Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Chippenham

Transformation Unit; Chippenham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust in Chippenham seeks a Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner (RMN) to join a multidisciplinary team. The role focuses on delivering comprehensive mental health services within the community base, with a requirement for a UK driving licence for visiting service users.

The post offers a structured Band 6 role with opportunities for professional development and a commitment to person-centred care, in a supportive environment across Chippenham

Qualifications

• Must have excellent communication skills and work well in a multidisciplinary team.
• Significant experience in mental health services.
• Experience in assessing risk and developing risk management strategies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the full range of activities to provide an ongoing comprehensive mental health service.
• Facilitate Personalised Care and Support Planning per policy guidance.
• Record risk incidents and collaboratively update Safety Assessments and Plans.
• Provide personalised interventions to support people with mental health difficulties.
• Occasionally act as a Keyworker for people receiving interventions.
• Plan, deliver and evaluate defined nursing interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Provide mentoring/training within relevant practice areas to students and colleagues.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Teamworking

Education

RMN qualification (Registered Mental Nurse)

Job description

Employer Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site 32 New Road Town Chippenham Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/11/2026 23:59

Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Chippenham

Band 6

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 +).

Working for our organisation

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.

If you are a committed mental health professional with an RMN qualification, with excellent communication skills, who likes working as part of a team.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver an ongoing comprehensive mental health service.

2. To facilitate the delivery of Personalised Care and Support Planning in line with the Your Team your Conversation-Your Plan” Policy and guidance.

3. To record risk incidents and to collaboratively create and update Safety Assessments and Safety Plans.

4. To provide personalised interventions to support people with Mental Health difficulties.

5. To sometimes act as a Keyworker for people to whom you are delivering interventions.

6. To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, non-profession specific specialist therapeutic interventions.

7. To plan, deliver and evaluate Nursing Interventions as a member of a Multi- Disciplinary Team.

8. To work as a member of a Multi-Disciplinary Team, assisting it to function well. Providing profession specific leadership, input and understanding, respecting and utilising the input of other professionals to enhance the overall quality of support provided.

9. To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to support Carers.

10. 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 of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.

11. 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, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

12. Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which may be required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.

13. Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.

14. 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.

15. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

16. To participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.

17. 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 assessment and supervision of students , participating in their learning objectives and assessments.

Please refer to Band 6 job description for further details.

Person specification

• Must have a UK drivers licence
• Demonstrates significant experience of, and relevant professional practice.
• Experience of working within mental health services
• Demonstrates significant experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.