B6 ROSE Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Bristol

Job description

Job responsibilities

Description of the duties

1. 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:

a. The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV

b. Recovery Star

c. History, strengths and aspirations

d. Mental state

e. Impact of culture and diversity

f. Functional needs

g. The needs of family and carer

h. Evaluation of risk

i. Physical health

j. Complicating factors

k. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.

l. Social care needs

m. Safeguarding and public protection

n. Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act

2. To be responsible for developing delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.

3. To act as Key worker for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.

4. 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 maybe on other caseloads. This might include:

a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention

b. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions

c. Psychosocial interventions

d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.

e. Medication management

f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act,

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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 etc where appropriate.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10.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.

11.Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which maybe 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.

Person Specification

Profession

Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with current NMC registration.

Desirable

• Flexibility to work across varying hours during the working week.

Essential

Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with current NMC registration. Demonstrated experience supporting individuals with complex and enduring mental health conditions, with strong interpersonal and communication skills to engage service users effectively. Proven knowledge of safeguarding protocols and experience in multi-agency collaboration. Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. Proficient in clinical documentation and use of electronic patient record systems (e.g., RiO). Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across key service locations.

Desirable

• Experience in outreach or community-based mental health services. Familiarity with Bristol's local health and social care landscape, including population-specific mental health challenges. Training in psychosocial interventions, formulation-based approaches, or other evidence-based therapeutic models. Flexibility to work across varying hours during the working week.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Speedwell Centre

Whitefield Rd

Speedwell, Bristol

BS5 7TJ

Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)