Alcohol Assertive Outreach Lead Clinician - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
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1 month ago

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The Alcohol Assertive Outreach service is an innovative team of clinicians working with patients who frequently use local hospital and mental health services and aim to help reduce attendances through good quality supportive key working.

The team work with a small caseload of around 20 patients each. You will hold day to day management responsibility for the small clinical team, ensuring high standards of clinical care are maintained but the majority of the work is direct clinical care


You will support the Clinical Service Lead to look at ways the team can optimize their work with particular mind to expanding the way the team works with other mental health services.


  • To manage a small case load, assessing the individual's needs, formulating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating care plans.
  • Ensure that clinical practice is developed and delivered safely and effectively, ensuring that staff have the appropriate skills and knowledge to carry out their duties.
  • Ensure that staff receive regular supervision and appraisal and are offered mandatory and developmental training in accordance with their personal development plans and the needs of the service.
  • Maintain accurate and timely clinical records, and ensuring relevant information is shared across the services delivering care.
  • To be involved in the development of local guidance and policies and to have a key role in their implementation.
  • Participate in clinical audit, service evaluation and research. Initiate, assist or co
- operate with the evaluation of the post.

  • To ensure compliance with Trust targets relating to CQUIN, CQC, Complaints, SUIs, Health and Safety standards.
  • Appropriate use of resources, ensuring that these are managed within the team budget


SLaM is part of Kings Health Partners, an Academic Health Science Centre, comprising of Kings College Hospital, Guys and St Thomas Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts and Kings College London.

This partnership ensures that developments and research feed directly into clinical practice.

Trust services are primarily focused on people with severe and enduring mental illness.

However, we also promote good mental health, early intervention to prevent more serious problems and provide support to primary care in dealing with people who have less severe problems.

The Addictions CAG provides a wide range of interventions across tiers 2, 3 and 4. This is either directly or through partnerships and close collaboration with primary care.


We have a strong community focus and our services are provided in a wide range of settings, including people's own homes, GP practices, day centers, residential and nursing homes, prisons and hospitals.

The Alcohol Assertive Outreach Team is an intensive outreach which has been developed to target patients who are resident in Southwark and Lambeth boroughs and who have frequent alcohol related admissions to hospitals across the Kings Health Partnership


Alcohol-related frequent attenders (or ARFAs) place a disproportionate strain on NHS resources, and can often have severe and complex needs that are better dealt with outside of the acute hospital setting, in order to achieve real and lasting health and wellbeing improvements.

The clinicians on the team will offer intensive case management to a small group (approx. 15)of clients over a 12 month period.
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