Band 7 Outreach Team Manager – Bristol

Job summary

Do you bring passion and commitment to delivering high quality care? Do you understand the clinical and sensory needs of people living with a learning disability and or autism? If so this role will provide you with a rare and exciting career opportunity to be part of our new service implementation.

Avon and Wiltshire Partnership (AWP) are looking for an exceptional person to provide leadership to deliver our vision of excellent care for people with a learning disability and autistic people supported by our specialist acute mental health inpatient service and outreach team.

AWP are working with SW NHSE to provide a new inpatient facility as part of the transformation of end-to-end pathways in the region. We aim to be a centre of excellence. The services are being designed and developed with clinicians and people with lived experience.

You will be instrumental in the ongoing development, implementation and delivery of the clinical and operational model for the outreach element of the service, delivering admission prevention strategies and supporting planned admissions and discharges.

We will support you to develop your clinical knowledge and skills and to further develop your operational and management leadership skills as part of the expanding expertise in learning disabilities and neurodiversity within AWP making this an exciting career opportunity.

Main duties of the job

To inspire, lead and evaluate a service of high quality, ensuring that people who have a Learning Disability and Autism are provided with a high-quality person-centred approach to care delivery that always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity.

Work alongside the Advanced Clinical Practitioner and Matron to be a clinical and operational lead figurehead for The Kingfisher outreach service, utilising the best use of resources, ensuring the care and treatment activities delivered are safe, effective, caring and responsive to the needs and preferences of service users and carers. The role integrates aspects of clinical management, a small complex caseload and triage assessment, employee support, day to day operational leadership and service accountability.

For further details, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for this position.

About us

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

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.

Details

Date posted

18 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

342-SS091-0826

Job locations

Blackberry Hill Hospital

Manor Road, Fishponds

Bristol

BS16 2EW

United Kingdom