Band 7 Outreach Team Manager - Bristol

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 persons 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.