Band 7 Substance Use Team Leader - Weston-super-Mare

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust in Weston-super-Mare invites applications for a post to develop and lead a defined drug, alcohol and gambling harm service for veterans across the Southwest. You will liaise with local providers, monitor outcomes, and ensure access to accredited services.

The role involves coordinating a multidisciplinary team, delivering evidence-based interventions, and fostering joint care plans for veterans with complex needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead a defined drug, alcohol, and gambling harm service for veterans across the Southwest.
• Liaise with local statutory and voluntary providers to establish veteran-specific pathways.
• Develop outcome measures and monitor Drug and Alcohol KPIs.
• Ensure access to accredited statutory services and trauma-focused interventions.
• Maintain shared care for dual diagnosis veterans to address mental health and addictions.
• Attend team meetings and Trust/Op Courage training, some travel within the footprint.

Job description

Southwest Op Courage Integrated Veterans Mental Health Service covers Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Dorset; our operational base is in Weston-Super-Mare. The service is one of six national NHS England commissioned Op Courage services and is delivered by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust in partnership with five other sub-contracted services. Op Courage provides a complete pathway, delivered by a Multi-Disciplinary Team and starting with a comprehensive needs-led conversation in line with Your Team, Your Care and Your Plan; it is followed by evidence-based interventions/treatment for a wide range of need and complexity, from the early signs of mental health problems through to complex mental health difficulties and psychological trauma. The postholder will need to live within the Southwest and will be assigned to cover an agreed area. For those living within the AWP footprint (i.e. Bristol, Wiltshire etc.), they will be assigned to their nearest AWP base. For staff who live outside the AWP footprint i.e. in Devon or Cornwall, and do not have a local AWP base, travel expenses will start after 10 miles travel each way. The postholder will also be expected to attend face-to-face team meetings and Trust training which will be within the Op Courage footprint but may be outside their usual working area.

• Develop and lead a defined drug, alcohol, and gambling harm service for veterans across the Southwest. This will include liaising with key local providers, including statutory and voluntary organisations, to establish and maintain veteran specific pathways.
• Develop specific outcome measures, monitor and lead on Drug and Alcohol Key Performance Indicators.
• Lead on ensuring that veterans can access accredited/statutory substance misuse and addiction services and to support the veteran to access trauma focused interventions delivered by Op Courage.
• Ensure that veterans with a dual diagnosis of mental health and substance misuse have shared care arrangements in place to ensure both their mental health needs together with drug and alcohol addictions are addressed, to reduce harm and support their recovery.
• Have a small, allocated caseload of service users and will ensure that for all veterans on caseload with substance use and/or gambling harm, assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of treatment and care is evidence-based, coordinated, and meets assessed needs.
• Offer specific substance misuse training to the wider team Attend occasional external weekend events to support promotion of the service i.e. at Armed Forces days.

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. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kate Purser Job title: Service Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01380 712258