Job summary
A vacancy has arisen for a Band 5 qualified practitioner to join South Glos. recovery north team at The Elms. Your role will involve keyworker for service user with serious mental illness in the community.

We would welcome applications from newly qualified nurses and would offer a full preceptorship programme

The team provides a range of key interventions which can include:

• To provide assessment, formulation, treatment & therapeutic support for adults of working age with severe & enduring mental health and complex emotional needs.
• Pharmacological interventions - medication management, prescribing and monitoring.
• Psychosocial and psychological interventions.
• Working in collaboration with AWP MDT and non AWP services.
• Statutory work under the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.
• Working in partnership to promote safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and public protection.
• Recognition of carer's needs, signposting and help in accessing other services.

Main duties of the job
Applicants will need to demonstrate knowledge in the areas of the delivery of mental health care in the community,

You will be required to provide key-working for an allocated caseload of service users with substantial and complex mental health needs. This will include key tasks of undertaking high quality assessments, developing care plans, delivering and reviewing therapeutic interventions. You will act as a supervisor and role model to others.

Applicants will be expected to demonstrate a high level of decision making skills and to work independently. Applicants will also need to be proficient with the use of IT systems for both data and documentation purposes.

About us
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.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 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.
• 2. To contribute to planning, delivering and reviewing treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.
• 3. To act as keyworker for identified service users, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
• 4. 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.5. To deliver a range of activities/defined interventions to improve thefriends/relatives/carers (carers) ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.
• 6. 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.
• 7. 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.
• 8. To personally build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, whichacknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.
• 9. 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.
• 10. 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.
• 11. 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.
• 12. 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.
• 13. 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.
• 14. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.
• 15. To proactively participate in management, workload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy, taking personal responsibility for making appropriate arrangements.
• 16. 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.
• 17. 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.
• 18. To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills andcompetencies required are maintained.
• 19. To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.
• 20. To show willingness to support practices which foster and maintain team working.

Person Specification
Essential
Essential

• Essential knowledge, skills and experience
• Diploma / Degree and registration with the NMC
• Demonstrates a good understanding of recovery principles and the role of secondary mental health services in the delivery of care
• Able to articulate a sound understanding of the relevant legal frameworks/legislation including CPA process, Mental Health Act , Mental Capacity Act, and Safeguarding.
• Demonstrates significant experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies
• Demonstrates post-registration experience gained working in front-line mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering interventions.

Desirable

• Demonstrates experience of supervising others, monitoring their performance and ensuring delivery of activity.
• Ability to prioritise, particularly when working under pressure
• Well developed verbal communication skills, able to engage effectively with people at all levels including when a more assertive approach is needed.

Other Requirements
Essential

• Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times.
• Mobile with the facility to move quickly across a geographically dispersed area with limited access to public transport.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.