B6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner (Non-Psychotic Pathway) - Bath
- Employer
- Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Location
- Bath
- Salary
- £35,392 to £42,618 a year
- Closing date
- 12 Mar 2024
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- Profession
- Other Health Profession
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Non-Psychotic Pathway with an interest in SCM / MBT / DBT
THIS POST IS AVAILABLE TO ALL APPLICANTS WHO CAN DEMONSTRATE RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION (RMN, OT, Social Work, CAPS), EDUCATION TO DEGREE LEVEL OR ABILITY TO DEMONSTRATE EQUIVALENT LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE
Are you Dynamic? Motivated? Passionate about community based care, with a desire to deliver and learn more about interventions for this client group?
If you can answer yes to these questions then we want you to apply for our band 6 position in The BANES Recovery Team. We have been re-designing the model of care based on identified pathways and we are looking for clinicians who are skilled or have an interest in training to deliver interventions to service users in the non-psychotic pathway.
Main duties of the job
We have a well established training programme of structured clinical management (SCM) which is evidence based approach for individuals who are on a non-psychotic pathway. We can also offer opportunities for training within the DBT service and MBT service. We have a great relationship with our psychology team and personality disorder leads and are very keen to support continued professional development. We welcome applications from clinician's with varied experiences and it's not an expectation that you'll have all the tools to support people under this pathway but wouldcertainly hope this is of interest to you. We are a very supportive team that work hard to achieve the best outcomes for those we work with.
If you are up for the challenge this is an exciting opportunity for clinicians to work in a focused way developing skills for an identified group of individuals who are on a non-psychotic pathway.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B& NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings. This will include:
a. The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV
b. Recovery Star
c. History, strengths and aspirations
d. Mental state
e. Impact of culture and diversity
f. Functional needs
g. The needs of family and carer
h. Evaluation of risk
i. Physical health
j. Complicating factors
k. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
l. Social care needs
m. Safeguarding and public protection
n. Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act
2. To be responsible for developing delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.
3. To act as care coordinator for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
4. To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process ,in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads. This might include:
a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention
b. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches , family interventions
c. Psychosocial interventions
d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.
e. Medication management
f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act,
5. To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.
6. To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.
7. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.
8. To personally build and lead others to build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.
9. To be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.
10. To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, including working with others in the planning development and review of protection plans, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.
11. Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which maybe required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.
12. Personally and leading others to collaboratively and sensitively work with individuals, with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experiences and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.
13. Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.
14. To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.
15. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.
16. To participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.
17. To provide mentoring/training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care. Specifically this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students , participating in their learning objectives and assessments
18. Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of and providing, effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal.
19. Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.
20. Develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of available feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify appropriate areas of development for this work role, taking responsibility for accessing identified learning and training opportunities.
21. Lead, maintain and participate in practices which enable effective team working.
22. To participate in on call rotas as required.
23. To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.
Person Specification
Registration
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Mobile
Essential
Employer details
Employer name
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Bath NHS House
Bath
BA1 3QE
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
342-BNS022-0224
THIS POST IS AVAILABLE TO ALL APPLICANTS WHO CAN DEMONSTRATE RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION (RMN, OT, Social Work, CAPS), EDUCATION TO DEGREE LEVEL OR ABILITY TO DEMONSTRATE EQUIVALENT LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE
Are you Dynamic? Motivated? Passionate about community based care, with a desire to deliver and learn more about interventions for this client group?
If you can answer yes to these questions then we want you to apply for our band 6 position in The BANES Recovery Team. We have been re-designing the model of care based on identified pathways and we are looking for clinicians who are skilled or have an interest in training to deliver interventions to service users in the non-psychotic pathway.
Main duties of the job
We have a well established training programme of structured clinical management (SCM) which is evidence based approach for individuals who are on a non-psychotic pathway. We can also offer opportunities for training within the DBT service and MBT service. We have a great relationship with our psychology team and personality disorder leads and are very keen to support continued professional development. We welcome applications from clinician's with varied experiences and it's not an expectation that you'll have all the tools to support people under this pathway but wouldcertainly hope this is of interest to you. We are a very supportive team that work hard to achieve the best outcomes for those we work with.
If you are up for the challenge this is an exciting opportunity for clinicians to work in a focused way developing skills for an identified group of individuals who are on a non-psychotic pathway.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B& NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings. This will include:
a. The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV
b. Recovery Star
c. History, strengths and aspirations
d. Mental state
e. Impact of culture and diversity
f. Functional needs
g. The needs of family and carer
h. Evaluation of risk
i. Physical health
j. Complicating factors
k. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
l. Social care needs
m. Safeguarding and public protection
n. Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act
2. To be responsible for developing delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.
3. To act as care coordinator for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
4. To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process ,in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads. This might include:
a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention
b. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches , family interventions
c. Psychosocial interventions
d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.
e. Medication management
f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act,
5. To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.
6. To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.
7. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.
8. To personally build and lead others to build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.
9. To be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.
10. To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, including working with others in the planning development and review of protection plans, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.
11. Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which maybe required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.
12. Personally and leading others to collaboratively and sensitively work with individuals, with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experiences and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.
13. Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.
14. To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.
15. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.
16. To participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.
17. To provide mentoring/training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care. Specifically this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students , participating in their learning objectives and assessments
18. Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of and providing, effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal.
19. Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.
20. Develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of available feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify appropriate areas of development for this work role, taking responsibility for accessing identified learning and training opportunities.
21. Lead, maintain and participate in practices which enable effective team working.
22. To participate in on call rotas as required.
23. To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.
Person Specification
Registration
Essential
- Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC and commitment to CPD.
- Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, OT, Social Worker
Desirable
- Experience of delivering interventions such as SCM or DBT.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates substantial post-registration experience gained working in a range of front-line adult mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering interventions
Desirable
- Experience gained in a wide variety of settings
Mobile
Essential
- Mobile with the facility to move quickly across a geographically dispersed area with limited access to public transport
Employer details
Employer name
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Bath NHS House
Bath
BA1 3QE
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
342-BNS022-0224
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