Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Team Leader SMABS
The closing date is 06 December 2026

Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in Specialist Mother and Baby Mental Health Service. We are looking for a full time, Band 7 Team Leader. Postholder will Team Lead The Specialist Mother and Baby Mental Health Service Team (SMABS) which serves Bradford, Airedale and Craven.

SMABS aspires to provide an excellent comprehensive Perinatal Mental Health Service for the women of Bradford, Airedale and Craven. We deliver a sustainable and resilient solution for women suffering from a mental illness in the perinatal period by focusing on improving outcomes for them, their infant and their families.

We do this by effective multidisciplinary integrated team working and ensuring effective prevention that responds to local need by:

• Intervening at preconception, during pregnancy and up to 12 months postnatally (with an ambition of extending to 24 months)
• Working with women high risk of or currently experiencing severe mental illness
• Providing parent-infant relationship interventions
• Developing and delivering on-going training of professionals from multiple disciplines
• Improving pathways and processes for mothers, partners, their families and professionals
• Delivering a multi-disciplinary specialist perinatal mental health service to woman who present with severe/complex mental health needs

You will be expected to lead collaboratively with another Team Lead, the Clinical Lead and the Consultant Psychiatrist(s).

Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide leadership, managerial and supervisory responsibility to a group of practitioners working as a multidisciplinary team including nurses, social workers, OT's, nursery nurses and Psychological Therapists providing assessments and interventions within a perinatal mental health service.

The numbers of staff supervised will determine how the workload is managed between active clinical work and management responsibilities.

The post holder will assist the clinical lead and work alongside the other team managers in continually developing the service and ensuring the delivery of care and interventions in a perinatal mental health team.

Partnerships will include midwifes, health visitors, GPs, other mental health services, learning disability services, social care, physical health services, consultation to professionals in the primary care services and other adult mental health services including the voluntary sector.

Please note that this job description serves to provide an illustrative example of the duties and responsibilities the post holder may be expected to undertake during the course of their normal duties. It is not therefore an exhaustive list; the post holder will therefore be required to undertake other responsibilities and duties that are considered to be commensurate with the band.

Priority areas for this post will be agreed annually via the appraisal process.

About us
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:

• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:

• Increase mileage rates for > 3500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

Details
Date posted: 12 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 453-26-8404457
Job locations: New Mill, Victoria Road, Shipley, BD18 3LD, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Professionally recognised nurse, Social Services or AHP qualification
• Essential: Previous experience of working in a community mental health setting
• Essential: Able to demonstrate working at first degree level
• Desirable: Evidence of further formal management study and/ or qualification

Experience

• Essential: Minimum of 3 years as a practicing professional in an community mental health environment
• Essential: Able to work on own initiative, without direct supervision and recognise own limits
• Essential: Able to integrate and work within a multi-disciplinary team and in complex service structures
• Essential: Able to work flexibly and deliver a service through working practices that are dictated by service user/carer need
• Desirable: At least 1 years management experience in a community mental health team or service
• Desirable: Willingness to receive supervision and undergo further training and development as necessary
• Desirable: Experience of leading a service reconfiguration

Knowledge

• Essential: Experience of budgetary & financial management
• Essential: Experience providing clinical management and leadership to a multidisciplinary team
• Essential: Open, participative and supportive leadership and management style
• Desirable: Knowledge of perinatal mental health difficulties and conditions
• Desirable: Experience of business management

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.

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

Employer details
Employer name: Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: New Mill, Victoria Road, Shipley, BD18 3LD, United Kingdom

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Clinical Lead, Lisa Milne, lisa.milne@bdct.nhs.uk, 07860749770