Job overview
Band 6 Full Time Qualified Assertive Outreach Worker (Nurse / OT / Social Worker) at Community Mental Health Hub (Brent)
Make engagement happen. Prevent crisis. Change trajectories. We’re building a focused Assertive Outreach (AO) offer within our Community Mental Health Hub to reach adults with severe mental illness (SMI) who are at risk of disengaging from care. If you thrive on meaningful relationship‑building, rapid decision‑making, and real‑world impact, this role is for you.
About the role: As an Assertive Outreach Worker, you’ll be the consistent, trusted keyworker for a small caseload, delivering time‑limited, intensive support over a stepped 6‑month model. You’ll combine clinical skill with creativity and persistence—meeting people where they are, in homes and community spaces across Brent—to stabilise engagement, reduce risk, and prevent crisis.
Main duties of the job
The Assertive Outreach Worker will deliver time‑limited and intensive support to adults with severe mental illness (SMI) who are at risk of disengaging from care. The role is central to stabilising engagement, reducing risk, and preventing crisis escalation, in line with the Assertive Outreach Standard Operating Procedure.
The postholder will:
- Provide assertive, flexible, and persistent outreach, including home visits, community‑based contacts, and phone/text engagement
- Act as a consistent keyworker, building therapeutic relationships with individuals who find it difficult to engage with services.
- Work within a stepped 6‑month model of intensive support, transition, and reintegration into routine CMHH care.
- Deliver holistic, person‑centred interventions addressing mental health, physical health, housing, substance use, and social needs.
- Work collaboratively with the CMHH MDT, crisis services, inpatient wards, and external agencies to ensure continuity of care and safe transitions.
This role requires strong clinical skills, excellent risk management, and the ability to work autonomously in the community.
Working for our organisation
You will be in a friendly and supportive environment, where we encourage personal and professional development.
You will be based within the Community Mental Health Hub within a large multi‑disciplinary team.
There is access to in‑house and Trust‑wide training to support you in developing clinical and leadership skills.
We have community mental health hubs based in Park Royal and Kingsbury. The team will work across both sites depending on need.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide intensive outreach in line with the SOP:
- First 3 months: minimum 3 contact attempts per week, aiming for 1–2 successful contacts.
- Next 3 months: minimum 2 contact attempts per week.
- Deliver flexible contact through home visits, community meetings, phone calls, texts, and occasional evening/weekend availability.
- Maintain a “no discharge for DNA” approach, using persistent and creative engagement strategies.
- Build strong therapeutic relationships through empathy, reliability, and trauma‑informed practice.
- Provide continuity and consistency as the allocated AO keyworker.
- Complete and update care plans, risk assessments, and safety plans in line with Trust policy.
- Conduct frequent dynamic risk assessments and elevate concerns promptly.
- Lead on transition planning back to routine CMHH care.
- Ensure timely documentation of all contact attempts, outcomes, and risk assessments.
- Work collaboratively with the CMHH Care Coordinator where this is a separate role.
- Deliver meaningful intervention.
- Use therapeutic engagement to support patients to engage.
- Supervise band 4 support staff.
- Hold caseload of 10‑15 patients.
Qualifications
- Current NMC registration / or equivalent Allied Health Professional with current professional registration
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent
- Post Graduate management training/qualification
Experience
- Substantial experience of working in the community mental health
- Experience of supervision of junior staff
- Experience of working with complex and high‑risk patients with SMI
- Experience of organising and chairing of small and large steering groups.
- Experience of policy development and strategic planning and clinical governance development resulting in change management projects/programmes.
- Experience of successful interagency partnership working
- Experience in working with patients who have dual diagnosis / patients who use drug and alcohol
- Demonstrable experience in safeguarding children / adult practice and procedures.
- Teaching and group facilitation experience.
- Working with other stakeholders. LA/ICB and inpatient staff.
Safeguarding and Equality
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Notice
Location: Park Royal Centre for Mental Health, Town London
Salary: £47,951 – £56,863 per annum incl HCAS (pro rata if p/t)
Closing date: 20/07/2026
Contract: Permanent, Full time – 37.5 hours per week
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