Community Team ManagerNHS

Job summary

Are you an experienced manager or leader within an acute mental health setting. Do you have experience or an interest in working with service users in crisis? Then we want to hear from you.

We are looking for a passionate, skilled professional from a Nursing, Social Work (with additional mental health training), or Occupational Therapy background.

We are excited to be recruiting a Community Team Manager to join our dynamic acute service in West Norfolk at a time of genuine transformation and innovation.

Our service is evolving as part of a wider commitment to improve our pathways for the service users we work with. This creates a unique opportunity to be part of shaping a modern, responsive mental health service for those experiencing acute mental health challenges.

If you're motivated to be part of a forward-thinking service and want to help shape the future of mental health care for those in acute need, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will provide strong operational leadership to a multidisciplinary team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality care to those with acute mental health needs and their families. You will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day service delivery, managing performance, and ensuring that care is responsive, evidence-based, and aligned with national and local standards.

You will lead, support, and develop a diverse team of practitioners, fostering a positive and inclusive culture that promotes staff wellbeing, continuous learning, and professional development. This includes supervising staff, managing caseloads, and ensuring effective risk management and safeguarding practices are embedded across the service.

This role will monitor and report on key performance indicators, support quality assurance processes, and drive improvements to enhance patient outcomes and experience. Your leadership will ensure that the service remains responsive to the needs of the local population while maintaining compliance with regulatory and organisational requirements.

Job description

You will be a joining a vibrant, supportive, and highly skilled team, where collaboration, compassion, and innovation are at the heart of everything we do. This is a role where you can truly make a difference supporting young people through challenging times and empowering them to thrive.

Please find attached our Job Description 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!

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About us

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.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.