Team Manager Cotswold

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YMM in Gloucestershire continues to develop Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) working with over 150 primary and secondary schools to increase access to mental health interventions for children and young people aged 5‑18 years. New investment has seen the service expand and an exciting opportunity has arisen to apply for a Team Manager role.

This is a stimulating and challenging role with opportunity to be part of the Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in Gloucestershire and join the national programme transforming the way children and young people access mental health support and interventions.

MHSTs are multi‑agency teams led by a Team Manager and comprising qualified Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioners (SMHP), Talk Well + Counsellors (a local charity) and Band 5 Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP). This Team Manager role will oversee one of the localities, Cotswold, Stroud & Dursley, working closely with the other team managers.

• Be responsible and lead the day‑to‑day management and line management to practitioners within MHSTs which will include trainee Band 4 and Band 5 EMHPs, Band 6 and Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioners
• Be responsible and ensure the effective co‑ordination of a range of operational processes within the team such as referral and case allocation, caseload management, regular review and proactive monitoring of intervention within the MHSTs including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated.
• Demonstrate commitment to ensuring routine outcome monitoring is embedded within the development of the MHSTs in order to demonstrate improvements in outcomes for children, young people and parents/carers.
• Be able to plan and deliver against key milestones.
• Provide day to day operational management and leadership to the Mental Health Support Teams.
• Demonstrate enhanced competence in operational decision making.
• Collect and collate data and information effectively for the purpose of audit, and service performance.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5,000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high‑level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to…