Band 7 Senior Practitioner - Kingswood Civic Centre

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

The Recovery team have an exciting opportunity to work with our passionate multi-disciplinary team as a Band 7 Senior Practitioner with the South Gloucestershire Recovery Community Mental Health Team.
You will work closely with the Team Manager and other Senior Practitioners to provide leadership for the multi-disciplinary team.
The team works with adults of working age who have severe mental health problems.
This role will give you the opportunity to develop your leadership and quality improvement skills.
You will be required to carry out assessments, and develop existing skills in specialist assessment and interventions.
You will need to be proactive, a good problem solver, have excellent clinical standards and experience in supervising members of the clinical team.
You will demonstrate an ability to develop therapeutic relationships with people in a range of challenging situations and demonstrate sound positive risk taking and clinical reasoning skills.
You will need excellent communication skills and be flexible and resourceful in your approach. We are looking to you to help develop our evidence based clinical pathways.
You will need to demonstrate your ability and commitment to team working and a genuine interest in achieving wellbeing and positive health outcomes for individuals with severe and enduring mental health problems.
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.

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