Deputy Team Leader

Are you an experienced mental health professional ready to take the next step in your leadership journey?

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and compassionate clinician to join our leadership team as Deputy Team Lead within Newcastle Adult Community Mental Health Team, based at the Lyme Brook Centre on the Bradwell Hospital site. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your leadership skills whilst continuing to make a real difference to the lives of people accessing secondary mental health services.

Working closely alongside the Team Lead, you will play a key role in the day-to-day running of a busy and dynamic Community Mental Health Team, supporting staff, influencing service development and helping to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality care.

At Lyme Brook Centre, we are proud of our supportive, collaborative and forward-thinking culture. Our multidisciplinary team includes Community Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, Pharmacists, Support Workers, Nursing Associates, Administrators and students working together to deliver outstanding care for the people of Newcastle-under-Lyme and surrounding communities.

We are committed to continuous improvement, staff wellbeing and creating an environment where individuals feel valued, supported and empowered to achieve their full potential., As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.