# Senior Assertive Outreach Practitioner

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Uxbridge
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £55524.00 to £62652.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Team Lead to join our newly established Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) in Hillingdon.

This is a key leadership role within a transformational model of care, designed to support individuals with severe mental illness who are at risk of disengagement and require intensive, proactive community-based support.

The Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) role is fundamentally a patient-facing position, focused on engaging and managing individuals who are often reluctant to engage with services. Given the nature of this work, requiring proactive outreach, direct contact, and consistent face-to-face intervention, the role is not suitable for remote or hybrid working arrangements.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide clinical and operational leadership to a multidisciplinary outreach team

- Ensure delivery of high-intensity, assertive engagement, including home visits and community-based care

- Lead on risk management, safety planning and complex clinical decision-making for a high-risk cohort

- Deliver and embed a model based on:

- Persistent engagement

- No discharge due to non-attendance

- Proactive, flexible contact with patients

- Provide line management, supervision and support to team members

- Oversee team performance, caseloads and quality of care delivery

- Work collaboratively with CMHT/CMHH, Crisis Teams, inpatient services and partner agencies to ensure coordinated care pathways

**About us**

- The Team is committed to delivering safe, compassionate and high-quality care across all services.

- The Assertive Outreach Team is a new and developing service, offering:

- The opportunity to shape and lead a new model of care

- A strong focus on patient safety, engagement and outcomes

- A supportive multidisciplinary environment with clear leadership oversight

- Opportunities for professional development within a growing Trust-wide model

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £55,524 to £62,652 per annum

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Permanent, full-time contract

**Requirements**

- Registered mental health professional (e.g. RMN, OT, Social Worker)

- Experience working with complex mental health needs and high-risk patients

- Experience of clinical leadership, supervision and team management

- Strong skills in risk assessment, care planning and crisis management

- Experience of community-based or outreach working

- Driving licence and access to a vehicle for work

## Skills

### Required
- mental health
- clinical leadership
- risk assessment
- care planning
- crisis management
- community-based working

### Nice to have
- assertive outreach
- crisis services
- urgent care settings
- service development

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