Band 6 Specialist Practitioner - Bath

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Bath; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Band 6 clinician to join an overnight Divisional Intensive Service. Based across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire, the role triages urgent referrals and delivers crisis assessments outside standard hours.

You will provide brief interventions, develop safety plans, and conduct risk assessments, working with carers, families and partner agencies to arrange appropriate onward referrals within a

Qualifications

• Band 6 clinician with experience in crisis care and assessment.
• Ability to triage urgent mental health referrals.
• Experience working in out-of-hours (OOH) settings.

Responsibilities

• Triage urgent mental health referrals and carry out assessments of people attending the ED in mental health crisis.
• Offer brief interventions to people in crisis, in person and on the phone.
• Develop safety plans and carry out risk assessments with patients, carers and families.
• Liaise with professionals, partner agencies, carers and families; make onward referrals including safeguarding.

Skills

Crisis assessment

Overnight shift

Risk assessment

Safeguarding

Job description

This is a unique role within a dedicated overnight mental health service and would suit an existing Band 6 clinician with the skills, confidence and passion to deliver high quality crisis care and assessment.

The OOH Divisional Intensive Service delivers urgent and intensive overnight mental health support across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW), seven days a week. Operating as a stand alone team with a clear clinical identity and protected remit, the service will plat a critical role in supporting people at times of acute need, outside of traditional working hours.

The team work across two bases, Royal United Hospital (RUH) and Great Western Hospital, strengthening partnerships with acute services and reducing unnecessary travel for staff.

This overnight service comprises of 2 x Band 6 practitioners and a Band 4 Recovery Coordinator every night of the year, supporting and working alongside our colleagues in the acute hospitals., You will work as part of a small out of hours team, triaging urgent mental health referrals and carrying out assessments of people attending the acute hospitals' Emergency Department in mental health crisis.

You will offer brief interventions to people in crisis, in person and on the telephone.

You will develop safety plans and carry out risk assessments with patients, carers and families.

You will liaise with professionals, partner agencies, carers and families, making onward referrals where appropriate, including safeguarding.

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.