Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Bristol

Job description

Job overview

Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

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 the outcomes that are important to them and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.

The post holder will also provide clinical leadership and supervision to team members.

The role involves providing profession specific interventions to people and also bringing professional expertise into the Multi-Disciplinary Team. In addition, there may be a need to provide non-profession specific, defined, personalised interventions that are agreed through Support Conversations. These might include a range of possible generic, evidence based therapeutic interventions where staff are trained to deliver these interventions .

The role involves being responsible for Personalised Care and Support Planning through the AWP Your-Team-Your Conversation-Your Plan approach, including taking on the role of "keyworker" at times and completing Safety Assessments. There may also be requirements to support the delivery of Social Care Assessments and reviews where required.

Main duties of the job

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

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

To work to the Principles of your team-your conversation-your plan:- Coproduced. Collaborative. Focused on Human Rights and Equalities. Transparent and positive approach to working with risk. Proportionate. Trauma informed.

To provide care and support in line with the three quality pillars:- Building relationships with people. Spending time reflecting on what might be helpful. Communicating well with all people involved, friends, family and carers.

Your Team - to facilitate a "team around the person" approach; working collaboratively with people's social networks and with a range of agencies.

Your Conversation - to have regular personalised support conversations with people you are working with. To take dialog outcome measures within the conversations and to use these strength based conversations to co-create advance plans to keep people well and safe in the future.

Your Plan - to use Support Conversations to co-create and refresh the Personal Wellbeing Plan.

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

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

Working for our organisation

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See job description.

They include:

Actively initiate collaborative assessments, goal setting and planning to enable decision making when working with service users and their families, using appropriate communication skills and strength based approaches.

Identify service user needs through effective assessment and use the information obtained to plan individualised nursing care using a range of contemporary assessment and improvement tools.

To influence developments that improve the person's experience, whilst advocating on behalf of service users.

Uphold and fulfil the nursing interventions seen as most effective and helpful for mental health service-users such as 1:1 support/time to focus and explain the clinical, social, practical options for treatment and best available evidence, as well as knowing/advising when to use medication.

Demonstrate high-level knowledge of biopsychosocial approaches/interventions.

Person specification

Application and interview

Essential criteria

• Registered mental health nurse with NMC registration
• Experience working in community mental health setting

Desirable criteria

• Experience working within a recovery team
• Experience of medication administration
• Experience of delivering psychological interventions

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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