Band 5 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Wiltshire

NHS; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in Chippenham is seeking a Band 5 Specialist Recovery Practitioner to join a supportive team focused on improving lives through tailored mental health interventions. This role requires current registration with the NMC or HCPC, and experience in delivering mental health services in the UK. The successful candidate will work with a complex caseload and have opportunities for career development and training in therapeutic interventions. This position offers valuable supervision and a supportive learning environment.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Specialised training

Qualifications

• Current relevant registration with NMC, HCPC, or SWE.
• Commitment to continuing professional development (CPD).
• Experience in delivering mental health services within the UK healthcare system.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health service to an allocated caseload of service users.
• Assessment of needs and planning of treatment.
• Participate in integrated governance processes.

Skills

Delivering therapeutic interventions

Multi-agency working

Administration of medications

Education

Diploma-level or degree qualification in a relevant health profession

Job description

Band 5 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Wiltshire

An exciting new role has become available within the NEW CMHT, North and East Wiltshire.

We are a friendly, supportive team who are passionate about improving the lives of service users with complex mental health needs. We are a forward-thinking service and, for many years, have implemented a new way of working with service users with emotionally unstable/borderline personality disorders.

This is an evidence-based model of care called Structured Clinical Management. Successful applicants will be offered a three-day training package on how to deliver this model, along with specialised individual and group supervision.

As a keyworker in the team, you will be responsible for a caseload of service users with a range of complex mental health needs, working within 'Your Team, Your Conversation, Your Plan' framework to deliver a range of mental health interventions.

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

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for clinicians to work in a focused way, developing skills for an identified group of individuals on a non-psychotic pathway, improving the outcomes and experience for our service users and their carers.

The successful applicant will be responsible for the care coordination of a complex caseload of service users on the non-psychotic pathway.

The role will involve providing therapeutic interventions and linking in with other professionals to coordinate their input.

Main responsibilities:

• Delivering interventions to a complex caseload of service users with complex emotional needs

Multi-agency working

Administration of medications

Fulfilling the CMHT duty worker role on a rolling rot

Please see the attached job description file for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

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 (BANES), 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.

Job responsibilities

Provide a mental health service to an allocated caseload of service users, and deliver a set of defined interventions within that caseload.

You will have responsibility for the assessment of needs, the planning and implementation of treatment and care to meet those needsas agreed with the multidisciplinary team and/or supervisor.

This includes key working (with supervision) service users and contributing to the evaluation of care across a variety of settings where mental health or specialist treatment is available.

Liaise, as appropriate, with other members of the multidisciplinary team and other agencies involved in the care of individual service users.

Participate in integrated governance processes, particularly as they relate to your own practice. Contribute to the monitoring of service provision, performance, and standards of care through data collection and audit processes.

This role is focused on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with severe and enduring mental health needs, and their carers (including friends, relatives, and supporters) in the community. You will enable and assist them to meet daily health, social care, and well-being needs in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitate engagement with mainstream services.

Please see the attached job description file for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualification/Registration

• Current relevant registration with the NMC, HCPC, or SWE, and a commitment to continuing professional development (CPD).
• Diploma-level or degree qualification in a relevant health profession.

Experience

• Able to deliver a range of key therapeutic interventions, including CBT, psychosocial interventions, and family interventions.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering mental health services within the UK healthcare system.
• Holds a valid UK driving licence and has access to a vehicle with appropriate business insurance.

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.