Team Lead - Line Manager

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 23 February 2026

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role

We are recruiting for 1 part time fixed term Team Lead to join the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin NHS Talking Therapies Service.

Welcome! The Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin NHS Talking Therapies Service is a busy caring team consisting of Administration staff, PWPs, CBT Practitioners, and Counsellors. We deliver Talking Therapies to the people of Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin which has exciting, diverse and growing modern towns, surrounded by the stunning Shropshire countryside.

This role is a fixed term maternity cover for a period of 12 months, working 26.5 hours per week (end date 31st March 2027). Working as part of the operational leadership team, you will provide line management to a group of Step 2 / Step 3 staff and will have the opportunity to be involved with service development through project work.

You will provide all aspects of line management support for a group of Step 2 / Step 3 staff within the Service

You will work closely with the Strategic Operational Lead and Service Operational Lead to ensure that the Service KPI's are met

• You will managerially lead the Step 2 / Step 3 staff of the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin NHS Talking Therapies Service. This will include appraising staff and providing line management supervision whilst adhering to the key principles of the NHS Talking Therapies programme contained in the NHS Talking Therapies Manual
• You will provide all aspects of line management to Step 2 / Step 3 clinicians (trainee & qualified) within the service.
• You will be responsible for ensuring that service and individual performance targets at Step 2 / Step 3 are met, identifying and resolving underperformance and working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve results.
• You are not expected to have a clinical caseload, although a small caseload could be negotiated to meet the minimum requirements for professional registration/ Accreditation within one core modality.
• You will be working with Staff, Service Users and Carers from different cultural backgrounds, ages, difference and diversity, and should be committed to culturally sensitive practice and offering equality of opportunity.

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

For more information relating to this position, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note this vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role.

• Post graduate diploma or equivalent qualification in Counselling / Qualification from High Intensity NHS…