Band 6 Intensive Specialist Practitioner - Bristol

NHS Jobs; West of England; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Bristol is seeking a Band 6 Intensive Specialist Practitioner to deliver comprehensive mental health assessments across diverse settings. You will coordinate care, support carers, and work within a multidisciplinary team to craft crisis plans and recovery journeys for service users.

You will lead safeguarding activities, manage workload, and contribute to learning and supervision within the team, helping individuals progress on their personal recovery paths in line with professional

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive mental health assessment across a range of situations and locations.
• Provide interventions to support carers and service users, enabling recovery and partnership working.
• Lead protective interventions and safeguarding activities in line with local policies.
• Maintain and manage caseload, documentation and governance within the team, including supervision and mentoring.
• Contribute to development of crisis/rapid access plans and advance statements with agencies as appropriate.

Job description

Band 6 Intensive Specialist Practitioner - Bristol

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 maybe required in the protection of others, as outline 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 andcompetencies 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.