Band 6 Specialist Mental Health Practitioner - Swindon

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Swindon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health services provider in Swindon is seeking a Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist to join the Recovery Team. The role involves delivering comprehensive mental health assessments, acting as a care coordinator, and developing crisis plans for service users. Candidates should be registered professionals with experience in mental health care. This position offers a supportive and diverse work environment that promotes employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Good supervision structures

Training opportunities

Career progression support

Qualifications

• Candidates must be part of a professional registered body.
• Experience working with a variety of mental health needs.
• Passion for developing cutting edge and evidence based practice.

Responsibilities

• Deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessments.
• Act as care coordinator for identified service users.
• Facilitate development of comprehensive crisis plans.

Skills

Experience with mental health needs

Ability to develop evidence-based practices

Strong communication skills

Education

Professional registration in nursing, social work, or occupational therapy

Job description

Overview

An opportunity for a Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join the Swindon Recovery Team at Chatsworth House, Swindon, Wiltshire. Candidates must be part of a professional registered body, have experience working with a variety of mental health needs, and have a passion for developing cutting edge and evidence based practice.

The role focuses on providing effective interventions and treatments to people with severe and enduring mental health needs, and their carers. This involves enabling and assisting service-users to meet daily health, social care and wellbeing needs. Our aim is to empower and enable service-users to maintain or regain their independence in line with their personal recovery goals.

You can expect high levels of support and direction and to be actively involved in the models developed within the area with service management support. We offer a fast paced and challenging working environment, good supervision structures and training, and more opportunities to develop. A carer progression will be supported if identified in Appraisal.

Responsibilities

• To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings.
• To act as care coordinator for identified service users, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers’ caseloads.
• To contribute to the planning, delivery and evaluation of defined, therapeutic interventions as identified, in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who may be on other caseloads.
• 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 where appropriate.
• To be responsible for maintaining own workload on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively and making full use of 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.
• To proactively participate in management, workload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy, taking personal responsibility for making appropriate arrangements.

About AWP

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing, and the expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

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.