Would you like to lead a friendly, supportive team who are passionate about improving the lives of service users experiencing organic and functional mental health conditions, and their families?

This is an exciting position to work as the Team Manager of the BaNES Older Adults Community Mental health team, which is an integrated service consisting of both health and local authority staff. The Older Adults service offers holistic assessment and intervention, covering pathways across; Access, Care Home liaison, and Secondary mental health.

We are seeking a motivated, and passionate individual with experience of working with Older Adults with both functional and organic illnesses. The interested party will be required to provide real time performance management, visible and accessible leadership and guidance to staff in the team. They will be required to have an oversight of quality improvement and change management which remain core service priorities at this present time. They will also strive to take a collaborative approach across the service, as well as providing clear direction and harnessing the strengths of others. The individual will strive to hold AWP core values at the centre of their leadership and encourage those within their line of management to strive for gold standard care.

Our core values are Passion, Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence., We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 7 Team Manager, to support the team through a period of change linked with national changes in line with CMHF. The post holder will manage, direct and lead a person centred, multi-disciplinary integrated team in a community mental health setting, Trust and national service models for the provision of mental health care in line with defined practice within the Strategic Business Unit, and to evidence this through defined performance measures.

You will support your colleagues in a managerial capacity to deliver evidenced based, patient centred, recovery focussed care.

You will manage the BaNES Older Adults CMHT Team to deliver high quality interventions across the locality. You will support the flow of service users who are receiving treatment for a wide range of mental health presentations in the community. You will also work closely with our inpatient units, intensive teams and third sector colleagues.

The post holder would require excellent organisation, managerial and communication skills. If you are wishing to develop and enhance your skills in a very central and crucial role, please get in touch.

This is a Monday-Friday 9-5pm role.

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.