Band 7 FIND Senior Practitioner - Bristol

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; West of England; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is seeking an experienced nurse to lead the Forensic Intellectual, Neuropsychiatric & Developmental Disorders (FIND) Team within Secure Services. The post involves ensuring high professional nursing standards across the team and working closely with the Team Manager and Senior Practitioners.

The role requires substantial experience in forensic settings, with adults with learning disabilities and/or autism, and the ability to build strong

Qualifications

• Registered nursing qualification and professional registration are essential.
• Experience in forensic settings with adults with learning disabilities or autism is preferred.
• Ability to lead a team and supervise junior staff within a secure service.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to the FIND Team to ensure high-quality care.
• Manage a complex caseload and provide clinical supervision.
• Ensure compliance with professional, legal, and national standards within secure services.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Caseload management

Risk assessment

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

Registered nursing qualification

Professional registration

Tools

HCR-20 risk assessment

Job description

Job overview

This post is open to someone with appropriate professional registration and with substantial experience working in forensic settings with adults with learning disabilities and or Autism to join the FIND Team within AWP Secure Services.

The post-holder will work closely with the Team Manager and Senior Practitioners to ensure that excellent professional nursing standards are consistently upheld across the team.

The Forensic Intellectual, Neuropsychiatric & Developmental Disorders (FIND) team sits within AWP Secure Services at Fromeside Hospital, and includes providing consultation to other services, completing access assessments where someone may require admission to secure, and providing CCO to those discharged from Secure up to 12 months post discharge.

Effective caseload management and clinical supervision will be supported by robust and efficient individual and team supervision processes, all within the overarching framework of Personal Wellbeing Plans, and maintaining CPA standards of which have been set nationally for Secure services

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will play a key role in leading the FIND Team to deliver a high-quality, safe and effective service for service users and carers. Working in close partnership with inpatient Secure Services, they will ensure that excellent professional nursing standards are consistently upheld across the team.

Given the team's wide geographical footprint, the post-holder will be responsible for developing and sustaining strong, collaborative working relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.

• Clinical leadership - Motivating, guiding and supporting staff to deliver high-quality care, ensuring effective communication and modelling best practice


• Caseload management - Holding an appropriately sized caseload of complex service users, providing clinical supervision to B6s within team


• Quality and standards - Ensuring compliance with professional, legal and Trust and National standards

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• In addition to the standard Trust Senior Prac JD attached


• To undertake specialist risk assessment such as HCR-20, Dundrum


• To hold an oversight role of all High Secure patients


• Support the SLT with team consultations


• To provide expert forensic advice and consultation via Duty/team consultations/admission avoidance work

Person specification

Registration

Essential criteria

• A registered qualification and professional registration

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates an interest in and understanding of Learning Disability and Autsim, how they present across care services and appropriate interventions at different points on the pathway.


• Experience of working alongside multidisciplinary colleagues.


• Experience of risk assessment and management

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.