Band 8b Transfer of Care Hub Service Manager - Bristol / Bath

Working creatively to help make sure that people in acute mental health crisis have the right care in the right place at the right time is critical to success in leading the implementation of our Transfer of Care Hubs (ToCHs). Central to this is working closely with inpatient and crisis/ intensive services across AWP to embed the principles of GIRFT (Get if Right First Time).

The aim is to support people to be admitted to hospital at the right time and to help people to return home at the earliest opportunity.

The intended outcome is that we are able to care for people in inpatient settings as close to home as possible and thereby achieve our ambition to reduce inappropriate out of area placements., We will have two ToCHs - one covering Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire and the other covering Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

The ToCHs will work closely together to manage across our Trustwide bed base and to provide each other with peer supervision and support. You will be an experienced manager, with clinical experience in the acute mental health pathway (inpatients or community).

Your role will be to establish and manage a ToCH, working closely with your counterpart to align processes and cross-cover. This is a unique opportunity to set the tone and culture right from the start.

Our vision is that the ToCHs become multi-agency in nature. You will work with the local Health and Social Care system to attract Local Authority, Voluntary and Community Sector and ICB support into the ToCH. Reporting directly into the Divisional Director of Operations, this is a critical and high profile role within each Division.

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.