Band 6 Bank Registered Practitioner - Trustwide

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Devizes; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization in England is seeking professionals with relevant registration, offering flexible work and development support. The role involves providing tailored interventions to individuals with mental health needs in diverse community settings. Ideal candidates will demonstrate crisis management skills and a commitment to diversity. Join a diverse team dedicated to enhancing mental health in the community.

Benefits

Weekly pay

Professional development support

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Relevant professional registration required (RMN, OT or Social Worker).
• Experience in providing mental health support.
• Ability to work in a crisis and provide immediate interventions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist interventions in community settings.
• Collaborate with other services to manage complex cases.
• Conduct assessments and develop treatment plans.

Skills

Professional registration (RMN, OT, Social Worker)

Crisis intervention

Therapeutic interventions

Medication management

Education

Relevant professional qualification

Job description

Overview

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 Bristol to Bath, Wiltshire and 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 including 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. The Trust carries out mandatory employment checks. Please bring original ID documents requested below to your interview if selected. Interview date: 22 October 2025. No other dates will be available.

Responsibilities

This role is focused on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with a range of mental health needs, and their carers (including friends and relatives) and supporters in the community. It enables and assists them to meet daily health, social care and well-being needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitates 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 may be distressed and in crisis
• where appropriate, 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
• act as Care/Recovery coordinator or associate Care/Recovery coordinator as required
• undertake full range of activities to deliver comprehensive mental health assessment in emergency for service users who may be distressed and in crisis
• use standardised assessment tools (e.g., CAST, KGV, Recovery Star) and assess history, strengths, aspirations, mental state, cultural impact, functional needs, family/carer needs, risk, physical health, and complicating factors
• identify and ensure specialist involvement where required
• develop, deliver and review comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using evidence-based practice, including risk management, bringing in other resources as required
• act as care coordinator for service users as appropriate, providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers’ caseloads
• plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process (in line with personal recovery plans), including to service users who may be on other caseloads
• provide individual or group therapy, psychological treatments (e.g., CBT, DBT), family and psychosocial interventions, motivational and coping strategies
• provide medication management and interventions under the Mental Health Act
• support carers to improve their ability to support the service user
• develop and maintain partnerships with Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and nominated carers/advocates
• facilitate crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements with service users and carers, involving other agencies as appropriate
• build and lead hopeful, strengths-based relationships to enable personal recovery plans
• manage own workload and plan others’ workloads, using electronic resources
• protect individuals from abuse and harm in line with safeguarding policies, developing and reviewing protection plans
• coordinate protective interventions as required
• promote patient-oriented health management and collaboration to develop skills for self-management
• provide active clinical leadership and supervision within the team
• maintain health and social care records in accordance with standards, report within agreed timeframes
• participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision; provide mentoring and training for others in relevant practice areas
• develop own practice in line with professional qualifications and contribute to the development of others through feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal
• adhere to professional codes of conduct and maintain necessary competencies
• monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others; access identified learning and training opportunities
• lead and participate in practices that enable effective team working and manage occasional staff absences

Commitment to Diversity and Working Arrangements

We are proud to foster a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. We are committed to improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, 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 essential criteria. This includes people with disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (e.g., 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 patterns and hours. We do our utmost to work with staff to meet their needs and those of service users.

Working for our organisation

We are Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services across Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire, and parts of Dorset. Our people promote mental health and wellbeing, with a person-centred approach. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees provide better care. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds, especially from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, those with disabilities, and from the LGBTQ+ community. We invite applicants to bring their unique experiences and perspectives to AWP, as diversity strengthens our organisation.