# Senior Assertive Outreach Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-assertive-outreach-practitioner/f4b67655-8837-43b1-81d6-0413ddb4e167 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-assertive-outreach-practitioner/f4b67655-8837-43b1-81d6-0413ddb4e167.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** HMP Bronzefield - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Practitioner - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 30 hours per week (7 day working week) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-09T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-26T10:30:38.297Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Uxbridge/Central_North_West_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_CMHH_Assertive_Outreach/Community_CMHH_Assertive_Outreach-v8255807 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8255807?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Team Lead to join our newly established Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) in Hillingdon. This is a key leadership role within a transformational model of care, designed to support individuals with severe mental illness who are at risk of disengagement and require intensive, proactive community-based support. This is a high-impact, community-focused role, where you will lead a team delivering care directly to patients in their homes and local communities, ensuring no one is lost to follow-up. The Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) role is fundamentally a patient-facing position, focused on engaging and managing individuals who are often reluctant to engage with services. Given the nature of this work, requiring proactive outreach, direct contact, and consistent face-to-face intervention, the role is not suitable for remote or hybrid working arrangements. ### Main duties of the job - Provide clinical and operational leadership to a multidisciplinary outreach team - Ensure delivery of high-intensity, assertive engagement, including home visits and community-based care - Lead on risk management, safety planning and complex clinical decision-making for a high-risk cohort - Deliver and embed a model based on: - Persistent engagement - No discharge due to non-attendance - Proactive, flexible contact with patients - Provide line management, supervision and support to team members - Oversee team performance, caseloads and quality of care delivery - Work collaboratively with CMHT/CMHH, Crisis Teams, inpatient services and partner agencies to ensure coordinated care pathways - Going out to patients - Maintaining engagement when others disengage - Providing practical support that prevents crisis - Not clinic based ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Essential: - Registered mental health professional (e.g. RMN, OT, Social Worker) - Experience working with complex mental health needs and high-risk patients - Experience of clinical leadership, supervision and team management - Strong skills in risk assessment, care planning and crisis management - Experience of community-based or outreach working - Driving licence and access to a vehicle for work Desirable: - Experience in assertive outreach, crisis or urgent care services - Experience of service development or transformation ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience working with individuals with complex mental health needs and high risk - Experience of working with disengaged or hard-to-engage service users in a community setting - Experience of risk assessment, safety planning and crisis management - Experience of leading or supervising staff within a clinical team - Experience of operational management (e.g. rota management, performance, workload oversight) - Experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working **Desirable** - Experience of service development or mobilisation of new models of care - Experience in assertive outreach, crisis services or urgent care settings ### Education & Qualifications **Essential** - Registered professional qualification (e.g. RMN, OT, Social Worker or equivalent) - Current professional registration (NMC, HCPC, Social Work England) - Evidence of post-registration training relevant to mental health / community services **Desirable** - Leadership or management qualification or training - Training in Psychosocial Interventions Other relevant training, e.g. psychosocial interventions - Counselling qualification - Venepuncture qualification - ECG application qualification ## Documents - [cnwl values (pdf, 182.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1162) - [cnwl staff charter (pdf, 684.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2868) - [cnwl staff networks (pdf, 320.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1160) - [cnwl reward and wellbeing handbook 2020 (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1773) - [cnwl culture scarf behaviour framework (pdf, 710.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2869) - [senior assertive outreach practitioner (pdf, 816.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10568898) - [accommodation information for new starters (pdf, 120.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2438) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.