Band 7 Senior Practitioner - Integrated Access Partnership

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Please see our additional info sheet for full details of our service
Are you ready to be at the forefront of revolutionary mental health care? Join the award-winning Mental Health Integrated Access Partnership (IAP) as a Senior Practitioner and become part of a ground-breaking initiative that’s reshaping urgent and emergency mental health services. This unique role offers you the chance to work across 999 and 111 services, directly impacting lives.
We are seeking dedicated Senior Practitioners to join our dynamic IAP team. As a senior clinical member of the team, you will help lead and oversee the daily clinical delivery of our service. The primary purpose of this role is to deliver high-quality mental health triage, assessment, and care coordination across various settings. You will play a crucial part in our multidisciplinary team, working to ensure patients receive timely, appropriate care that addresses both their mental and physical health needs.
This rotational post offers diverse experiences across multiple bases. You’ll be at the heart of our efforts to reduce inappropriate A&E attendances, decrease S136 detentions, and improve outcomes for individuals experiencing mental health crises.
This is a 24/7 service and will involve a range of shifts available. Please see additional information documents for more details.
Please see the IAP promotional video which will provide an oversight of the service here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUaAYFloE2o&feature=youtu.be

You would be primarily working clinically in the role demonstrating senior practice and leading by example. You will also supervise staff and support the team managers in working towards shared objectives.

• Provide specialist mental health triage and assessment across various settings.
• Offer clinical support and advice to emergency service professionals.
• Coordinate seamless, integrated responses addressing both mental and physical health needs.
• Participate in service development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Supervise and support team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
• Contribute to our 24/7 service delivery, including shift work covering days, nights, and weekends.

If you are considering relocating to the region, we can offer up to £8,000 relocation expenses (subject to terms and conditions).
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.
As a senior practitioner within the IAP, you will be the most senior clinical staff group within the team, and you role will be to provide senior specialist advice and support to colleagues, triaging, allocating and managing work demands ensuring the callers most in need are helped first. You will supervise colleagues and help develop those around you ensuring the IAP continues to be multi award winning and delivers exceptional mental health care.
For a detailed list of role responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification for this advert.
The IAP are an energetic and innovative team who strive to provide compassionate and person centred care to those accessing our service. To learn more about how the IAP works, please see our video: About the Mental Health Integrated Access Partnership - YouTube

At IAP, we prioritise the wellbeing and development of our staff. As a member of our team, you’ll benefit from:

• Access to tri-organisational wellbeing services from AWP, BrisDoc, and SWASFT.
• In-house wellbeing and training budget for maximum opportunities in personal and professional development.
• Attractive unsocial hours enhancements that significantly boost your monthly take-home pay.
• Regular social events and team-building activities.
• Three fully catered away days per year.
• Onsite amenities including coffee machines, massage chairs, and free tea/coffee.
• Birthday Gift.

• Provide specialist mental health triage and assessment across various settings.
• Offer clinical support and advice to emergency service professionals.
• Coordinate seamless, integrated responses addressing both mental and physical health needs.
• Participate in service development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Supervise and support team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
• Contribute to our 24/7 service delivery, including shift work covering days, nights, and weekends