Band 7 Senior Practitioner - Weston-super-Mare

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Weston-super-Mare is seeking a Senior Practitioner to deliver high-quality recovery services and provide leadership to the team. The role involves managing complex cases, conducting clinical supervision, and working collaboratively with various agencies. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership skills and mental health experience, contributing to the development of therapeutic interventions. The organization values diversity and encourages applications from all backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Experience of managing and leading on complex cases is essential.
• Ability to undertake complaint investigations and patient safety reports.
• Demonstrated capacity to provide clinical supervision and training.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership support to the team.
• Work collaboratively with local authority colleagues and partner agencies.
• Contribute to the development of treatment pathways and interventions.

Skills

Leadership skills

Mental health experience

Personal resilience

Team collaboration

Education

Registered practitioner qualification

Job description

The Senior Practitioner will work closely with the Team manager and Service Manager as part of the recovery management team to deliver a high quality and effective recovery service.

The postholder will provide leadership support to the team on a day to day basis, chairing meetings, attending MDT's and professionals meetings, managing referrals and allocation of work.

The Senior Practitioner will be involved and support the staff in the team with complex and high risk situations; experience of managing and leading on complex cases is essential.

Support the team in their work through providing both ad hoc and regular clinical and managerial caseload supervision, training and reflective supervision.

Work collaboratively with our local authority colleagues, partner agencies, teams and services.

To contribute to the development of a range of treatment pathways and evidence based therapeutic interventions within the team.

The Senior Practitioner will be responsible for undertaking both early resolution and formal complaint investigations, patient safety reports, participating in patient safety huddles, attending patient safety ratification panels and participating in the managers duty rota.

We are looking for a registered practitioner who can bring a wealth of knowledge, mental health experience and strong leadership skills to join us.

Working in a recovery team can be fast paced, with constantly changing, competing demands; therefore personal resilience, a positive attitude, a good sense of fun and a passion for working together as a team are essential.

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.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

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.