Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Devizes, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

A new role has become available with the Wiltshire Dementia Service.

As a care co-ordinator in the team you will be responsible for a caseload of service users with a diagnosis of dementia, working within the CPA framework to deliver a range of health and social care interventions. You can expect to receive excellent supervision, and there will be opportunities for career development and training in order to support you in this role.

This post is based in West Wiltshire, however as the service is Wiltshire wide there may be a need, on occasion, to travel within the county.

Main duties of the job

To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users living with dementia, living in their own homes in the community and in a range of settings. This will include:

To act as care coordinator.

To plan, deliver and evaluate interventions.

To support carers

To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes.

To personally build and lead others to build, hope inspiring relationships with service users.

To be responsible for maintaining own and others workload.

To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures.

Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team.

To maintain accurate and timely record keeping.

To participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision.

To provide mentoring/training for others.

Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others.

Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.

Develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of available feedback, supervision and appraisal

Lead, maintain and participate in practices which enable effective team working

About us

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 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The team is a supportive, welcoming, compassionate team who are client focussed. The team consists of, Nurses, Support workers, administrative team, Consultant Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Occupational therapists etc

The service operates 0900 to 1700 Monday to Friday - closed on bank holidays.

To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users living with dementia, living in the community and in a range of settings

Please refer to the attached job description

Person Specification

application and interview

Essential

Current Full Registration with NMC (Mental Health) Clean driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes

Desirable

Experience of working with CPA process Previous community mental health nursing experience Evidence of extensive experience in relevant client group Knowledge of dementia

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