Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Team Leader position to join the Mid Essex Talking Therapies service to cover maternity leave, based in Braintree in Essex and part of the Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust. We are seeking to recruit an exceptional candidate to provide leadership to our Talking Therapies team and may also provide support to other teams as required. You will work closely with the operational manager and senior clinicians to ensure that we continue to provide an efficient, safe, responsive, and high-quality service to our service users.

Please note, this vacancy may close early once the required number of applications have been received

Please note that HPFT is contracted to provide the Mid Essex Talking Therapies service until 31 March 2027, after which a different provider will assume responsibility for delivering the service. This advertised job role is a secondment position covering maternity leave. Any transfer of staff to the incoming provider would be subject to the applicable TUPE regulations and formal consultation processes.

Main duties of the job
The Talking Therapies Team Leader will work in collaboration with the operational manager to ensure that the highest possible standards of practice and service delivery are maintained. As part of this, the post-holder will have a key role of managing clinical and non-clinical operational systems and processes within the team.

They will use their management experience to lead on service changes and developments and contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures.

They will lead a multi-disciplinary team, with involvement of service coordination, staff wellbeing, supervision, client support, complaints, governance and service performance and improvement.

They will have the opportunity to maintain a positive and supportive team culture, following trust values and to respond actively to the needs of the team.

The Team Leader will also maintain a clinical leadership role and/ or a caseload for more complex cases, dependent on sector need.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a qualified health professional (e.g. nurse, occupational therapist or someone with clinical Talking Therapies experience) to join our team based in Braintree.

About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Job responsibilities
To work in collaboration with the Mid Essex Talking Therapies Operational Manager, to ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery.
To provide day to day management, leadership and supervision to a multidisciplinary primary care team.
You will ensure that the needs of service users are met through the effective deployment of staff.
You will also maintain a clinical role and/ or a caseload dependent on sector need.
You will ensure, in collaboration with other professional colleagues that professional practice meets standards as set by HPFT and/or professional statutes and bodies.

For a more detailed Job and person specification please read the attached document before applying

Qualifications / Education / Training
Essential

• Masters level qualification in management or management-related discipline or equivalent level of knowledge gained through management experience.
• Core profession/relevant psychological experience

Desirable

• Leadership course or willing to undertake a relevant programme.
• Higher management qualification i.e., MBA LEAN training.

Previous Experience
Essential

• Extensive experience in a general management role in a complex organisation
• NHS experience
• Experience of leading and managing teams Inc. recruitment and selection, staff appraisal, personal development, and performance management
• Budget management
• Experience of managing multiple & complex tasks within tight deadlines
• Experience of developing and improving health services
• Experience of developing planning and implementing new ways of working, using appropriate methodology

Skills / Knowledge / Ability
Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own workload with minimum levels of direct supervision
• Ability to use judgement and analytical methods
• Ability to develop excellent working relationships with clinical and non-clinical colleagues at all levels
• Ability to positively negotiate on a range of issues with all staff groups and at all levels
• Able to work flexibly according to the needs of the service and adapt to changing environments
• A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals
• Ability to apply frequent concentration
• Able to work using own initiative and as part of a team
• Successful team leadership/motivation skills and ability to develop others
• Experience of managing staff and performance
• Ability to produce clear, detailed, and succinct written reports
• Ability to use a range of IT skills i.e., keyboard skills, manipulate data, data analysis

Analytical Skills
Essential

• Ability to analyse information quickly and effectively, thereby ensuring correct pathway is chosen
• Ability to read, analyse, and interpret procedures, or governmental regulations
• Ability to write report, business correspondence and procedure manuals
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• Understanding of demand and capacity metrics and resource planning methods
• Excellent accurate keyboard skills
• Excellent telephone skills and manner
• Excellent IT knowledge

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.