CMHT Team LeaderNHS

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic individual to join Bridport Adult Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) as a Band 7 Team Leader. This is an exciting leadership opportunity for a motivated professional who is passionate about delivering high-quality, recovery-focused care for adults experiencing serious mental health difficulties.

You will be an experienced, registered professional with:

• Significant post-registration experience, including community mental health
• Strong knowledge of legislation, clinical governance, risk management, and adult mental health practice
• Proven leadership and management skills, including supervision and performance management
• Excellent organisational, communication, and decision-making abilities
• A commitment to recovery-focused and socially inclusive practice
• The ability to manage change and work effectively under pressure

A passion for supporting staff, improving services, and delivering excellent care to people with complex mental health needs is essential.

Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the day-to-day operational leadership and management of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and efficient services in line with Trust policies, legislation, and local authority requirements.

You will provide visible, consistent, and supportive leadership, acting as a positive role model and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, reflective practice, and staff development. You will support the team to enhance their skills, systems, and overall service delivery to meet the needs of service users and carers.

The post combines both clinical and managerial responsibilities, requiring you to maintain a small caseload of complex cases, make sound clinical judgements under pressure, and support high standards of care across the service.

The post is based at Bridport Community Hospital and expectation will be to engage with the Primary Care Networks, Access Well Being and VCSE's.

Job description

For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.

We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidates individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role.

All submissions must be truthful and if you do use AI, it should only be used to enhance your application and not create your supporting statement in its entirety. Your supporting statement should be in your own words and must accurately reflect your personal experience and achievements. Where we have concerns that AI has been used to generate content that misrepresents your experience and suitability for the role, we may withdraw your application.

As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare offers support for people getting into work. We offer an employability service to support individuals with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support, please do contact [email protected]

About us

At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.