Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - ChippenhamNHS

Job summary

An exciting new role has become available within NEW CMHT. We are a multidisciplinary team consisting of a talented pool of both registered and non-registered mental health professionals.

We are looking for a registered mental health nurse , who has clinical experience in working with individuals with severe mental illness.

We believe that empowering our staff to achieve their full potential directly improves outcomes for the people we support. In return, we offer a supportive team environment, opportunities for professional development, and the chance to make a real impact within your community.

This is a community role with a base in Chippenham and Devizes there is an aspect of being able to have access to independent transport to visit service users.

Main duties of the job

This role is for a keyworker within the psychotic pathway. We have moved away from the use of care programme approach (CPA) and now work with service users and carers under the "your team, your conversation, your plan" approach, which is a strength based, intervention led model of care, that supports the individual to address their own identified needs. We support the conversation through the use of a personal well-being and safety plan, as well the use of patient related outcome measures (dialogue +).

Job description

1. To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver an ongoing comprehensive mental health service.

2. To facilitate the delivery of Personalised Care and Support Planning in line with the Your Team your Conversation-Your Plan Policy and guidance.

3. To record risk incidents and to collaboratively create and update Safety Assessments and Safety Plans.

4. To provide personalised interventions to support people with Mental Health difficulties.

5. To sometimes act as a Keyworker for people to whom you are delivering interventions.

6. To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, non-profession specific specialist therapeutic interventions.

7. To plan, deliver and evaluate Nursing Interventions as a member of a Multi- Disciplinary Team.

8. To work as a member of a Multi-Disciplinary Team, assisting it to function well. Providing profession specific leadership, input and understanding, respecting and utilising the input of other professionals to enhance the overall quality of support provided.

9. To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to support Carers.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which may be required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.

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 assessment and supervision of students , participating in their learning objectives and assessments.

Please refer to Band 6 job description for further details.

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.

If you are a committed mental health professional with an RMN qualification, with excellent communication skills, who likes working as part of a team please apply. We warmly welcome informal contact from potential candidates in advance of application.