Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust in Wiltshire is recruiting a registered mental health nurse for a community role based in Chippenham and Devizes. You will join a multidisciplinary team and work with individuals with severe mental illness, delivering person-centred care in the community.

This role emphasises empowering staff to reach full potential, with opportunities for professional development and a supportive team environment; travel to visit service users is required.

Qualifications

• Registered mental health nurse with clinical experience in working with individuals with severe mental illness.

Responsibilities

• Act as a keyworker within the psychotic pathway.
• Support conversations through a personal wellbeing and safety plan and use patient-reported outcome measures (dialogue +).

Skills

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job description

Job overview

An exciting new role has become available within NEW CMHT. We are a multidisciplinary team consisting of a talented pool of both registered and non-registered mental health professionals.

We are looking for a registered mental health nurse , who has clinical experience in working with individuals with severe mental illness.

We believe that empowering our staff to achieve their full potential directly improves outcomes for the people we support. In return, we offer a supportive team environment, opportunities for professional development, and the chance to make a real impact within your community.

This is a community role with a base in Chippenham and Devizes there is an aspect of being able to have access to independent transport to visit service users.

Main duties of the job

This role is for a keyworker within the psychotic pathway. We have moved away from the use of care programme approach (CPA) and now work with service users and carers under the “your team, your conversation, your plan" approach, which is a strength based, intervention led model of care, that supports the individual to address their own identified needs. We support the conversation through the use of a personal well-being and safety plan, as well the use of patient related outcome measures (dialogue +).