Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Chippenham
An exciting new role has become available within NEW CMHT.
We are a friendly supportive team who are passionate about improving the lives of service users with complex mental health needs. We are a forward-thinking service and for many years have implemented a new way of working with service users with emotionally unstable/borderline personality disorders. This is an evidence-based model of care called Structured Clinical Management. Successful applicants will be offered a three-day training package on how to deliver this model along with specialized individual and group supervision. As a care co-ordinator in the team, you will be responsible for a caseload of service users with a range of complex mental health needs, working within the CPA framework to deliver a range of health and social care interventions. You can expect to receive excellent supervision, and there will be opportunities for career development and training in order to support you in this role.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide a Mental Health service to an allocated caseload of Service Users, and deliver a set of defined interventions within that caseload, having responsibility for the assessment of needs, the planning and implementation of treatment and care to meet those needs as agreed with multidisciplinary team and/or supervisor.
2. Coordinate care (with supervision) for particular Service Users, and contribute to the evaluation of care across a variety of settings where Mental Health or Specialist Treatment is available.
3. Liaise as appropriate with other members of the multidisciplinary team and other agencies involved in the care of individual service users.
4. Participate in Integrated Governance processes, particularly as they relate to own practice, contributing to the monitoring of service provision and performance, and standards of care, through data collection and audit processes.
5. Liaise with other services and agencies involved in provision of services to people with Mental Health and other vulnerabilities.
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 recognize 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.
Job responsibilities
1. This role is focused on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with severe and enduring mental health needs, and their carers (including friends and relatives) and their supporters in the community, enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, social care and well-being needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.
2. Under the overarching framework of CPA, the post holder will be responsible for the ongoing assessment, planning delivery and review of activities and interventions against identified health, social care and well-being needs, acting as care coordinator for a defined group of service users.
3. Develop and maintain effective helping relationships with service users, working in partnership with service users and carers and ensuring that your practice accords with guidance and best practice standards regarding the delivery of services including, but not limited to, requirements in relation to Privacy, Dignity and Respect and Diversity.
4. Provide a defined Mental Health assessment and interventions to an allocated caseload of service users, having responsibility for the assessment of needs and the planning and implementation of treatment and care to meet those needs, based on evidence of best practice, and as agreed with multidisciplinary team and/or supervisor.
5. Working collaboratively in the ongoing assessment of risk, and the development and review of plans to manage identified risks effectively, working closely with senior members of the multi-disciplinary team and practicing in accordance with Trust and National policy and best practice guidance.
6. Co-ordinate care for designated service users on your caseload under the supervision of a more senior practitioner.
7. Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of casework with individual service users, ensuring that your practice and record-keeping complies with all relevant standards and Good Practice Guidelines.
8. Participate in your own supervision. Work with your line manager to set and review your objectives, and to identify and meet your training and professional development needs through supervision and appraisal against the KSF outline for your post.
9. Ensure you keep up to date with developments in the Mental Health and Social Care field and related areas as appropriate, ensuring that your practice is based on best available evidence and meets all relevant standards and requirements set out in Integrated Governance frameworks.
10. Contribute to the provision of training for students.
11. Have responsibility for other duties as agreed with line manager.
Person Specification
* RMN, Social Worker or OT
* Must have a UK driver's license and access to a car
* Demonstrates significant experience of, and relevant professional practice.
* Experience of working within mental health services
* Demonstrates significant experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies.
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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