Positive Practice Worker

Integrated Care System; Bristol; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Bristol seeks a Positive Practice Worker. This role supports early career professionals aspiring for clinical training by offering practical experience in mental health care. Candidates with a BSc in Psychology or similar and a commitment to high-quality care are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• 12 months experience working with individuals with mental health issues.
• Awareness of current policy agendas on person-centred practice.
• Experience in clinical or health settings preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure adherence to person centred plans and promote positive outcomes.
• Act as guide for staff and maintain links with clinical teams.
• Monitor outcome data daily to support service users effectively.

Skills

Commitment to clinical psychology

Understanding of person-centred practice

Experience working with mental health

Education

Undergraduate BSc degree in Psychology

Allied Health or nursing

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Are you at the beginning of your journey to train as a registered clinician such as a clinical psychologist, nurse or occupational therapist? Are you passionate about upholding the human rights of people with complex mental health and behavioural needs Do you already have some experience in a support or care role and want more opportunity for supervision and to deliver evidence-based interventions? If so, we are inviting suitable candidates to apply.

Main duties of the job

The role of Positive Practice Worker is integral to our organisational strategy to deliver truly person centred, evidence based and human rights driven approaches for all users of our services. This is a direct care role working in a clinical environment within our shift rotas. You will have an allocated amount of supernumerary time built into your work plan to complete the aspects of the role. You will be responsible for ensuring that all areas of the service have continual access to a member of staff whose role it is to ensure adherence to person centred plans (including positive behaviour support plans) and to ensure and promote a continual focus on person centred outcomes across the service. To achieve this, you will work on one of our ICG services and will act as a guide and advisor for all staff, working to structured support plans. You will also act as a link to the established clinical teams in our services, ensuring that prescribed interventions are delivered, that care plans are co-produced alongside our service users and their families, and that outcome data is collected and monitored on a daily basis.

About us

Are you looking for a rewarding career? AtIris Care Group, you'll go home knowing that you'vemade a difference in peoples lives. Employing over 1,600 people, Iris Care Group is the largest independent health and social care provider across the Southwest of England and South Wales. We provide innovative, effective, and forward-thinking care for adults with specialist mental healthcare needs.

With over 90% of staff saying they enjoy their job; we are proud to have created environments where our staff feel rewarded and fulfilled.

Job responsibilities

The role of Positive Practice Worker is integral to our organisational strategy to deliver truly person centred, evidence based and human rights driven approaches for all users of our services. This is a direct care role working in a clinical environment within our shift rotas. You will have an allocated amount of supernumerary time built into your work plan to complete the aspects of the role. You will be responsible for ensuring that all areas of the service have continual access to a member of staff whose role it is to ensure adherence to person centred plans (including positive behaviour support plans) and to ensure and promote a continual focus on person centred outcomes across the service. To achieve this, you will work on one of our ICG services and will act as a guide and advisor for all staff, working to structured support plans. You will also act as a link to the established clinical teams in our services, ensuring that prescribed interventions are delivered, that care plans are co-produced alongside our service users and their families, and that outcome data is collected and monitored on a daily basis.

To succeed in this role you must have an interest in and commitment to the practice of clinical psychology as an applied science or will have a career aspiration in a related discipline. You will also be aware of current policy agendas relating to person centred practice, values-based practice and the need for services to continually focus on reducing restrictive interventions. Previous experience in working in services for people with Mental Health and Learning Disability is desirable.

This role is a development role that we aim to serve the purpose of supporting people at the early stage of their careers to progress either onto postgraduate clinical training or to training in other related professional careers. As an organisation we promote a culture of continuous learning and supervision and you will have access to regular team supervision from qualified clinical staff and to individual supervision from our operations team. We anticipate that people successful in this role will rotate around our service in order to secure experience with different client groups, before embarking on further clinical professional training.

Person Specification

Experience

• 12 months experience working with people with mental health problems, learning disability, and /or neurodevelopmental disorders (ASD/ADHD) in a health or social care setting (either as a paid or voluntary capacity).

Qualifications

• Undergraduate BSc degree in Psychology, Allied Health or nursing
• Experience of use of IT systems including production of statistical data (eg MS Excel)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.