Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Bewley House, Wiltshire
Are you Dynamic? Motivated? Passionate about community-based care? A registered Mental Health Nurse?
If you can answer yes to these questions then we want you to apply for our band 6 post in North and East Wilts CMHT. We are redesigning the model of care based on identified pathways and looking for clinicians who are skilled or have an interest in training to deliver interventions to service users on a psychotic pathway.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity for clinicians to work in a focused way developing skills for an identified group of individuals on a psychotic pathway improving the outcomes and experience for our service users and their carers.
The successful applicant will be responsible for the care co-ordination of a complex caseload of service users who have psychotic illnesses, which may include service users with co-existing substance misuse issues.
The role will involve providing therapeutic interventions and also linking in with other professionals to co-ordinate their interventions, all within the CPA process.
Main responsibilities:
1. Care co-ordination of a complex caseload of service users with psychotic illnesses.
2. Leading the CPA process.
3. Multi-agency working.
4. Risk management.
5. Administration of medications.
6. Fulfilling the CMHT duty worker role on a rolling rota.
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 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:
1. The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e., the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV.
2. Recovery Star.
3. History, strengths and aspirations.
4. Mental state.
5. Impact of culture and diversity.
6. Functional needs.
7. The needs of family and carer.
8. Evaluation of risk.
9. Physical health.
10. Complicating factors.
11. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
12. Safeguarding and public protection.
13. Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act.
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.
To act as care coordinator for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers' caseloads.
To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process, in line with personal recovery plans.
This might include:
1. Individual or group therapeutic intervention.
2. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions.
3. Psychosocial interventions.
4. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.
5. Medication management.
6. Interventions under the Mental Health Act.
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.
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.
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.
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 electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.
To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures.
To participate in management, caseload, and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.
Person Specification
Qualification/Registration
* Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC or SWE and commitment to CPD.
* Diploma level/Degree in relevant health profession.
Experience
* Is able to deliver from a range of possible key therapeutic interventions CBT, Psychosocial interventions, Family Interventions.
* UK driving licence with business insurance.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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