Band 7 Substance Use Team Leader - Weston-super-Mare
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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“This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role is for a Band 7 Substance Use Team Leader based in Weston-super-Mare, working within the Southwest Op Courage Integrated Veterans Mental Health Service. The postholder will lead the development and delivery of drug, alcohol, and gambling harm services for veterans across the Southwest, ensuring access to appropriate interventions and managing a small caseload. It involves liaising with key providers, monitoring KPIs, and ensuring shared care arrangements for dual diagnosis patients. The role requires living within the Southwest and attending face-to-face team meetings.
Essential criteria
- Relevant education to degree level or ability to demonstrate equivalent level of knowledge and experience.
- Significant experience of managing Health and/or Social Care staff and services
- Experience of managing complex caseload/workload demands.
- Experience of developing and maintaining partnerships with internal & external stakeholders
- Significant experience in leading a substance use service
- The ability to demonstrate experience in health, social care or third sector environments to a high level.
- Excellent communication skills including influencing, negotiation and empathic skills.
- Significant experience in leading/managing service change
Desirable criteria
- A professional qualification in either Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy or Social Work.
- Post graduate qualification
- Education, Qualifications & experience
- Relevant education to degree level or ability to demonstrate equivalent level of knowledge and experience.
- Significant experience of managing Health and/or Social Care staff and services
- Experience of managing complex caseload/workload demands.
- Experience of developing and maintaining partnerships with internal & external stakeholders
- Significant experience in leading a substance use service
- The ability to demonstrate experience in health, social care or third sector environments to a high level.
- Excellent communication skills including influencing, negotiation and empathic skills.
- Significant experience in leading/managing service change
- A professional qualification in either Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy or Social Work.
- Post graduate qualification
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 7 Substance Use Team Leader - Weston-super-Mare
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
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.
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