Job Description
We are looking for Band 5 practitioners to come and join the BANES Recovery Team. We actively support and encourage personal and professional development, and we are a robust, stable, cohesive and experienced team. We have limited vacancies in the team now, so this is an opportunity for anyone wanting a developmental learning post and/or to undergo their preceptorship post qualification.
There will opportunities for training in a variety of Therapy pathways.
We work Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, although flexibility of hours can be discussed within reason.
The team provides care, treatment and support to service users aged 18-65 with secondary mental health needs.
The team is an integrated health and social care team and as such also performs delegated functions on behalf of the local authority. The service users accessing support from the team do not have to undergo separate referrals, rather we work with the person holistically and are able to support them with both their health and social care needs.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop or maintain varied skills, and to work in a person-centred and strengths focused way.
As a care coordinator, your focus will be on coordination or delivery of recovery focused interventions to people with severe and enduring mental health needs.
You will carry a caseload and contribute toward assessment, planning, implementation and review of care. We are keen for this role to retain a focus on the physical health needs of the people that we work with, including support with physical health monitoring, clozapine clinics and community and clinic depots, as well as linking with pharmacy, GP’s and other services to maintain seamless services and positive communication.
We are particularly interested in applications from Registered General Nurses and to be able to consider how your unique skills could be utilised within a Community Mental Health Team
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To contribute to 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. This may include:
2. The use of standardised assessment tools such as Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV
3. Recovery Star
4. History, strengths and aspirations
5. Mental state
6. Impact of culture and diversity
7. Functional needs
8. The needs of family and carer
9. Evaluation of risk
10. Physical health
11. Complicating factors
12. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
13. Social Care needs
14. Safeguarding and public protection
15. To contribute to planning, delivering and reviewing treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence–based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.
16. To act as care coordinator for identified service users, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
17. To contribute to the planning, delivery and evaluation of defined, therapeutic interventions as identified, in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads. This might include:
18. Individual or group therapeutic intervention
19. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches , family interventions
20. Psychosocial interventions
21. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.
22. Medication management
23. Interventions under the Mental Health Act,
24. To deliver a range of activities/defined interventions to improve the friends/relatives/carers (carers) ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.
25. To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services is maintained throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.
26. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.
27. To personally build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.
28. To be responsible for maintaining own workload, on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, making full use of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.
29. To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, by contributing with others to the plans to protect people at risk, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.
30. To facilitate access for service users and carers to appropriate community services and interventions outside secondary mental health services and across the complete recovery pathway.
31. Personally working collaboratively and sensitively with individuals with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experience and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.
32. To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.
33. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.
34. To proactively participate in management, workload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy, taking personal responsibility for making appropriate arrangements.
35. To provide mentoring/ training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care. Specifically this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students , participating in their learning objectives and assessments
36. Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal, and by providing appropriate information to help others.
37. To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.
38. To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography
39. To show willingness to support practices which foster and maintain team working.
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