Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (We recognise that colleagues may have additional requirements regarding their working hours. Please do contact us if you wish to discuss this further)
- Job ref
- 350-CC8053902
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hollins Park Hospital
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/07/2026
Employer heading
Clinical Team Manager
Band 7
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Job overview
Clinical Team Manager – Specialist Perinatal Service
We are seeking a dynamic, innovative, and passionate Team Manager to lead the Mid-Mersey Specialist Perinatal Team (MM SPT), supporting communities in Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington, and Halton.
The Specialist Perinatal Service, jointly provided by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust (MCFT) and Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP), delivers specialist assessment and treatment to mothers, birthing people, babies, and families from pregnancy to 24 months, with particular focus on perinatal loss and trauma.
Perinatal mental health is a national priority. The post-holder will provide operational, leadership, and clinical support to the team, ensuring equitable, safe, and high-quality care, contributing to service transformation, and maintaining team stability and continuity during the maternity leave period.
The role involves building strong relationships with key partners and stakeholders, working collaboratively to meet the current and future needs of the population, and responding flexibly to workforce and service challenges. A pragmatic, solutions-focused approach is essential to manage complex issues while sustaining a high-performing team.
This post offers an exciting opportunity to lead, influence transformational work, and make a lasting impact on perinatal mental health services across the Mid-Mersey region and wider perinatal mental health landscape.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the overall standards which will include referral management and access, assessment of need and delivery of care within Specialist Perinatal Service.
The post holder will operate as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team and be flexible in terms of travel to undertake duties.
The post-holder carries continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, and the setting of standards of care within that team.
The post holder may be required to work flexibly across all divisional sites to provide response to the service needs of the physical and mental health clinical teams providing cover as directed by the Service Manager to ensure continuity of a quality service provision.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide a role model for others in the delivery of high-quality clinical care and be reliable and consistent in own approach to work commitments
Ensure clear communications strategies are in place for the dissemination of information to the team within defined clinical area.
Communicate complex information across organisational boundaries to ensure the understanding of patient health needs, service development requirements and provision.
Maintain effective communication both within and outside the clinical team to ensure that patient needs are met by the most appropriate agency
Effectively communicate verbally, in written and electronic format
Maintain contemporaneous clinical records in line with Community Division/ CYP&F / Trust clinical records policies
Carry out your duties in a way that supports the Trust values in all participation with patients, carers, work colleagues, people in other organisations and members of the public.
Work within the requirements of the CYP&F SPMMHS instructions and policies.
Analytical and Judgmental Skills
Be vigilant to service needs and prioritise unpredictable issues that require sustained attention despite competing issues
Ensure that there is a clearly defined model of care and that all staff understand and can articulate how the model affects their practice
Be responsible for dealing with formal and informal complaints in line with the Trust and local procedure for managing complaints
Planning and Organisational Skills
Responsible for the line management of the team within SPMMHS, this will include the development of clear leadership and supervision arrangements
Develop and use flexible and innovative approaches to practice that are appropriate to the needs of the patient group, and which are in line with the goals of the Trust.
Ensure clinical standards are developed and maintained and that corrective action is taken where practice falls short of the desired standard
Patient/Client Care
Manage care packages including holistic assessment, planning, monitoring and evaluation of complex care packages, utilising recognised models and tools.
Provide relevant clinical information, education and support for women and birthing people, babies, children and young people, family members, carers and other relevant professionals
Work in partnership with other health & social care / multidisciplinary team colleagues, voluntary and statutory organisations to ensure that the health and social care needs of the service users in SPMMHS are identified.
Ensure all aspects of Care are delivered to the highest possible standard.
Be the primary contact for clinical issues including the coordination and facilitation of responses to concerns, incident reports and complaints and requirements for performance information
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Clinical professional registration
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Willing to undertake a management qualification
- Degree qualification relevant to field of practice or demonstrable evidence of study at a higher level
Desirable criteria
- Management Qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialist expertise underpinned by theory
- Post registration experience in a senior role within Mental health, Parent Infant, or complex needs services
- Line management responsibilities and experience.
- Able to demonstrate a history of leading on clinical care improvement initiative.
- To be able to travel around the area of work
Desirable criteria
- Experience of staff performance managements
- Recent relevant experience of leading a team and providing care in a secure setting
- Experience of working within perinatal and/or maternal mental health services
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent Interpersonal skills
- Emotional resilience
- Ability to prioritise workload, work at a fast pace and meet deadlines.
- Ability to analyse problems, gather relevant information and exercise sound judgement in reaching the most appropriate conclusions.
- Good organisational skills, experienced in applying and implementing systems to manage workload.
- Able to manage and support staff through organisational change.
- Ability to manage own time effectively produce detailed reports/written work to a high standard and on time
- Ability to organise and plan ahead effectively
- Ability to manage revenue budgets
- Ability to deal with difficult issues sensitively and diplomatically
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of current mental health legislation
- Methodical approach to work with attention to detail
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Catherine Briars
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07557 185 188
- Additional information
We encourage candidates contact the team for informal conversations about the role.
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