Band 7 FIND Senior Practitioner - Bristol

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; West of England; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a senior practitioner to lead the FIND Team within AWP Secure Services at Fromeside Hospital. You will work closely with the Team Manager and Senior Practitioners to uphold high professional nursing standards across the service.

The post involves specialist risk assessments (HCR-20, Dundrum) and oversight of High Secure patients, with collaboration to deliver safe, effective care and support for discharged individuals up to 12

Qualifications

• Registered qualification and professional registration.
• Interest in Learning Disability and Autism, and understanding of how they present across care services.
• Experience with multidisciplinary colleagues and risk assessment/management.

Responsibilities

• Clinical leadership to motivate, guide and support staff and model best practice.
• Caseload management with a suitably sized caseload and clinical supervision responsibilities.
• Ensure compliance with professional, legal, and national standards.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Caseload management

Communication skills

Education

NMC registered nurse

Tools

HCR-20 risk assessment

Dundrum 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

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