Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Bristol

Job description

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:

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.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:

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.

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 the 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 persons 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.

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

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

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.

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

South Glos Recovery Team

Kingswood Civic Centre

Bristol

BS15 9TR

Employer's website

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