Team Leader, Healthcare

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Team Leader

The closing date is 25 January 2026

The primary function of this role is to provide clinical leadership to the day-to-day operation of the team.

To carry a complex caseload of service users and deliver specialist interventions, sometimes joint working complex cases with care coordinators.

To provide clinical leadership to the day-to-day operation of the integrated clinical team, monitoring workload, allocating duties and ensuring duties are discharged safely and effectively.

To provide expertise and guidance in complex and high‑risk cases, in line with Trust and Local Authority policies and procedures.

To champion a culture based on principles of recovery, choice and personalised care.

Providing a role model to the rest of the team.

To take a proactive approach to caseload supervision and management to ensure that practitioner skills are matched to clinical need, and that service users are able to ‘flow’ through pathways of care.

To deputise for colleague Team Leaders and CMHT Manager as required.

To be responsible for the day‑to‑day management of the clinical service, working closely with the CMHT Manager.

To supervise and manage the daily workload in such a way to maximise efficiency, ensuring that duties are discharged safely and effectively. This includes the processing, evaluation and allocation of referrals as appropriate to the team’s function, and an efficient caseload management system.

To be available to practitioners for advice, guidance and support in the discharge of their duties, ensuring the team works within the care planning policy and risk policy.

To ensure that care planning reflects agreed clinical care pathways.

To line‑manage an identified group of practitioners, including supervision, appraisal and development.

To identify and address poor performance in line with organisational policy.

To alert the CMHT Manager in a timely manner to any concerns about the team’s effectiveness, or that of any of its members.

To lead inter‑agency processes on behalf of the CMHT Manager in complex and/or high‑risk cases, such as safeguarding, case conferences, etc.

To be involved in recruitment and selection.

To act as an authorised signatory for employment changes.

To work within agreed budgets NHS & LA.

To deputise for the CMHT Manager as required, and lead on agreed areas of work for the team.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined‑up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community‑based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person’s care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute‑level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of…