Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Bristol

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

The Bristol Recovery Outreach Service & Engagement Team (ROSE) have an opportunity for a Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner. We are seeking an experienced and passionate Nurse to join our team.
We are a dynamic and innovative team committed to excellence in every aspect of our service. We pride ourselves on our values of, doing our best, all of the time, listening, understanding and valuing what service users tell us, being open, honest, straightforward and reliable, relating to everyone as an individual, striving to provide the highest quality support. The success is driven by our talented and dedicated team who work together to achieve our goals.
The ideal candidate will be working with a complex group of service users who are hard to engage/reach and their families to deliver personalised, preventative interventions with a proactive approach for our local populations. Your role will be the key to improve the quality of service users lives, using creative and flexible interventions which will be reflected in a capped caseload.
On a typical week we meet to review progress and achievements. We work across three key location in Bristol, and each location has a friendly and caring environment, and supported by a Senior Practitioner, Clinical Psychologist and Consultant Psychiatrists. Supervision is central to our success to focus on successes. We use RiO and supply phones, laptops and home hubs for remote working, and to manage our own diaries.
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.
This role is focussed on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with severe and enduring 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 wellbeing needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with mainstream services. The post holder will also provide clinical leadership and supervision to team members.
Always under the overarching framework of CPA, the post holder will be responsible for the ongoing assessment, planning delivery and review of activities and interventions against identified health, social care and wellbeing needs, acting as care coordinator for a defined group of service users. The role will also require undertaking and delivering specific health or social care assessments and interventions, according to care clusters, including identified service users on other caseloads. This maybe either on a one to one basis, or as part of a group activity. Some regular out of hours working maybe required. recommendations for care and treatment within and across multiple care pathways.
The post-holder will work in conjunction with Primary Care colleagues to identify care and treatment options that enable service users to remain within their existing support/care pathways.
The post-holder will work with the AWP Primary Care Liaison Service (PCLS), Later Life Services, Recovery, Intensive Services, Acute Hospital Liaison Services and colleagues from Voluntary Community & Social Enterprise (VCSE),
Day to day leadership and support, will be provided by AWP managers, in conjunction with key contacts in primary care, such as a PCN GP Mentor. Access to senior clinical advice from the multi-disciplinary team at AWP will be available to support effective, clinical decision- making

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