The closing date is 30th Jun 2026
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Job summary
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 activity
Maintaining oversight of safeguarding and clinical risk within the service
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Main duties, tasks & skills required
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
Key skills required:
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
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About us
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
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Job description
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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Person specification
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Qualifications
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Essential
Professional qualification (e.g. Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work)
Current professional registration
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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For help with your application, contact:
Rachel Makgatho
[email protected]
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Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
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Band
Band 7
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Salary
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£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly
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Contract
Permanent
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Working pattern
Full-Time
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Reference number
348-MNH-11672
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Job locations
Parklands House
London Road
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG21 4AP
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Attachments
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Job Description
CRT - B7 Team Lead.docx – 150KB Opens in a new window
Converted File CRT - B7 Team Lead.docx.pdf – 260KB Opens in a new window
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Additional document 1
EmployeeBenefits_hiowh_v1-compressed_3.pdf – 1001KB Opens in a new window
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