Team Leader

We are recruiting a Band 7 Team Lead to lead a newly established Community Rehabilitation Team (CRT) within the Mid and North Hampshire Division. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and lead a community-based rehabilitation service, supporting adults with complex mental health needs to achieve recovery and independence in the least restrictive environment. You will provide clinical and operational leadership, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, recovery-focused care across multiple localities, while driving service development and integration with system partners. The service focuses on functional recovery and independence, delivering flexible, community-based interventions across multiple localities. As Team Leader, key elements of the role include:

• Providing leadership to a multidisciplinary team delivering rehabilitation interventions
• Ensuring consistent delivery of care aligned to evidence-based practice and NICE guidance
• Overseeing service performance, including waiting times, caseloads and outcomes
• Supporting smooth transitions between inpatient and community services
• Leading collaboration across system partners to improve pathways and integration
• Driving quality improvement, audit and service evaluation activityMaintaining oversight of safeguarding and clinical risk within the service, The post holder will:
• Provide clinical and operational leadership for the Community Rehabilitation Team across Mid & North localities
• Lead the delivery of a NICE-compliant rehabilitation service for individuals with complex psychosis
• Oversee team performance, ensuring high standards of quality, safety and access
• Maintain a reduced but complex caseload, supporting service users with significant rehabilitation needs
• Coordinate multidisciplinary working, ensuring effective care planning and risk management
• Support the development of integrated pathways with primary care, acute services, social care and VCSE partners
• Lead on demand, capacity and flow, ensuring effective use of workforce and resources
• Oversee referral management and decision-making processes
• Contribute to service development, transformation and improvement programmes
  
  Strong leadership and decision-making skills
• Ability to manage complex clinical and operational demands
• Excellent communication and partnership working skills
• Strong understanding of recovery-focused rehabilitation and complex psychosis
• Ability to analyse data and use performance information to drive improvement
  
  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support. Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence