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Community Team Manager

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

King's Lynn, PE30 5PDView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

5 October 2026

5 days left

Job description

An exciting opportunity for a Community Team Manager has arisen with the West Norfolk Community Mental Health Team, based at Chatterton House. The tea...

The successful candidate will be expected to provide visible, compassionate and effective leadership for the West Norfolk Community Mental Health Team, maintaining a strong presence across the service and fostering a positive culture of engagement, accountability and continuous improvement. You will lead and manage the day-to-day operational delivery of the Community Mental Health Team, ensuring the provision of safe, effective and recovery-focused care.Support, supervise and develop a multidisciplinary workforce, promoting staff wellbeing, professional development and high-quality clinical practice. You will ensure appropriate caseload management, workload allocation, capacity planning and workforce deployment to meet service demand safely and effectively. You will maintain robust clinical governance processes, including risk management, safeguarding, incident reporting, quality assurance and compliance with organisational policies. You will work collaboratively with service users, carers, primary care, acute services, social care and voluntary sector partners to deliver integrated, person-centred care. You will lead service improvement and transformation initiatives, supporting the implementation of best practice and innovation across the team. You will act as a professional role model and ambassador for the organisation's values, promoting equality, inclusion, learning and high standards of patient care.

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!

  • NHS pension
  • a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
  • career progression
  • starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
  • staff physio service
  • NHS discounts and many more.

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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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 professional 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.

Experience

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate experience at a senior clinical level including staff management / supervision experience.
  • Evidence of providing leadership in a Mental Health care environment including service development.

Desirable: - Previous experience of working with Complex case management.

Qualifications

Essential: - Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip SW or Dip OT or equivalent, or HCPC registered

Desirable: - Ongoing professional development working towards degree level

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

21 September 2026

Last checked

23 September 2026

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About the employer

NSF
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

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