B6 ROSE Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Bristol

NHS; Bristol; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider seeks a B6 ROSE Specialist Recovery Practitioner in Bristol to provide innovative and personalized mental health interventions. The role requires you to deliver assessments, develop treatment programs, and work within a supportive team focused on recovery. Candidates must be a Registered Mental Health Nurse with experience in community-based services and strong interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Experience supporting individuals with complex mental health conditions.
• Proven knowledge of safeguarding protocols.

Responsibilities

• Deliver mental health assessments for service users.
• Develop and review complex treatment programs.
• Act as Key worker for service users with complex needs.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Ability to work autonomously

Multi-agency collaboration

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)

Tools

RiO

Job description

B6 ROSE Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Bristol

The Bristol ROSE Team is seeking a dedicated and experienced Band 6 Nurse to join our innovative and dynamic service based at the Speedwell Centre. This role offers the opportunity to work with a complex group of service users who are often hard to reach, delivering personalised, preventative, and proactive interventions to improve their quality of life.

You will be part of a supportive team committed to recovery-focused care, working across key Bristol locations with a capped caseload to ensure meaningful engagement.

Main duties of the job

Deliver creative, flexible, and trauma-informed interventions tailored to individual needs

Engage with service users and families in community settings to promote recovery and wellbeing

Collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues and external partners

Maintain accurate clinical records using RiO

Participate in weekly team planning meetings and monthly reflective practice sessions

Contribute to formulation planning, problem-solving, and service development

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.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

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

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:
2. a. The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV
3. b. Recovery Star
4. c. History, strengths and aspirations
5. d. Mental state
6. e. Impact of culture and diversity
7. f. Functional needs
8. g. The needs of family and carer
9. h. Evaluation of risk
10. i. Physical health
11. j. Complicating factors
12. k. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
13. m. Safeguarding and public protection
14. n. Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act
15. 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.
16. 3. To act as Key worker for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
17. 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:
18. a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention
19. b. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions
20. c. Psychosocial interventions
21. d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.
22. e. Medication management
23. f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act,
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. 13.Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.
32. 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.
33. 15.Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.
34. 16.To participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.

Person Specification

Profession

• Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with current NMC registration.
• Flexibility to work across varying hours during the working week.
• 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.
• 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.