Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Deputy Team Manager - Assertive Outreach
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Would you relish a leadership opportunity in a brand new service?
We are delighted to invite applications for a Deputy Team Manager role within our newly established Assertive Outreach Team (AOT).
This innovative service will provide high-quality, person-centred care to individuals with complex mental health needs who may struggle to engage with traditional services. Operating across Oxford, the team will deliver proactive, flexible support, responding to need in a timely and coordinated manner.
Assertive Outreach is founded on active engagement rather than office-based care. Staff will work flexibly across the city, supporting individuals in community settings, their homes or Trust premises. Interventions will be tailored, relationship-focused and recovery-oriented, promoting continuity, trust and consistent engagement. Shared caseload responsibility, alongside a key worker model and regular MDT reviews, will enable rapid responses to relapse, risk and disengagement.
We are seeking motivated and compassionate professionals who are committed to supporting some of the most vulnerable people in our communities. You will be confident in managing complexity and dynamic risk, while working within a recovery-focused, trauma-informed framework. This is an opportunity to help shape a new service and make a meaningful difference across Oxford.
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The Band 7 Deputy Team Manager for the Oxfordshire Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) provides senior clinical leadership and operational support to deliver high-quality, safe and recovery-focused care for adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties who experience significant challenges in engaging with services.
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The Team will be a fully integrated multidisciplinary service comprising a Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Team Manager, Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Support Workers and Administrators.
You Will
- Act as a clinical expert, advancing the development of clinical practice.
- Provide evidence-based holistic patient care within a variety of settings, inclusive of the patient’s residence and care settings within the community, from assessment of presenting condition through to diagnosis, treatment and discharge, including the administration of medication within agreed clinical guidelines and protocols.
- Completing all relevant PROMS in the planning and implementation of care plans.
- Diagnose, assess, plan and implement patient-specific programmes of care/interventions, contributing to the continuous assessment of patients.
- Perform advanced clinical skills in the assessment of patients, including taking a clinical history and evaluating clinical information to produce an appropriate differential diagnosis.
- Act as a resource for the non-medical team within the community directorate, the trust and the wider health community as required.
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As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Aidan Harker
Job title: Service Manager
Email address: aidan.harker@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07786913876
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