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Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Devizes; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization in the United Kingdom is seeking mental health professionals to provide effective interventions for individuals with severe mental health needs. Responsibilities include crisis assessment, care coordination, and engaging with various services to support clients. Applicants are encouraged from diverse backgrounds, and a commitment to inclusive and effective mental health care is essential. The role offers flexible options and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Supportive work environment

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering comprehensive mental health assessments in emergencies.
• Knowledge of care coordination and safeguarding practices.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective interventions for people with severe mental health needs.
• Work alongside other services for integrated care delivery.
• Maintain up-to-date health and safety practices.

Skills

Crisis management

Care coordination

Therapeutic interventions (e.g., CBT, DBT)

Medication management

Crisis planning

Education

Relevant mental health qualifications

Job description

Job Description

This role is focussed on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with a range of mental health needs, and their carers (including friends and relatives) and their supporters in the community, enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, social care and well‑being needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.

The post holder will work autonomously to undertake emergency assessment in a wide range of locations, planning and delivering defined, intensive, specialist interventions in line with the CPA framework to people with severe and enduring mental health needs, who may be distressed and in crisis. Where appropriate the post holder will work alongside other services to plan, deliver and review effective “wrap‑around” intensive interventions to manage risk and prevent hospital admission for those with the most complex needs. The post holder will act as Care/Recovery coordinator or associate Care/Recovery coordinator as required.

Full range of activities to deliver comprehensive mental health assessment in emergencies include:

• Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST)
• KGV
• Recovery Star
• History, strengths and aspirations
• Mental state
• Impact of culture and diversity
• Functional needs
• Needs of family and carer
• Evaluation of risk
• Physical health
• Complicating factors
• Identifying and ensuring specialist involvement where required

Interventions and treatments required to enable positive change may involve:

• Social Care
• Safeguarding and public protection
• Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act
• Comprehensive and complex treatment programmes under evidence‑based frameworks, including risk‑management strategies
• Care coordination for service users and other caseloads
• Individual or group therapeutic interventions (e.g., CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions, psychosocial interventions, motivational and coping enhancement strategies)
• Medication management
• Interventions under the Mental Health Act
• Activities that improve the carer’s ability to support the service user and foster their relationship
• Partnership working with other services, Primary Health Care Team, inpatient, intensive, day services, voluntary sector, and carers/advocates
• Crisis planning, rapid access plans and advance statements involving primary care and other agencies
• Building inspiring relationships that acknowledge each person’s journey, focus on strengths and aspirations, and facilitate meaningful recovery plans

Additional responsibilities include maintaining workload planning, protecting individuals from abuse and harm, coordinating protective interventions, leading others sensitively, providing clinical leadership and supervision, ensuring accurate record‑keeping, reporting on activity, supervising and mentoring staff and students, upholding professional codes of conduct, and maintaining health, safety and security at work.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities and are committed to improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, 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.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis and will work with staff to meet their needs and those of service users.

About AWP

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 staff providing inpatient and community‑based mental health care across Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire and parts of Dorset. Our services reach approximately 1.8 million people and we promote a person‑centred approach for all users and employees.

The Trust may require mandatory employment checks. Please bring original ID documents if selected.

The interview date is 28th January 2026. No alternative dates will be available.