Clinical Team Leader

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Clinical Team Leader

The closing date is 05 April 2026

Are you an experienced Nurse in Charge or Senior Practitioner looking to step into a pivotal leadership role within the community?

We are seeking an ambitious professional to become our Clinical Team Leader during a landmark period of transformation for mental health services. While this role is ideal for those with a community background, we also welcome applications from senior inpatient nurses ready for a new challenge.

Andover CMHT has recently relocated to the Andover Health Hub in the Chantry Centre, which is a major step forward for local service delivery. By co-locating with the Older Persons Mental Health Team and Primary Care services, we are able to provide the Andover community with a "one-stop" hub for their healthcare needs.

As our Clinical Team Leader, you will move into a role of genuine influence:

• Drive Clinical Excellence: Provide leadership to the daily operations of an integrated team, ensuring safe and effective care delivery.
• Manage Complexity: Carry a specialist caseload and provide expert "joint-working" support for care coordinators on complex cases.
• Shape the Future: Directly contribute to the transformation and improvement of local mental health pathways.

In return, we are invested in your growth, offering management training, protected time for your learning and development, as well as regular clinical supervision to ensure you thrive as a leader. If you're ready to take your clinical experience to the next level, we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

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

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

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 unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification. Mental Health Nurse with appropriate registration with NMC.
• Management or leadership qualification and/or training.
• Experience of care coordination and the role and function of a Community Mental Health Team.

Experience

• Previous experience in the effective and positive management of complex and high risk cases.
• Ability to demonstrate a commitment to multi disciplinary team working.
• Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively with other agencies.
• Willingness to demonstrate the potential for change management approaches which extend existing practices.
• Exposure to, understanding of and competence in IT facilities and systems associated with service users budgets and management information.
• Evidence of experience as a supervisor including a clear understanding and application of an effective caseload management system.
• Demonstrate planning skills eg in terms of resource allocation and funding.
• Demonstrate an understanding of and a commitment to the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation.
• Commitment to attend staff training and participate in own development through supervision and performance development and able to illustrate examples of service development initiated by the candidate.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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