Band 6 Bank Registered Practitioner - Trustwide

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking professionals with relevant registrations to provide mental health interventions. The role includes performing emergency assessments and delivering specialist interventions for individuals with severe mental health needs. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively to manage complex cases. Opportunities are available across multiple community teams in locations like Bristol and Bath. The position promotes personal development and offers flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Personal and professional development support

Weekly pay

Qualifications

• Must have relevant professional registration.
• Experience in providing mental health interventions.
• Ability to work autonomously in various locations.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective interventions and treatments to those with mental health needs.
• Undertake emergency assessments in diverse locations.
• Plan, deliver, and review intensive interventions.

Skills

Relevant professional registration

Autonomous emergency assessment

Planning and delivering interventions

Collaboration with other services

Education

RMN, OT or SOCIAL WORKER qualification

Job description

THIS POST IS AVAILABLE TO ALL APPLICANTS WHO CAN DEMONSTRATE RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION, RMN, OT or SOCIAL WORKER.

Are you looking to expand your working environment, while maintaining control of where and when you work? With personal and professional development support whilst being flexible around you and your personal commitments? with the added bonus of weekly pay? Then AWP bank is just the opportunity for you!

AWP covers a large geographical area , from bustling Bristol to the heritage city of Bath, to the rural rolling hills of Wiltshire to the seaside in Weston-Super-Mare. You will be able to access shifts in up to 80 community teams .

We offer ample opportunities to work in our wide range of services ranging from Community Mental Health Teams, Primary Care Liaison, Intensive Teams, Early Intervention Teams, Recovery Services, Street Triage, Mentally Disordered Offenders Teams, Complex Intervention Team for Older Adults, and Drug and Alcohol Services. With such a wide variety of Services to choose from the work is both challenging and varied but also interesting and rewarding.

The Trust is required to carry out mandatory employment checks. Please bring the original ID documents requested below to your interview if selected.

The interview date is 28th January 2026. No alternative dates will be available.

Main duties of the job

This role is focussed on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with a range of mental health needs, and their carers (including friends and relatives) and their supporters in the community, enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, social care and well being needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.

The post holder will work autonomously to undertake emergency assessment in a wide range of locations, planning and delivering defined, intensive, specialist interventions in line with the CPA framework to people with severe and enduring mental health needs, who maybe distressed and in crisis. Where appropriate the post holder will work alongside other services to plan, deliver and review effective “wrap around” intensive interventions to manage risk and prevent hospital admission for those with the most complex needs. The post holder will act as Care/Recovery coordinator or associate Care/Recovery coordinator as required.