of working.
• Demonstrate active clinical and managerial leadership skills, providing support, education, and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals.

The LMHTs during our transformation are at an exciting time; the right candidate will be involved in shaping this new way of working. The Mid Notts LMHT prides itself on providing evidence‑based care to service users and their support network while fostering a warm and supportive culture.

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. The trust delivers intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire, spanning approximately 200 sites including community locations, acute settings, and secure environments such as prisons. We are one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and among Nottinghamshire's biggest employers, hosting national and regional services including the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

Various staff networks support a diverse workforce:
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups; the Green Champions network; the Freedom to Speak Up network; the Health and Wellbeing Champions network; and the Menopause Champions network. Our commitment to employee health and wellbeing is supported through occupational health and staff counselling services.

The Trust is also committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with an Energy and Environmental team working to comply with environmental legislation and achieve net‑zero commitments.