Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Full time
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 444-8119140-MH
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Coventry Parkside
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/07/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/08/2026
Employer heading
Team Leader Mental Health Support Teams
NHS AfC: Band 7
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.
PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
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Job overview
Lead with purpose. Inspire others. Shape the future of children's mental health.
Are you an experienced mental health clinician looking to take the next step in your leadership journey?
Our Mental Health Support Team (MHST) Team Leader role offers an exciting opportunity to combine your clinical knowledge with operational leadership, supporting a skilled multidisciplinary workforce to deliver high-quality services across schools and education settings. Working alongside a supportive leadership team, you will play a key role in developing staff, driving service improvement, building strong partnerships and ensuring children and young people receive the right support at the right time.
If you're passionate about leading people, influencing change and making a lasting difference to children's mental health services, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Mental Health Support Teams (MHST’s) are part of an exciting trailblazer project funded by NHS England, Health Education England & partners with the aim to improve the mental health & wellbeing of children & young people in the community.
· Responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the identified team, including patients, team activity, performance, safety & quality and staffing matters.
· To contribute to the delivery of the transformational change programme for the Children's Directorate, particularly through the development of a more integrated, multi-professional workforce.
· To support the delivery of child & family focused services, against agreed performance and quality targets and within budget, whilst delivering agreed cost improvements.
· Management of staff
· Contribute to effective partnership working with key external services, such as social care, the acute sector and key third sector organisations, to enable the delivery of shared outcomes.
· Provide day to day supervision and support for the defined team.
· Work closely with team leads across MHST to ensure delivery of the service vision.
Working for our organisation
Candidate Information Pack Dec 24
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
· generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
· excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
· salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
· discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
· wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
· staff networks and support groups
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior supervisory level
- Relevant qualification or significant experience in clinical children’s field - mental health, neurodevelopment, learning disability
- Registered Nurse RN/LD/MH/CN Social Worker/AHP (PgDip, MSc or equivalent)
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Must be able to demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate and present complex information to a variety of internal and external audiences
- Strong understanding of national policy in relation to health services for children and young people
- Good analytical skills and ability to draw conclusions from combinations of qualitative and quantitative information sources and present in a concise manner.
- Demonstrable capability to plan over short and medium term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Must be able to demonstrate an ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across
- Ability to develop and implement innovative solutions, to problem solve and respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to manage poor performance
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of developing and maintaining monitoring systems to measure team performance or quality
- Experience of managing budgets, involvement in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of addressing equality and diversity issues within a service context
- Experience of working in children’s mental health services.
- Experience and understanding of safeguarding
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cally Lawrie
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07391412419
- Additional information
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