Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner (Psychotic Pathway)

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Are you Dynamic? Motivated? Passionate about community based care? A registered Mental Health Nurse?
If you can answer yes to these questions then we want you to apply for our band 6 post in West Wilts CMHT. We are redesigning the model of care based on identified pathways and looking for clinicians who are skilled or have an interest in training to deliver interventions to service users on a psychotic pathway.
If you are up for the challenge this is an exciting opportunity for clinicians to work in a focused way developing skills for an identified group of individuals in a psychotic pathway improving the outcomes and experience for our service users and their carers.
The successful applicant will be responsible for the care co-ordination of a complex caseload of service users who have psychotic illnesses, this may include service users with co-existing substance misuse issues.
The role will involve providing therapeutic interventions yourself and also linking in with other professionals to co-ordinate their interventions, this will all be done within the CPA process.

Care co-ordination of a complex caseload of service users with psychotic illnesses.
Leading the CPA process.
Multi-agency working.
Risk management working.
Administration of medications.
Fulfilling the CMHT duty worker role on a rolling rota.
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.
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.