Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated clinician to undertake a a new role as a Band 7 Clinical Team Manager within the Crisis Assessment Unit and Section 136 service at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. At a time when the service is undergoing review and development, this role offers a unique opportunity to shape and influence future service delivery, contributing to improved outcomes for individuals experiencing mental health crisis.

Crisis Assessment Unit (CAU), which is currently operating as a 6-bedded acute female ward, ensuring safe, effective, and integrated care across the crisis pathway. The s136 suite, health based place of safety is attached to CAU and is a 2 bedded suite. As Clinical Team Manager, you will provide clear, visible leadership to a multidisciplinary team of nurses and health support workers, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality, responsive, and service user-focused service.

Working closely with the Clinical Operations Manager and wider senior leadership team, you will lead on clinical governance, service improvement, and the day-to-day operational management of the team within an evolving and demanding environment. The role requires strong leadership, sound clinical judgement, and the ability to effectively manage complex and high-risk situations, while maintaining a clear focus on quality, safety, and patient experience.

Main duties of the job
A key component of the role will be to work collaboratively alongside the Clinical Team Manager for the Street Triage Service, ensuring safe, effective, and integrated care across the crisis pathway. You will support cross-cover arrangements between services and play an active role within the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT), contributing to assessment, care planning, and decision-making across the whole pathway.

You will establish and maintain strong working relationships with a range of internal and external partners, including police, ambulance services, community teams, and the CRISS service, to ensure seamless care pathways and continuity of care across services.

This is an excellent development opportunity to enhance leadership skills, influence service transformation, and play a key role in driving forward innovation and best practice within crisis care provision.

About us
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Job responsibilities
Lead and manage the day-to-day operational functioning of the Crisis Assessment Unit and Section 136 service, including coordinating a multi-disciplinary team to deliver high-quality, person-centred care. Provide clinical and managerial leadership, oversee staff supervision and performance, and ensure compliance with Trust policies and standards.

Work collaboratively with internal and external partners, including police, acute services, and community teams, to ensure effective communication, safe decision-making, and seamless care pathways. Contribute to service review, development, and quality improvement initiatives, while supporting staff in managing complex and high-risk situations to improve outcomes and service user experience.

Qualifications
Essential

• Have a recognised professional qualification e.g. Nursing / Social Work / Occupational Therapy or equivalent.
• Be educated to degree level or equivalent.

Skills
Essential

• Be competent and confident, to provide expertise, advice, clinical and managerial leadership and role modelling to the teams they are working with.
• Develop and facilitate effective communication between the teams/services that are within the crisis pathway and beyond.

Experience
Essential

• Have experience in managing staff.
• Be able to demonstrate a broad range of administrative, clinical, managerial and leadership skills, for the post in question and evidence to support this.
• Be able to demonstrate effective working partnerships within a multi-disciplinary team, to achieve an integrated, effective and efficient service.

Knowledge
Essential

• Demonstrate strong leadership skills including planning, prioritisation, staff development and evaluation.
• Have a clear understanding of and commitment to the role of S136 & Street Triage services as defined in the service specification.
• Have an excellent understanding of mental health services, including relevant legislation.

Values
Desirable

• Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
• Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
• Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.