Band 6 ARRS Mental Health Practitioner - Bristol

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; West of England; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Disability Confident Employer

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust seeks a Mental Health Practitioner to deliver care from GP surgeries, providing early access and support via face-to-face and telephone appointments. You will work with families, carers and local agencies to address housing, debt, employment and addictions alongside mental health needs.

You’ll join a multidisciplinary team delivering integrated care, ensuring timely responses and coordinated pathways across services, while upholding

Responsibilities

• Give best practice advice and support in a broad range of conditions for people with both functional and organic mental health needs.
• Promote the needs of family and carer/s, including various support networks and third sector agencies.
• Advise and support on evaluating risk from a positive risk-taking perspective.
• Support and advise within safeguarding and public protection procedures where the issues are complicated by mental health problems, alongside Primary Care colleagues.
• Provide a prompt response to all contacts following jointly agreed procedures and within agreed time frames.
• Ensure, where needed, that people experience a seamless transfer into AWP provider/treatment services via trusted assessment processes.
• Following assessment, provide short- term follow up of patients where appropriate.
• Contribute evidence‑based expertise to multi‑disciplinary team processes.
• Promote positive attitudes, mutual understanding and collaboration between non‑mental health staff and mental health services, users, carers, voluntary agencies, primary care and social services.
• Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of and providing, effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal.
• Adhere to the relevant professional code of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.
• Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.
• Develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of available feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify appropriate areas of development for this work role, taking responsibility for accessing identified learning and training opportunities.
• Maintain appropriate health record, in accordance with professional and organisational standards.

Job description

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to provide your expertise working in Primary Care as part of a General Practice team. This role will be based in Connexus PCN, covering Stockwood Medical Centre and Wells Road Surgery, Tuesday-Thursday.

Please see the AWP Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme webpage for more details

Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme :: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

We are redesigning our community mental health services so that, in future, people receive a personalized, preventative and proactive integrated approach. Primary Care, voluntary services and AWP are working together to provide a one team approach for our local populations and your role as a Mental Health Practitioner is key to the success of this approach.

Unfortunately, this post is not open to newly qualified social workers.

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.

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The Mental Health Practitioner (MHP) facilitates early MH access and support via face to face and telephone appointments based in the GP surgery.

You will be working alongside our communities and local authorities with patients and their families making sure that issues such as housing, debt, employment, and addictions are addressed at the same time as mental health problems.

As a Mental Health Practitioner (social worker/occupational therapist/mental health nurse) you will be working with a range of other professionals including care navigators and peer support workers to combine the existing services and provide a one team approach. Delivering care from GP’s surgeries this is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of local service provision moving forward.

We are committed to providing high-quality care for our population and work collaboratively to provide excellent care and reduce the impact of health inequalities across our patient population. We are also committed to being good employers. Staff have the right to be treated fairly in recruitment and career progression. Staff can expect to work in an environment where diversity is valued, and equality of opportunity is promoted. Staff will not be discriminated against on any grounds including age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We expect all staff to treat patients and colleagues with respect.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Give best practice advice and support in a broad range of conditions for people with both functional and organic mental health needs.

Promote the needs of family and carer/s, including various support networks and third sector agencies.

Advise and support on evaluating risk from a positive risk-taking perspective.

Support and advise within safeguarding and public protection procedures where the issues are complicated by mental health problems, alongside Primary Care colleagues.

Provide a prompt response to all contacts following jointly agreed procedures and within agreed time frames.

Ensure, where needed, that people experience a seamless transfer into AWP provider/treatment services via trusted assessment processes.

Following assessment, provide short- term follow up of patients where appropriate.

Contribute evidence‑based expertise to multi‑disciplinary team processes.

Promote positive attitudes, mutual understanding and collaboration between non‑mental health staff and mental health services, users, carers, voluntary agencies, primary care and social services.

Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of and providing, effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal.

Adhere to the relevant professional code of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.

Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.

Develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of available feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify appropriate areas of development for this work role, taking responsibility for accessing identified learning and training opportunities.

Maintain appropriate health record, in accordance with professional and organisational standards.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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