Team Manager – Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Are you seeking a leadership opportunity in mental health and a brand new service? Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to invite applications for a Team Manager role within our newly established Assertive Outreach Team (AOT).
This innovative service will provide high‑quality, person‑centred care to individuals with complex mental health needs who may struggle to engage with traditional services. Operating across Oxford, the team will deliver proactive, flexible support, responding to need in a timely and coordinated manner.
Assertive Outreach is founded on active engagement rather than office‑based care. Staff will work flexibly across the city, supporting individuals in community settings, their homes or Trust premises. Interventions will be tailored, relationship‑focused and recovery‑oriented, promoting continuity, trust and consistent engagement. Shared caseload responsibility, alongside a key worker model and regular MDT reviews, will enable rapid responses to relapse, risk and disengagement.
Responsibilities
- Ensure that clinical competencies and skill mix along with the clinical leads within the service meet the demands of the service and the requirements of clinical governance. This will include ensuring that service standards and evidence based clinical guidelines are in place, implemented and monitored.
- Ensure that the workload is distributed fairly across the team and the team runs smoothly and effectively.
- Line‑manage staff within the area of responsibility in the service.
- Be actively involved in the recruitment of all staff in the area of responsibility and ensure appropriate induction is provided.
- Ensure annual performance reviews are undertaken with all staff and that appropriate training and mechanisms for auditing this are in place.
- Be accountable for all capability, disciplinary and grievance procedures which may arise within the service and a point of any conflict resolution in the team.
Benefits
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
