Band 5-6 Intensive Practitioner (Development Role) - South Wiltshire

at  Avon Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

In a wide range of situations and locations to contribute to the full range of activities required to deliver comprehensive mental health assessment, in an emergency for service users, who may be distressed and in crisis. This may include: a. The use of standardised assessment tools i.e. Cluster Allocation Support Tool(CAST), KGVb.
Recovery Starc. History, strengths and aspirationsd. Mental statee. Impact of culture and diversityf.
Functional needsg. The needs of family and carerh. Evaluation of riski. Physical healthj.
Complicating factorsk. Identifying and ensuring specialist involvement where required.l. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.m. Social care needsn.
Safeguarding and public protection 2. To contribute to planning, delivering and reviewing treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required. 3. To act as care coordinator for identified service users, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
4. To contribute to the planning, delivery and evaluation of defined, therapeutic interventions as identified, in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads. This might include: a. Individual or group therapeutic interventionb.
Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches , family interventionsc. Psychosocial interventionsd. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.e. Medication managementf.
Interventions under the Mental Health Act, 5. To deliver a range of activities/defined interventions to improve the carers ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user. 6. To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services is maintained throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.
7. 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. 8. To personally build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.
9. To be responsible for maintaining own workload, on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, making full use of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling. 10. To be responsible for maintaining own workload on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, making full use of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.
11. To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, by contributing with others to the plans to protect people at risk, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information. 12. To facilitate access for service users and carers to appropriate community services and interventions outside secondary mental health services and across the complete recovery pathway.
13. Personally working collaboratively and sensitively work with individuals, with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experience and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal. 14. To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.
15. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements. 16. To proactively participate in management, work load and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy, taking personal responsibility for making appropriate arrangements.
17. To provide mentoring/ training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care. 18. Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal, and by providing appropriate information to help others.
Specifically this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students , participating in their learning objectives and assessments. 19. To participate in local arrangements where required to manage unexpected staff absences. 20.
To show willingness to support practices which foster and maintain team working. 21. To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained

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