Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - South Glos. Recovery (North)
- Employer
- Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Location
- Thornbury
- Salary
- £35,392 to £42,618 a year pro rata
- Closing date
- 8 Aug 2024
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- Profession
- Other Health Profession
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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We are currently looking to recruit a motivated and experienced full time Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to join our Team. We are a friendly supportive team who are passionate about improving the lives of service users with complex mental health needs.
Our team comprises of a multi-disciplinary team. Our team comprises of Key Workers, psychologists, OT's, Consultant Psychiatrist, Support Worker, Social Workers, Vocational Services and therapy staff.
The successful applicant will work from our Thornbury base. The team operates from 0900-1700 Monday to Friday. Candidates should be mobile with the facility to move quickly across a large geographical area therefore a car driver with a Vehicle is essential. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs.
We are looking to appoint some highly motivated, enthusiastic, flexible and resourceful individuals with experience and/or an interest in working with service users in a community setting. The Recovery Specialist Practitioner CPN provides interventions as a Key Worker in ensuring high quality, safe and sustainable services within a South Glos. Recovery Services. Our goal is to help people with mental disorders lead happy and healthy lives in the community and help prevent hospital admissions. The role is challenging as well as rewarding.
We warmly welcome informal contact from potential candidates in advance of application.
Main duties of the job
As a Key Worker in the team you will be responsible for a caseload of service users, working within the Your Team, Your Conversation framework to deliver a range of health and social care interventions.
In this integrated team we focus on the delivery of recovery based interventions, and self-management. We are a forward thinking service and have implemented a new way of working with service users.
Our team is a dynamic and innovative team committed to excellence in every aspect of our service. We pride ourselves on our values of, doing our best, all the time, listening, understanding and valuing what service users tell us, being open, honest, straightforward and reliable, relating to everyone as an individual. The teams success is driven by our talented and dedicated team who work together to achieve our goals and objectives.
You will have the opportunity to manage a caseload, delivering a diverse range interventions. We seek to empower service users and carers to actively engage in their recovery journey. You can also expect to receive excellent supervision, and there will be opportunities for career development and training in order to support you in this role.
The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under pressure at times, and with a desire for innovation.
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.
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.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 evidence-based 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 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.
Trust employees are expected to follow Trust policies, procedures and guidance as well as professional standards and guidelines. In particular, attention is drawn to the Trusts arrangements in relation to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults as well as infection prevention and control. All employees are expected to be familiar with the Trusts approach to risk management, take a risk management approach.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
Desirable
Employer details
Employer name
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address
The Elms
26 Gloucester Rd
Thornbury
BS351DG
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
342-SGLOS059-0724
Our team comprises of a multi-disciplinary team. Our team comprises of Key Workers, psychologists, OT's, Consultant Psychiatrist, Support Worker, Social Workers, Vocational Services and therapy staff.
The successful applicant will work from our Thornbury base. The team operates from 0900-1700 Monday to Friday. Candidates should be mobile with the facility to move quickly across a large geographical area therefore a car driver with a Vehicle is essential. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs.
We are looking to appoint some highly motivated, enthusiastic, flexible and resourceful individuals with experience and/or an interest in working with service users in a community setting. The Recovery Specialist Practitioner CPN provides interventions as a Key Worker in ensuring high quality, safe and sustainable services within a South Glos. Recovery Services. Our goal is to help people with mental disorders lead happy and healthy lives in the community and help prevent hospital admissions. The role is challenging as well as rewarding.
We warmly welcome informal contact from potential candidates in advance of application.
Main duties of the job
As a Key Worker in the team you will be responsible for a caseload of service users, working within the Your Team, Your Conversation framework to deliver a range of health and social care interventions.
In this integrated team we focus on the delivery of recovery based interventions, and self-management. We are a forward thinking service and have implemented a new way of working with service users.
Our team is a dynamic and innovative team committed to excellence in every aspect of our service. We pride ourselves on our values of, doing our best, all the time, listening, understanding and valuing what service users tell us, being open, honest, straightforward and reliable, relating to everyone as an individual. The teams success is driven by our talented and dedicated team who work together to achieve our goals and objectives.
You will have the opportunity to manage a caseload, delivering a diverse range interventions. We seek to empower service users and carers to actively engage in their recovery journey. You can also expect to receive excellent supervision, and there will be opportunities for career development and training in order to support you in this role.
The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under pressure at times, and with a desire for innovation.
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.
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.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 evidence-based 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 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.
Trust employees are expected to follow Trust policies, procedures and guidance as well as professional standards and guidelines. In particular, attention is drawn to the Trusts arrangements in relation to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults as well as infection prevention and control. All employees are expected to be familiar with the Trusts approach to risk management, take a risk management approach.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/ Degree in Mental Health Nursing
Desirable
- Relevant Training/ Courses
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Previous experience in working in mental health
- Working with a range of mental disorders
Desirable
- Previous community experience
- Holding caseloads
Employer details
Employer name
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address
The Elms
26 Gloucester Rd
Thornbury
BS351DG
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
342-SGLOS059-0724
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