Band 6 Intensive Practitioner-HMP

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Whitfield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is seeking a Specialist Practitioner to join the Incentivised Substance Free Living Team within the Wellbeing Service at HMP Eastwood Park. You will work in a multidisciplinary team providing comprehensive mental health assessments and delivering recovery‑focused interventions for people with complex needs, including substance misuse.

The post involves autonomous clinical work, risk assessment, care coordination, and providing supervision to colleagues

Qualifications

• Diploma level/degree in health or social care and current registration with NMC or HCPC.
• Post-registration experience in frontline adult mental health services.
• Experience mentoring/assessing students and learners.
• Experience of risk assessment and risk management strategies.
• Understanding of recovery principles and secondary mental health services.
• Knowledge of CPA process, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive mental health assessments and deliver evidence‑based, recovery‑focused interventions.
• Manage risk, develop and review care and crisis plans, coordinate care.
• Deliver individual or group therapeutic interventions (CBT, psychosocial, family interventions).
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and support to colleagues and learners.
• Collaborate with prison, probation, healthcare, voluntary and community partners.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Clinical leadership

Risk assessment

Interventions delivery

Education

Diploma/degree in health or social care

NMC/HCPC registration

CPD commitment

Job description

Are you an experienced registered mental health or social care professional looking for a rewarding role where you can help shape a developing service? We are seeking a compassionate and motivated Specialist Practitioner to join the Incentivised Substance Free Living Team, part of the integrated Wellbeing Service at HMP Eastwood Park. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will provide comprehensive mental health assessments and deliver evidence‑based, recovery‑focused interventions for people with complex mental health, wellbeing and substance misuse needs. [key local...nformation | Word], [AWP Job De...c Template | Word] You will manage risk, develop and review care and crisis plans, coordinate care, facilitate individual or group interventions and work closely with prison, probation, healthcare, voluntary and community partners. You will also provide clinical leadership, supervision and support to colleagues and learners. [key local...nformation | Word], [AWP Job De...c Template | Word], 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 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 postholder 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., To be responsible for developing delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required. 3.To act as care coordinator for service users as appropriate, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads. 4.To 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 maybe on other caseloads. This might include: a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention b. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches , family interventions c. Psychosocial interventions d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies. e. Medication management f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act, 5. To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user. 6. To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates. 7. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.

• Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, OT, Social Worker.
• Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC and commitment to CPD, Relevant post-registration qualifications, such as Thorn, CBT, AMHP, Brief Interventions etc., Demonstrates substantial post-registration experience gained working in a range of frontline adult mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering interventions.
• Demonstrates substantial experience of, and relevant professional practice qualification in mentoring/assessing students and learners.
• Demonstrates substantial experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies., Demonstrates a developed understanding of the recovery principles, and the role of secondary mental health services in the delivery of care.
• Able to articulate a detailed understanding of the relevant legal frameworks/legislation including CPA process, Mental Health Act , Mental Capacity Act, and Safeguarding., Is able to deliver from a range of possible key therapeutic interventions CBT, Psychosocial interventions, Family Interventions, DBT approaches.
• Highly developed written communication skills, with experience of compiling and sorting notes and reports, establishing statistical data and analysing information
• Highly developed verbal communication skills, able to engage effectively with people at all levels even when a more assertive approach is needed. 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.