Band 5 Recovery Practitioner - Speedwell

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; West of England; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust invites applications from registered nurses, social workers or occupational therapists to join the Central & East Assessment & Recovery Team based in Speedwell, Bristol. We are a multidisciplinary Recovery Team covering Central and East Bristol.

The post holder will conduct high quality assessments and deliver recovery-focused interventions, working with a multidisciplinary team to plan, implement and review care and help service users

Qualifications

• Registered professionals in nursing, social work or occupational therapy.

Responsibilities

• Conduct high quality assessments of service users.
• Deliver recovery-focused interventions.
• Plan, implement and review care with a multidisciplinary team.
• Support service users to achieve recovery goals and promote self-management.

Skills

Registered nurse

Social worker

Occupational therapist

Job description

We are inviting applications from registered nurses, social workers or occupational therapists to join the Central & East Assessment & Recovery Team based in Speedwell, Bristol.

We are a welcoming and supportive team with a consistent, established leadership team, that prioritises the wellbeing of staff to enable the delivery of high quality care and treatment.

We are a multidisciplinary Recovery Team which covers Central and East Bristol. As a keyworker you will hold a diverse and complex caseload and deliver recovery focused interventions

The post holder will focus on high quality assessment of service users and delivery of focused recovery based interventions. You will be required to contribute towards the planning, implementation and review of care alongside a multi-disciplinary team.

Applicants will have a commitment to working with service users creatively towards their identified recovery goals and to promote choice and self-management.

All Recovery Practitioners may at times be required to undertake both assessment and key working dependant on the needs of the team.

You can expect to receive excellent supervision and there will be opportunities for career development and training in order to support you in this role.

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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Hanna Paddock Job title: Team Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0117 9556098