The post-holder will support to lead an Integrated Mental Health Team, working closely with a wide range of partners, including Experts by Experience. They will inspire the team to deliver a high quality and effective service for people affected by mental illness - ensuring quicker access to clinical, psychological and social support, close to home.

The post-holder will have strong partnership and influencing skills as they bring NHS, social care and Voluntary and Community leads together to meet the breadth of people's needs. They will work with partners to provide trauma informed and culturally inclusive care that supports of all of BNSSG's communities, particularly those experiencing the greatest inequalities.

Main duties of the job

To support to lead and inspire the team to deliver a high quality and effective integrated service for service users and carers.

To ensure that the service works in partnership with a wide range of services to improve people's outcomes by working together using a 'my team around me' approach. This will provide people with the right support at the right time through improved communication and collaboration between professionals. This will also include collaboratively managing risk.

To undertake and support the specialist ongoing assessment of physiological and/or psychological functioning for service users with the most complex and health and wellbeing needs.

To be responsible for, both individually and within the team, the development, delivery and review of (comprehensive and complex treatment programmes) holistic needs assessments, interventions and support plans 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.

To plan, deliver, and evaluate defined practice in accordance with the ethos of what matters to me, to include trusted assessment, specialist therapeutic interventions within the sphere of their expertise, including with service users who may be on other caseloads.

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 oversee and deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve carers ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.

To lead, in partnership with the Clinical Psychology IMHT Lead, ensuring the service develops and maintains excellent clinical standards, and effective caseload supervision, underpinned by robust and effective individual and team supervision processes.

To oversee and ensure, across the team, that there are effective risk management plans and strategies, for service users and carers, taking account of risks to service users, carers, the multi partnership organisations, staff and the public.

In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible across the service for facilitating and ensuring the development of support plans that have been developed collaboratively with the individual to build a team around them addressing personal goals to support their health and wellbeing.

To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all (treatment) episodes of support, including regular liaison within the IMHT, and with inpatient and intensive services, day services, nominated carers/advocates, primary care, ARRS workers, AWP, local authority, IAPT, Voluntary and community sector, drug and alcohol service, acute hospitals, among others.

Develop and maintain communication with a wide range of people/services/ agencies about complex matters or in complex situations with the purpose of sharing developing or resolving difficult or complex issues for the benefit of service users/carer and the service.

To represent the Integrated Mental Health Team in a range of settings, presenting, facilitating or explaining as appropriate and dealing with any questions or difficulties as they arise.

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) support plans.

To develop systems and processes for the effective management and monitoring of the team caseload, on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, and service users and carer receive the appropriate level of service.

To lead and promote a whole team approach within the service to ensure a shared ownership of the team caseload.

To be responsible for regularly monitoring and evaluating (treatment) programmes of intervention and support for service users and carers, making appropriate clinical/practice decision in regard to ongoing needs, and offering supervision to others.

To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, by developing and reviewing with others protection plans and management strategies, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

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) support 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.

To provide a leadership role within the team.

To work with the Clinical Psychologist Lead to ensure the continuing improvements to the service in line with organisational goals.

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.

Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

To participate in, and deliver as required, management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.

Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for the development of others, both practitioners, and those in training by making use of and providing, effective feedback, specialist therapeutic clinical supervision, coaching and appraisal.

To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.

Promote monitor and maintain best practice in health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.

Work with the Clinical Psychologist lead to develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.

Lead practices which enable effective team working.

To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered MH Nurse, Social Worker or OT

Experience

Essential

• Significant post qualification community experience

Desirable

• Worked as a community Senior Prac/Band 7 previously

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Coast Resource Centre

Weston-super-Mare

BS24 7FY

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