Band 6 Perinatal Specialist Practitioner - South Wiltshire

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

This is a Band 6 post however we would consider a Band 5/6 developmental post for the right candidate.
The BSW Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health Service is looking for Care Co-ordinators to work within our team covering Wiltshire (North, South or Mid).
The team is multidisciplinary, providing support for women who experience serious mental health problems or present with a high risk of relapse during pregnancy and the postnatal period. We offer assessment and treatment aimed at treating mental ill health and enhancing the mother infant relationship, where mental health needs have impacted upon this. We provide multi agency training in perinatal mental health to other professionals and agencies working with women in the perinatal period in addition to offering consultation and advice. Currently, the team is able to work alongside women and their families from pregnancy until their infants first birthday.
The Specialist Community Perinatal Team works across BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire. We have a hub and spoke model - the hub is in Chippenham, Wiltshire. The spokes are in Paulton (BaNES), Swindon and Salisbury.
This post is suitable for experienced and professionally registered Nurses, Occupational Therapists or Social Workers. You must have experience of working with women in the perinatal period or a good understanding of the specific mental health issues that can affect these women.
Perinatal Mental Health is a rapidly expanding area with significant investment being made. This means that there will be high quality training and potential opportunities for career development for the successful candidates.
You will be required to provide assessment and care co-ordination for an allocated caseload of service users with perinatal mental health needs. This will include key tasks of undertaking high quality assessments, developing care plans, delivering and reviewing therapeutic interventions. You will act as a supervisor and role model to others. You will also be required to act as a mentor to students, cover duty on a rotational basis and provide training to teams both within and outside of AWP. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate a high level of decision making skills and to work independently. They must also have a good understanding of safeguarding.
Access to your own transport for work use is essential as public transport is unreliable in parts of the BSW area.
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.
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.
1. To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive Mental Health
assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and
in a range of settings. This will include: a. The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster
Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV b. Recovery Star c. History, strengths and aspirations d. Mental
state e. Impact of culture and diversity f. Functional needs g. The needs of family and carer h. Evaluation
of risk i. Physical health j. Complicating factors k. The interventions and treatments required to enable
positive change. l. Social care needs m. Safeguarding and public protection n. Capacity under the Mental
Capacity Act
2. 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.
3. To act as care coordinator for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined
interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
4. 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,
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of
complex comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other
agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.
8. To personally build and lead others to 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, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day
to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising of electronic resources such as
diaries/scheduling.
10. To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local
safeguarding policies and procedures, including working with others in the planning development and
review of protection plans, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.
11. Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which maybe required in the protection of
others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.
12. Personally and leading others to 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 experiences and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.
13. Undertake supervision for other colleagues within the team, covering for the manager and
colleagues as required.
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 participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.
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.
Specifically this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and
supervising of students , participating in their learning objectives and assessments
18. Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and
for contributing to the development of others, by making use of and providing, effective feedback,
supervision, coaching and appraisal.
19. Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and
taking appropriate action where required.
20. Develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of
available feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify appropriate areas of development for this work
role, taking responsibility for accessing identified learning and training opportunities.
21. Lead, maintain and participate in practices which enable effective team working.
22. To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the
local geography

Please refer the Job description for details