Community Team Manager

Job summary

Are you passionate about supporting children and young people with mental health needs and have a keen interest in eating disorders? Do you have strong leadership skills and a commitment to delivering high-quality care? If you're ready to make a positive impact and lead a team that positively impacts the lives of children and their families, apply today! We'd love to hear how you could contribute to our vision of delivering exceptional care for children and young people with eating disorders. Come and join our dedicated and compassionate team as a Community Team Manager.

As the Community Team Manager, you will lead a dynamic and experienced multidisciplinary team, providing specialist care to children and young people who are struggling with eating disorders. You'll be at the forefront of shaping the direction of the service, driving performance and quality improvements, and ensuring that every young person and their families receive the compassionate, evidence-based care they deserve.

This role can be considered on a 12-month fixed term or secondment basis.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties -

Operational Oversight: Manage the operational delivery of services, ensuring that clinical and non-clinical activities align with Trust policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

Performance Monitoring: Monitor the team's performance, ensure that objectives align with Trust goals, and contribute to the development and review of service-wide policies and procedure

Staff Management: Lead and supervise team members, ensuring regular training, supervision, and personal development planning. Ensure team members are competent and have the necessary resources to perform their duties effectively.

Clinical Support: Participate in multidisciplinary team (MDT) decisions regarding care plans and ensure care is delivered with a patient-centred approach, involving service users, families, and carers.

Accountability: Maintain accountability for personal and team actions, ensuring professional codes of practice are followed.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

SW Norfolk & Waveney Eating Disorders

Thurlow House, Goodwins Road

Kings Lyn

PE30 5PD

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

SW Norfolk & Waveney Eating Disorders

Thurlow House, Goodwins Road

Kings Lyn

PE30 5PD

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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