Senior Assertive Outreach Practitioner

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

The Team is committed to delivering safe, compassionate and high-quality care across all services.