Lead a Team That Changes Lives
Band 7 Team Leader – STaRS, Townend Court
Ready to lead a service that transforms lives?
STaRS is a specialist, high-intensity recovery service supporting adults with complex and enduring mental health needs. We're looking for a compassionate, resilient, and dynamic Team Leader to guide our multidisciplinary team and help people achieve meaningful recovery.
This is a rewarding opportunity to combine operational leadership with clinical practice. You'll lead day-to-day service delivery, support staff wellbeing, manage risk and performance, and maintain a small caseload to stay connected to the people we support.
We're looking for someone who:
Inspires, motivates, and develops others
Confidently manages complex risk, demand, and capacity
Champions recovery-focused, trauma-informed care
Has experience supporting adults with severe and enduring mental health needs
Builds strong partnerships across services and agencies.
What we offer:
A supportive and experienced leadership network
Opportunities for development, innovation, and career progression
A compassionate, reflective, and collaborative team culture
Join STaRS at Townend Court and help shape the future of specialist community mental health care.
Key responsibilities:
Operational Leadership
To support the Service Manager, Senior Clinical Lead and other colleagues within the service area.
To provide operational line management and supervision to allocated staff.
Ensure staff receive annual performance appraisals aligned with the Trust's policy and strategy.
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Contribute to identifying/reviewing/re-designing services in response to user need, ensuring a safe, high-quality level of service is maintained.
Manage complex, challenging and changing situations,
Obtains, analyses, and interprets information for key performance indicators/outcome.
Planning and Organising
To manage a number of complex activities e.g., the demands placed on the service area, staffing levels, data to inform and support service provision.
Ensure the team have procedures and systems to support the delivery of a high standard of service.
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Policy and Service Development
Accountable for ensuring that practice and policy changes are implemented.
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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You will be responsible for supporting the leadership team to develop both the service and workforce, leading the delivery of effective, high-quality care across the team, and providing line management and clinical leadership to staff. The role also involves the presentation, interpretation, and analysis of complex information and performance reports to support service improvement and decision-making.
For further information about this vacancy, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
