Band 6 Intensive Specialist Practitioner

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; West of England; Presencial; GBP 40.000 - 48.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust invites applications for a Band 6 Specialist Intensive Practitioner based at Kingswood Civic Centre. The post is fixed-term for 12 months to cover maternity leave, on Agenda for Change pay scale.

You will join a friendly multidisciplinary team, lead shifts as shift coordinator, manage referrals and carry out comprehensive assessments and risk management. There is opportunity to develop services and work toward least restrictive practice.

Formación

• Diploma level/Degree in relevant health profession, eg RMN.
• Current registration with the NMC and commitment to CPD.

Responsabilidades

• Accepting and reviewing referrals; complete community and hospital assessments for home treatment or gatekeeping.
• Implement risk management and care plans with least restrictive practice.
• Medication management and concordance within the community.
• Lead on clinical governance, supervision and team development.
• Contribute to service development and new ways of working.

Educación

Diploma level/Degree in relevant health profession (eg RMN)

Current registration with the NMC

Descripción del empleo

Job summary

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.

An opportunity has arisen in South Glos Intensive Team for an enthusiastic and experienced practitioner to work as Band 6 Specialist Intensive Practitioner. The successful applicant will be working at Kingswood Civic Centre on a fixed term contract for one year to cover maternity leave. The multidisciplinary team is friendly, supportive and well established. Staff share a caseload of people who need intensive support.

Key roles include, leading shifts as a shift coordinator, reviewing and accepting referrals, completing thorough core assessments, risk management and care plans, with the intention to treat people at home in the community if possible, or for gatekeeping if a hospital admission is indicated whilst ensuring we use the least restrictive practice at every opportunity. The service also supports people leaving hospital prior to referring or signposting or to other AWP or voluntary and third sector agencies. The successful applicant will also contribute to ensuring the safety of our service users, carers and others by taking part in a variety of multidisciplinary meetings. There will also be an opportunity to contribute to Service development and lead on new ways of working as the team change in line with CMHF.

Main duties of the job

Accepting and reviewing referrals, completion of assessments within the community and general hospital settings for home treatment or gatekeeping for hospital admission. Implementation of Risk Management and Care Plans for the effective home treatment of Service Users utilising least restrictive practice at every opportunity. Medication management and concordance within community. Other duties and responsibilities including inline with job description.

There will be a comprehensive induction to the role and the successful applicant will have a supernumerary period to aid with the transition. Regular meaningful supervision and opportunities to enhance and learn new skills is available and encouraged.

South Glos Intensive Team is a 7 day, 24 hour service and the successful applicant will be able to work a mixture of shifts that can enrich one's home life/work balance. Enhancements are paid for unsocial hours.

Excellent communication and organisational skills as well as an ability to work with a diverse staff group and autonomously are essential to this role, along with the clinical knowledge and skills such as an in-depth knowledge of safeguarding when working at the level of a Band 6 member of staff. Further information is available in the job description.

About us

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 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million 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.

Details

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year

Contract: Fixed term, 12 months

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 342-SGLOS043-1026

Job locations: Kingswood Civic Centre, High Street, Kingswood, Bristol, BS15 9TR, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• In a wide range of situations and locations to undertake the full range of activities required to deliver comprehensive mental health assessment, in an emergency for service users, who may be distressed and in crisis.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• To personally build and lead others to build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.
• To be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.
• To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, including working with others in the planning development and review of protection plans.
• Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which may be required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.
• Personally and leading others to collaboratively and sensitively work with individuals, with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experience and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.
• Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.
• To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.
• Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.
• To participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.
• To provide mentoring/training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care. Specifically this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students, participating in their learning objectives and assessments.
• 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.
• To adhere to professional codes 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.
• Lead, maintain and participate in practices which enable effective team working.

Person Specification

Qualifications - Essential

• Diploma level/Degree in relevant health profession, eg RMN
• Current relevant registration with the NMC and commitment to CPD.

Qualifications - Desirable

• Relevant post-registration qualifications, such as Thorn, Non-Medical Prescribing, CBT, AMHP, Brief Interventions etc

Experience - Essential

• Demonstrates substantial post-registration experience gained working in a range of frontline adult mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering intervention
• Demonstrates a developed understanding of the recovery principles, and the role of secondary mental health services in the delivery of care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address: Kingswood Civic Centre, High Street, Kingswood, Bristol, BS15 9TR, United Kingdom

Employer's website: http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Team Manager Karen Hillier, [e-mail], 01173784250

Closing date: 09 November 2026