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Adult Mental Health Community Team Manager - Banbury, Banbury
Client:
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
Banbury, United Kingdom
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
8e04d40d9357
Job Views:
4
Posted:
28.03.2025
Expiry Date:
12.05.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
Do you have management experience in the mental health field?
Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker seeking a step up in your career?
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Mental Health Professional (Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker) to join the North and West Oxfordshire Adult Mental Health Team (AMHT) as a Team Manager.
This is a pivotal leadership role, working alongside other Team Managers to oversee a busy and diverse team covering a large geographic area, including Banbury, Brackley, and surrounding villages.
The service operates 7 days a week (07:00-21:00), with core hours for this role typically Monday to Friday, 09:00-17:00, but flexibility is required for duty management and attendance at key meetings.
Main duties of the job
As Team Manager, you will be responsible for the operational management of the service, ensuring the delivery of high-quality care in line with local and national strategic priorities. You will play a key role in service planning, development, and evaluation while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
* Leading and supporting a multidisciplinary team to provide excellent patient care.
* Recruitment, supervision, and development of staff, ensuring high standards of practice.
* Managing budgets and contributing to strategic decision-making.
* Working in partnership with clinical leads, commissioners, and external agencies.
* Overseeing quality improvement, research, and governance initiatives.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification
Education & Training
* RMN, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or Psychology Professional Qualification
Experience of Management
* High level experience of team management and performance management skills
* Experience of developing and leading service development and ability to demonstrate positive outcomes for patients and carers
* Experience of managing change and communicating the need for this to all staff within the teams
Clinical Experience
* High level standard of working, knowledge/skills and community work as a senior clinician
* Experience of Caseload management/highly complex and difficult clinical situations and cases
* Specialist or advanced skills attained in assessment
All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.
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