Clinical Team Manager
Location: South Tyneside Talking Therapies, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
Closing date: 14 July 2026
Join an innovative service delivering high-quality, evidence-based treatments in primary care for people with common mental health problems. Do you have the clinical expertise to deliver effective interventions alongside the leadership skills to support and develop practitioners? If so, this could be the opportunity for you.
South Tyneside Talking Therapies is an award‑winning service and one of the highest performing services regionally and nationally. We are seeking a passionate, values‑driven Clinical Team Manager committed to delivering high-quality care and continuous improvement. You will be an inclusive and compassionate leader, fostering a positive culture where staff feel supported, valued, and able to thrive.
The role requires a proactive individual motivated to shape service delivery, champion clinical excellence, and support innovation. You will play a key role in ensuring the service continues to meet national expectations while maintaining a strong focus on patient‑centred care.
Main duties of the job
There is a strong commitment within the service to ensuring staff are supported to reach their full potential through high‑quality clinical and managerial supervision, structured development opportunities, and access to both internal and external training.
The Clinical Team Manager will provide effective line management within a dynamic primary care setting and will play a key role in the ongoing development and operational delivery of the Talking Therapies service.
Core responsibilities include the provision of regular supervision and performance oversight to ensure safe, effective, and high‑quality care.
The successful candidate will demonstrate strong, engaging leadership skills, underpinned by experience in a leadership role, alongside a clear commitment to delivering safe, compassionate, and patient‑centred care.
Staff wellbeing and development are priorities within the service. The post holder will contribute to the Wellbeing Strategy Group, supporting the development and implementation of initiatives that promote staff wellbeing, engagement, and retention.
In addition to leadership responsibilities, the post holder will deliver psychological interventions as part of the Talking Therapies service, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
The role requires a commitment to a holistic, recovery‑focused model of care, with the ability to work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to improve access, address population need and enhance service delivery.
Job responsibilities
Day‑to‑day management of a locality team, deployment and supervision of staff, and ensuring the coordination of services provided, optimising the cost‑effective use of all resources.
Line management of the team, with overall accountability and responsibility for the delivery of all aspects of patient/client care through the provision of effective clinical and managerial leadership.
Work with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and committing to equal opportunities.
Meet targets set nationally and locally for access, recovery and waiting times.
Provide NICE evidence‑based, outcome‑focused care to service users aged 16+ through the IAPT and CAMHS framework.
Deliver services from community bases as part of a stepped‑care model.
Lead, motivate and support the team approach to delivering new and innovative models of care for service users.
Lead a continuously improving service, ensuring systems are in place to support clinical governance, quality monitoring and ongoing research and audit of practice.
Ensure systems and processes maintain patient safety.
Facilitate the development of clinical expertise and practice within the team.
Work autonomously, assessing individual patient/client needs, initiating investigations, determining a plan of care and initiating appropriate holistic, research‑based health information and care.
Act as a resource for all members of the team, providing expert advice concerning aspects of patient/client management.
Ensure that agreed professional standards are reflected in practice and oversee the standard of care.
Improve the service users’ journey by increasing access to assessment and appropriate care and treatment.
Work collaboratively with multi‑professional teams to ensure practice is efficient, effective, evidence‑based and safe.
Uphold the Trust vision, values, and behavioural compact.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Qualification from a High Intensity IAPT Course (Post Graduate Diploma or Degree)
- AND significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner, demonstrating the required competences.
- OR a recorded/registered doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology, or a post‑graduate qualification training in a psychological therapy (e.g. CBT or another IAPT‑appropriate evidence‑based therapy) to at least the equivalent of a post‑graduate diploma, AND significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner.
- OR Core Profession such as RMN, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, AND significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner.
Training & Other Requirements
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Advanced communication skills.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
- Ability to be self‑reflective whilst working with service users, and in personal and professional development and supervision.
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting integration with the wider health care system.
- Car driver and/or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation.
- Fluent in languages other than English.
- Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multicultural setting.
- Full range of skills and competencies required to deliver relevant services.
- Well‑developed communication skills, orally and in writing, to convey complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, families, carers and professional colleagues.
- Has received training (formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Trained in provision of supervision for CBT or relevant therapy.
- Accredited with a professional psychological therapy organisation.
- Completed clinical audits within a service.
Training
- Able to attend supervision training if not already trained, and other training as the post develops.
- Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this.
Knowledge
- Understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care.
- Knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health, benefits & employment systems.
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
- Understanding the need to use evidence‑based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.
- Knowledge of child protection issues and other relevant legislation.
Experience
- Experience of working in a leadership role.
- Experience in delivering clinical supervision.
- Ability to offer consultation and advice to a broad range of professionals and work cooperatively to deliver joint interventions.
- Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services.
- Ability to meet agreed/service targets.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time.
- High standards in written communication.
- Ability to write clear reports and letters to referrers.
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring.
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups.
- Experience of working in Primary Care services.
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employment and Equal Opportunity
We welcome all applications irrespective of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, or pregnancy/maternity, and especially from under‑represented groups. Our commitment to workforce health and wellbeing is a priority, and we provide access to high‑quality education, training, career progression and support. Flexible working is supported via our Flexible Working Policy.
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