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Deputy Team Manager - Community Mental Health Team ( £3,500 bonus)

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 05 Medi 2025
Cyflog: Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: Competitive
Oriau: Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau: 05 Hydref 2025
Lleoliad: High Wycombe
Cwmni: inploi
Math o swydd: Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd: 75740023

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Job overview

Are you an Occupational Therapist (OT), Social Worker (SW), or Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) seeking a new challenge? Or looking to grow into a leadership role within a community health team?

We have the perfect role for you as a Deputy Team Manager in the Chiltern West Adult Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). You'll become an integral part of our experienced and dedicated leadership team, providing exceptional clinical and managerial guidance to the team. You will also collaborate with a dynamic group of managers and Consultant Psychiatrists to create a supportive and empowering environment for the wider team.

Join us in shaping the future of mental health care and making a positive impact in our community.

Why Choose Us?

  • Be part of an experienced and committed leadership team.
  • Work in a dynamic and supportive environment.
  • Make a difference in the lives of individuals with mental health challenges

Ready to take the next step in your career? 

This role is eligible for an incentive scheme of £3,500 paid at intervals over an 18-month period. All payments are pro-rata, non-pensionable and subject to a clawback clause. Please note that only employees external to Oxford Health NHS are eligible for this scheme. 

Main duties of the job

  • Undertake clinical and operational responsibilities within the Adult Mental Health Team, using systems to document activities and manage caseloads.
  • Assist in managing and developing the team, including recruiting staff and implementing services, ensuring team members are trained.
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of a performance management system, to monitor performance and generate reports.
  • Line manage, supervise, and appraise key workers, ensuring their professional development is maintained and activities.
  • Ensure effective joint working with statutory and voluntary agencies, using systems to coordinate interagency projects and ensure responsive service delivery.

The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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
  • Competitive pension scheme
  • Lease car scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Mental Health First Aiders
  • 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.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Person specification Experience Essential criteria
  • Mental health experience
  • Leadership and management experience
Desirable criteria
  • Research experience
  • Report writing
  • Experience of undertaking complaint or incident investigations
Qualifications Essential criteria
  • SW, Mental Health Nurse or OT qualification
Knowledge Essential criteria
  • Community mental health framework
  • Severe and enduring mental health need
Documents to Download

JD&PS (PDF, 360.4KB)

Job Risks Form (PDF, 312.6KB)

Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)

Recruiter Contact Details

Name: Sarah Wilks

Title: Team Manager

Email: sarah.wilks@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

Telephone: 01865 901344

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