Job Description

Are you an experienced manager or leader within a community mental health setting, do you have experience or an interest in working with Looked after and Adopted children and their families and carers? Then we want to hear from you.



As a Community Team manager working in the CFYP Looked After and Adopted Children's Team you will be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team supporting the mental health and wellbeing of some of the most vulnerable young people. As well as the exciting opportunity to manage the CFYP LAAC service this role has a further peripatetic component, allowing for the successful applicant to gain a wide range of experience across the CFYP service line.



We work closely alongside Social Care and the young people's carers, particularly supporting those young people who are experiencing attachment or trauma related difficulties as a result of their past history.



To ensure safe caring, responsive, high quality service is provided to service users, their families and carers within the clinical environment by ensuring compliance with Statutory and Regulatory requirements and Trust Policies, pathways, standard operating procedures and protocols.



They will allocate work accordingly within the team to ensure effective and efficient use of resources to ensure service users and carers needs are met, and monitor the team's contribution and performance to the overall objectives of the Trust.



The Community Team Manager will provide professional governance and leadership within their area



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.

Benefits included with this role are:

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NHS pension

a comprehensive in house & external training programmes

career progression

starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)

staff physio service

NHS discounts and many more.



Please find attached our and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!