Team Leader

Job summary

Are you an experienced Team Leader?

Would you like to work for an Outstanding Trust?

Come and work in our friendly Enhanced Primary Mental Health Service (EPMHS) which is based in The Orchards, Hemel Hempstead! The team delivers psychologically informed interventions and other support interventions for those who fall into the gap between Community Mental Health Teams and NHS Talking Therapies Teams.

You will work in collaboration with Primary Care Mental Health Services Manager and other Team Leader colleagues, to ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery for our service users.

We are looking for a team leader to provide daily leadership and support the team's ongoing development. You will have the opportunity to develop leadership skills through the East of England Leadership Academy - training is actively promoted. You will have a registered profession such as nursing, occupational therapy or social work. The team is fun to work with, fresh and enthusiastic - this is a great time to join them!

This is a great opportunity for someone seeking to develop their leadership skills.

For an informal chat, please contact Corrin Smith on 07814 352281 or Adrienne Coward 07814 353426.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• provide day to day operational management, leadership, and supervision to Primary Care Mental Health Services Staff
• manage primary care mental health staff which may include EPMHS staff and GP+ staff
• maintain a clinical leadership role and/ or a caseload dependent on sector need
• contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures
• work with the Service Manager, to undertake the timely recruitment selection, appointment and induction of team members
• manage all aspects of the team's time i.e. Rota, Time worked, Annual Leave via the E Roster system.

In return, we can offer you:

• leadership and management training
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
• Employee Assistance Programme

Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match.

We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Date posted: 14 April 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £48,270 to £54,931 a year per annum, pro rata (5% HCAS Included)

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 367-ACMS-9308

Job responsibilities

• Ensure the provision of appropriate triage and advice to individuals with severe mental illness and complex needs, presenting in primary care
• Ensure the liaison with other services or agencies to support the primary care network response to mental health needs in primary care.
• Participate in risk assessment and risk management activities appropriate to primary care.
• Maintain service activities in line with the agreed referral and triage criteria.
• To provide a flexible service, responsive to Service User need and Stakeholder feedback.
• To develop the service in line with Trust strategy.
• Maintain an effective skill/ professional personnel mix to provide a multi-professional team approach.
• Put in place systems to investigate and access a wide range of services designed to meet occupational, recreational, social and health needs in primary care.
• To provide information for service development and evaluation through the use of outcome measurements, audit and annual service policy review.
• Implement risk assessment procedures related to the working environment, tasks and client management.

For a more detailed person and Job Description please read the attached before applying.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential:

• RMN/DipSW/CQSW/OT qualification.
• Evidence of current registration with the NMC, GSCC or HPC.

Desirable:

• Cert or Dip. in management.

Experience

Essential:

• Extensive post qualifying experience of working with people with mental health problems in the community.
• Experience of working within or with primary care services.
• Experience of providing clinical and management supervision.
• Involvement in the development of a new service or of change management.

Desirable:

• Experience of working within or with primary care services.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address:

The Orchards

Ashley Close

Hemel Hempstead

HP3 8EH

Employer's website: https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/