Job summary
- Main area
- Learning disability, autism and mental health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible working pattern 08:00 - 20:00 Monday to Friday excluding Bank Holidays)
- Job ref
- 342-SS091-0826
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blackberry Hill Hospital
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Band 7 Outreach Team Manager – Bristol
Band 7
Job overview
Do you bring passion and commitment to delivering high quality care? Do you understand the clinical and sensory needs of people living with a learning disability and or autism? If so this role will provide you with a rare and exciting career opportunity to be part of our new service implementation.
Avon and Wiltshire Partnership (AWP) are looking for an exceptional person to provide leadership to deliver our vision of excellent care for people with a learning disability and autistic people supported by our specialist acute mental health inpatient service and outreach team.
AWP are working with SW NHSE to provide a new inpatient facility as part of the transformation of end-to-end pathways in the region. We aim to be a centre of excellence. The services are being designed and developed with clinicians and people with lived experience.
You will be instrumental in the ongoing development, implementation and delivery of the clinical and operational model for the outreach element of the service, delivering admission prevention strategies and supporting planned admissions and discharges.
We will support you to develop your clinical knowledge and skills and to further develop your operational and management leadership skills as part of the expanding expertise in learning disabilities and neurodiversity within AWP making this an exciting career opportunity.
Main duties of the job
To inspire, lead and evaluate a service of high quality, ensuring that people who have a Learning Disability and Autism are provided with a high-quality person-centred approach to care delivery that always considers people’s safety, privacy and dignity.
Work alongside the Advanced Clinical Practitioner and Matron to be a clinical and operational lead figurehead for The Kingfisher outreach service, utilising the best use of resources, ensuring the care and treatment activities delivered are safe, effective, caring and responsive to the needs and preferences of service users and carers. The role integrates aspects of clinical management, a small complex caseload and triage assessment, employee support, day to day operational leadership and service accountability.
For further details, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for this position.
Working for our organisation
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Scope & Range
Lead and have operational responsibility for the clinical management of the Kingfisher Outreach Service, ensuring mechanisms are in place to support, develop and monitor all aspects of performance.
Facilitate a learning environment that coaches and trains others to develop advanced clinical skills, e.g. specialist assessment, planning, formulation and evaluation for individuals with a learning disability and/or autism with a treatable mental illness.
Provide an enhanced role and expertise that aims to prevent unnecessary acute psychiatric hospital admissions and, where safe, appropriate and in the person’s best interests, keep patients in their own homes, facilitating effective hospital discharge from the Kingfisher inpatient service.
Clinical Practice Leadership
Be a clinical leader across the community environment, responsible for operational management and accountable for the quality of all clinical activity within the designated area.
Hold a small caseload of highly complex service users for time-limited interventions, assessment and triage.
Provide confidential, sensitive and comprehensive person-centred assessments of the full range of patient safety and wellbeing needs (including risk, behavioural and mental state assessments).
Work with the team to ensure that every service user has a SMART, person-centred, evidence-based and holistic care and treatment plan, ensuring service users are supported to reach the optimum level of independence and that robust processes are in place to keep such plans under continual review.
Work with the team to ensure that service users can take an active role in the assessment, management and evaluation of their care and treatment plan, as well as all relevant risk and personal safety plans.
Empower service users to be at the centre of their care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision-making and promoting health and independence through awareness-raising and care navigation to other professionals as appropriate.
Communication & Relationships
Work closely with key internal and external personnel, including social care, housing and non-statutory agencies.
Present information, some of which may be contentious, to staff groups, service user groups, carer groups and other stakeholders using a range of techniques and media.
Participate in, and where necessary chair, clinical and core group meetings, and work collaboratively with colleagues in the multi-professional team.
Provide a high standard of written and verbal communication, as well as documentation that is clear and in line with Trust documentation standards.
Communicate with individuals, carers and other visitors in a courteous and helpful manner, whilst being mindful that there may be barriers to understanding.
For further details, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for this position.
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Health and Social Care Professional (e.g. Registered Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Allied Health Professional etc.)
- Certificated evidence of relevant Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in Management and/or leadership
- PBM & PBS Trained
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Substantial post-registration clinical practice, and experience of leading/supervising
- Significant demonstrable experience of leading teams in the effective delivery of care
Desirable criteria
- Experience of organisational change, transformation or cultural development work
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including coherent data presentation and reporting
- Ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate programmes of care and treatment, including the component activities and tasks within such programmes
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Driving license with access to a car
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chris Ward
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07889104379
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