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NHS Jobs; Falfield; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is recruiting for a Band 6 Intensive Practitioner at HMP Eastwood Park. The post involves developing, delivering and reviewing complex treatment programmes aligned with evidence-based practice, including risk management for service users with complex needs.

You will also act as a care coordinator, delivering targeted interventions to service users and those on other caseloads, and plan, deliver and evaluate specialist therapies such as CBT/DBT, psychosocial interventions, and

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Develop, deliver and review comprehensive, complex treatment programmes with evidence-based practice, including risk management for complex needs.
• Act as care coordinator for service users and provide interventions to individuals on other workers' caseloads.
• Plan, deliver and evaluate specialist therapeutic interventions per assessment and recovery plans.
• Individual or group therapeutic interventions.
• CBT/DBT and family interventions.
• Psychosocial interventions.
• Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.
• Medication management.
• Interventions under the Mental Health Act.
• Deliver activities to improve carers' ability to support service users and their relationship.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with primary care, inpatient and day services, voluntary sector and carers/advocates.
• Facilitate development of crisis plans, rapid access plans and advance statements with other agencies as appropriate.

Job description

Band 6 Intensive Practitioner-HMP Eastwood Park

• To be responsible for developing delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.
• To act as care coordinator for service users as appropriate, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
• To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process ,in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads. This might include:
  • a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention
  • b. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches , family interventions
  • c. Psychosocial interventions
  • d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.
  • e. Medication management
  • f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act,
• To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.
• To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.
• In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.