Team Leader Community CYPMHS in Welwyn Garden City and Hoddesdon inWelwyn Garden City and Hoddesdon PUBLISHED THU 13 MAR 2025 Jump to job information section

We are seeking to recruit talented Team Leaders to join our Community Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) leadership teams across Hertfordshire. These are new roles to strengthen operational delivery and high quality responsive care across our community services. Working in conjunction with the leadership teams and Operational Managers, you will be supported to develop your managerial skills whilst also holding some clinical involvement.

This is a super opportunity to join a growing team and be part of an exciting new future for our CYPMHS service.

Our teams are based across our region including: Watford, Borehamwood, Hemel Hempstead, St Albans, Hertford, Welwyn Garden City, Hoddesdon, Stevenage.

Come and work in an outstanding Trust to deliver community treatment in mental health!

Please contact Sara Crean Muir on Tel: , Email: for an informal chat or to arrange a visit. We look forward to hearing from you!

CAMHS Partnership (hpftcamhs.nhs.uk)

The successful candidate will:

• be an experienced Mental Health clinician
• have excellent assessment and risk management skills
• embrace and drive change and innovation
• be a skilled and intuitive communicator with experience of providing leadership
• work directly with the Operational Manager
• receive support, development and direction from your leadership colleagues

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to move into their first management role or for an experienced manager who wishes to take a change in direction and who can take the service forward with enthusiasm and a passion for continuous quality improvement.

In return, we can offer you:

• leadership and management training opportunities
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Free Pilates lessons
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
• Employee Assistance Programme

Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.

About us

To work in collaboration with the Community CYPMHS Operational Manager, to ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery. This will include management of duty, rotas, recruitment/HR, allocations and case management, maintaining governance, patient experience, performance, finance etc

To work as part of the CYPMHS Service Line to deliver safe services in line with Thrive principles

To provide day to day management, leadership and supervision to a multi- disciplinary community CYPMHS team.

The Team Leader will operationally manage nurses, social workers, psychologists and other clinical staff, ensuring that the needs of service users are met through the effective deployment of these staff. They will also maintain a clinical role and/ or a caseload dependent on need.

You will contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures.

You may on occasion deputise for the Operational Manager in their absence, as agreed with the Service Manager, and provide cover for other Team Leaders.

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 indepth Person and Job Specification please see attached.