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

Job overview   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.

  Main duties of the job   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.