Band 6 Specialist Practitioner - Bristol

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Mental Health Nurse to join their Specialised Care Home and Enhanced Dementia Service. This role involves providing assessments, formulating care plans, and supporting individuals and families experiencing challenges related to dementia. The ideal candidate will possess robust assessment skills and a commitment to collaborative care within a multidisciplinary team. A valid driving licence and personal transport are required for this position.

Benefits

Paid mileage for clinical visits

Support with career progression

Opportunities for career development

Comprehensive induction period

Access to learning materials

Qualifications

• Applicants must have a valid driving licence and access to own transport.
• Experience in providing psychosocial interventions for dementia patients.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide robust assessments and formulate care plans.
• Work with individuals, families, and carers.
• Support individuals experiencing psychological symptoms of dementia.

Skills

Mental Health Nursing

Assessment skills

Risk management

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

Are you a Mental Health Nurse, Registered Nurse, Allied Health Professional or Social Worker? If so, we would love to hear from you. The Specialised Care Home and Enhanced Dementia Service provides psychosocial interventions at times of crisis, as alternatives to admission to our later life dementia wards. The team works in two parts: we support individuals and carers in their own homes, and those who reside in care homes. We sit alongside the Later Life Community Mental Health team, with good working relationships, and share a pool of experienced later life medics. The team is made up of nurses, a social worker, occupational therapists and support workers.

Benefits

• Paid mileage for clinical visits
• Support with career progression
• Opportunities and support for career development
• Encouragement and opportunities to contribute to service improvement
• Comprehensive induction period
• Regular review of caseloads
• Morning multidisciplinary support meetings
• Access to learning materials
• Community working hours
• Team building and away day events
• Team social ev

Main Duties

The Specialised Care Home and Enhanced Dementia Service is a specialist team aimed at providing a safe and supportive alternative to a psychiatric hospital admission for adults with a diagnosis of dementia. We work with individuals, families, and carers who are experiencing increasing difficulties due to behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. We also support individuals who have a long-standing functional mental health illness, which may be complicated by their dementia diagnosis.

The main duties of the role will be to provide a robust assessment, including assessment of risk, identifying needs, and formulating care plans to meet identified needs and mitigate risk. As a team we work alongside other services to plan, deliver, and review effective "wrap around" interventions to manage risk and prevent hospital admission.

Applicants must have a valid driving licence and access to own transport, as the South Gloucestershire Specialised Care Home and Enhanced Dementia Service covers a large geographical area. Public transport is not an acceptable method to fulfil the role’s requirements.

About the Trust

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. 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.