Band 4 Recovery Coordinator (Intensive/Crisis Team) - Devizes

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Devizes; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust seeks a Recovery Coordinator for the North Wiltshire Intensive Team based at Green Lane Hospital, Devizes. The role is full time, with flexibility to consider alternatives.

The team provides assessment and home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission. Operating 08:30–22:00, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, the successful candidate should be able to work a shift pattern.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in Mental Health or Psychology degree with relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide recovery support as part of North Wiltshire Intensive Team.
• Assist assessment and home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission.
• Support relapse prevention and short-term therapeutic work.
• Facilitate discharge planning from hospital when appropriate.

Skills

Mental health experience

Work under pressure

Lone working

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Mental Health

Psychology degree

Job description

We are looking for a Recovery Coordinator for North Wiltshire Intensive Team based at Green Lane Hospital, Devizes. The position is offering full time hours although alternatives would be considered., We are looking to recruit a suitably experienced/qualified recovery coordinator, to join the North Wiltshire Intensive Team.

The Intensive Team is part of the North Wiltshire Access services.

The Intensive Team provides assessment and home treatment to individuals and their carers as an alternative to hospital admission, relapse prevention, short term therapy work and help provide facilitated discharge from hospital.

The team operates 0830 - 2200, 7 days per week, 365 days per year, as such the successful candidate will be expected to be able to undertake a shift pattern of working.

Mental Health Workers in this team, offer a variety of psychosocial skills to service users, whilst working under the guidance of registered practitioners there is also the expectation of lone working at times. The Intensive team has a shared caseload so Mental Health Workers are not required to provide care co-ordination.

We are ideally looking for someone who has successfully undertaken the NVQ Level 3 in Mental Health, or a Psychology Degree with sufficient experience working within acute mental health. The applicant will need to beenthusiastic and have experience of working with people and families in distress due to mental health crisis and are able to work under pressure. The North Wiltshire Intensive team works to promote recovery and operates a non-exclusion policy.

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.

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.