Bank Band 6 Registered Practitioner - Trustwide

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

THIS POST IS AVAILABLE TO ALL APPLICANTS WHO CAN DEMONSTRATE RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION, RMN, OT or SOCIAL WORKER.
Are you looking to expand your working environment, while maintaining control of where and when you work? With personal and professional development support whilst being flexible around you and your personal commitments? with the added bonus of weekly pay? Then AWP bank is just the opportunity for you!
AWP covers a large geographical area , from bustling Bristol to the heritage city of Bath, to the rural rolling hills of Wiltshire to the seaside in Weston-Super-Mare. You will be able to access shifts in up to 80 community teams .
We offer ample opportunities to work in our wide range of services ranging from Community Mental Health Teams, Primary Care Liaison, Intensive Teams, Early Intervention Teams, Recovery Services, Street Triage, Mentally Disordered Offenders Teams, Complex Intervention Team for Older Adults, and Drug and Alcohol Services. With such a wide variety of Services to choose from the work is both challenging and varied but also interesting and rewarding.
The Trust is required to carry out mandatory employment checks. Please bring the original ID documents requested below to your interview if selected.
This role is focussed on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with a range of 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 well being needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.
The post holder will work autonomously to undertake emergency assessment in a wide range of locations, planning and delivering defined, intensive, specialist interventions in line with the CPA framework to people with severe and enduring mental health needs, who maybe distressed and in crisis. Where appropriate the post holder will work alongside other services to plan, deliver and review effective “wrap around” intensive interventions to manage risk and prevent hospital admission for those with the most complex needs. The post holder will act as Care/Recovery coordinator or associate Care/Recovery coordinator as required.
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.
In a wide range of situations and locations to undertake the full range of activities required to deliver comprehensive mental health assessment, in an emergency for service users, who may be distressed and in crisis. This will include:
The use of standardised assessment tools i.e. Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST)

Please refer the Job description for details