The South Glos Recovery Team North Stream is looking for a Specialist Recovery Practitioner to join our supportive and friendly team. The team is based in Thornbury, covering the South Glos area, including Yate, Patchway, and other suburban areas. This is a wide geographical area with limited access to public transport.
There is the opportunity to develop your skills with new training in Structured Clinical Management and Standard Care and Discharge packages being rolled out across the South Glos Recovery teams, with a very good supervision program in place to support staff. We are increasing our therapeutic offer to service users and welcome applicants who are keen to develop their skills in this area.
The role entails Key Workers managing a caseload of service users under secondary mental health services and the coordination and delivery of evidence-based interventions. This includes commissioning packages under the care act.
Main Duties of the Job
We welcome applications from qualified clinicians with experience of working with people with acute and enduring mental health needs. If you are looking to further your community experience, we would love to hear from you.
We will consider recently qualified staff who have completed their preceptorship. This post is open to newly qualified social workers. In line with AWP trust policy, all newly qualified social workers (NQSW) will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding. All NQSWs are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be extended for a further 2 years.
If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role, this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful ASYE completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 post, you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy upon successful ASYE completion.
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. Social care needs.
13. Safeguarding and public protection.
14. 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, including to service users who may be on other caseloads. 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.
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 where appropriate.
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, including working with others in the planning, development, and review of protection plans, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.
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.
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 person's goal.
Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.
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 management, caseload, and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.
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 mentoring and supervising of students, participating in their learning objectives and assessments.
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.
Monitor and maintain health, safety, and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.
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.
Lead, maintain, and participate in practices which enable effective team working.
To participate in on-call rotas as required.
To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.
Person Specification
Evidence of Experience
Essential
* Qualification to a relevant professional body (NMC).
* Mental health experience in any setting.
Desirable
* Additional Therapy Qualification such as SCM, CBT, CBTp.
* Student mentoring experience.
* Experience in Recovery Team.
Employer Details
Employer Name
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address
The Elms
Thornbury
Bristol
BS351DG
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