Band 7 IN-CS Women's Pathway Lead - Bristol

1. To contribute to the achievement of corporate and Strategic Business Unit objectives by leading effective management of the IN-CS Women's pathway.
2. To take management responsibility for the delivery of services across your nominated responsibility and to ensure safe and effective services for our service users.
3. To work alongside your manager and contribute to help developments in strategic thinking, National Drivers and Trust Policy.
4. To liaise at a local level with Service Users, Carers, Staff and Partners in both statutory and non-statutory fields, ensuring that there is shared understanding of service provision and commitments.
5. To be responsible for the delivery of Health and Safety responsibilities as required by statute, regulation, legal obligation and Trust policies within the defined area you're responsible for.
6. To ensure full compliance of all staff within the area of operational management, with key mechanisms to support the clinical delivery of safe and affective services, Health and Social Care data entry, incident reporting, serious untoward incident review and complaints.

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

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.

You will receive excellent support and supervision from well-established management and therapies teams. There will be opportunities for continuing professional development and development of innovative research projects. We have close links to the University of Bath, the University of Exeter and the University of South Wales.

Issues of diversity, accessibility and equality of access are priorities for any successful applicant.