Band 5 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Wiltshire

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health service provider in Chippenham is seeking a keyworker to join their dedicated team. In this role, the successful candidate will manage a caseload of service users with complex mental health needs, providing therapeutic interventions and working collaboratively with various professionals. This position offers excellent supervision and opportunities for career development. Ideal candidates will have experience in delivering therapeutic support and risk management, alongside a passion for improving client outcomes.

Benefits

Excellent supervision

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in providing therapeutic interventions to individuals with complex mental health needs.
• Ability to work collaboratively across agencies.
• Skills in risk assessment and management.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of service users with complex emotional needs.
• Coordinate care with professionals from multiple agencies.
• Provide necessary therapeutic interventions.

Skills

Therapeutic interventions

Multi-agency collaboration

Risk management

Medication administration

Job description

Job overview

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 the "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
• Risk management
• 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.