B7 Team Manager - Weymouth

Are you an ambitious and compassionate leader looking to drive high-quality care in addiction recovery? AWP NHS Trustprovides specialized, person-centred health and social care services to 1.6 million people across our region. We are looking for an exceptionalBand 7 Team Manager to lead clincal team within the integrated Reach Drug & Alcohol Services in Dorset (you will be based in Weymouth or Gillingham).,

• Clinical Leadership:Provide visible, compassionate leadership and expert consultation to nursing, medical, and multidisciplinary staff.
• Clinical Governance & Safety:Ensure full compliance with Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards, clinical safety audits, and strict safeguarding procedures.
• Supervision & Development: Deliver robust individual and group clinical supervision, performance appraisals, and continuous professional development (CPD) pathways for Band 6/7 nurses and practitioners.
• Operational Management: Oversee day-to-day service operations, safely manage team workloads, work closely with the wider Reach management team, review of clinical incidents, and hit target Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Multi-Agency Liaison:Maintain strong partnerships and smooth referral pathways with local GP practices, criminal justice stakeholders, and Dorset Council.
  
  2. Experienced Non-Registered Leaderswith a proven track record of managing complex health, social care, or substance misuse services.
You will combine outstanding leadership with efficient operational management. You will oversee specialised substance misuse pathways, including complex community detoxification protocols, Opiate Substitution Treatment (OST), harm reduction initiatives, and shared care agreements with primary health sectors.

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.