Team Manager (Home Based Treatment Team)

Overview

In this role you lead and develop the Central Manchester Home-Based Treatment Team, driving recovery-focused care to prevent hospital admission and support patients at home. You will work with the leadership team on service development and ensure safe, high-quality care with robust supervision and appraisal processes. You’ll shape care planning, patient flow, and staff development, aligning practice with Trust policies and Core Fidelity benchmarks. This is a dynamic opportunity to influence urgent mental health care at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• 30% pay enhancement for evenings and Saturdays
• 60% pay enhancement for Sundays and bank holidays
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with tenure
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day management of the HBTT and ensure safe transition of cases in and out of the team
• Manage workload with systems for allocation, transfer, discharge/closure
• Support patient flow and safe discharge from inpatient wards with HBTT support
• Develop robust care planning to support service users, carers, and staff
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, policies, and guidelines
• Provide line-management, clinical supervision, and annual appraisals per Trust policy
• Promote service development in collaboration with the wider leadership team

Key requirements

• Registered Professional (RMN, SW, OT)
• Significant post-qualifying experience in urgent care
• Experience in supervisory capacity
• Desirable: experience managing a multidisciplinary service and in quality improvement
• Desirable: experience with the Core Fidelity model for HBTs
• Willingness to be flexible and work beyond traditional boundaries
• Current UK professional registration

• flexible and proactive approach
• ability to promote staff wellbeing and supportive environment
• strong workload organization and prioritization
• Knowledge of Home-Based Treatment Service Model and its effectiveness
• Relapse prevention understanding
• service monitoring and evaluation (desirable)

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