Job summary
We are inviting applications from registered nurses, social workers or occupational therapists to join the Central & East Assessment & Recovery Team based in Speedwell, Bristol.

We are a welcoming and supportive team with a consistent, established leadership team, that prioritises the wellbeing of staff to enable the delivery of high quality care and treatment.

We are a multidisciplinary Recovery Team which covers Central and East Bristol. As a keyworker you will hold a diverse and complex caseload and deliver recovery focused interventions

Main duties of the job
The post holder will focus on high quality assessment of service users and delivery of focused recovery based interventions. You will be required to contribute towards the planning, implementation and review of care alongside a multi-disciplinary team.

Applicants will have a commitment to working with service users creatively towards their identified recovery goals and to promote choice and self-management.

All Recovery Practitioners may at times be required to undertake both assessment and key working dependant on the needs of the team.

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.

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 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.

Details
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 342-BR156-1026
Closing date: 28 October 2026

Job responsibilities

• To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health service.
• To undertake the delivery of Personalised Care and Support Planning in line with the Your Team your Conversation-Your Plan Policy and guidance. To work to the Principles of your team-your conversation-your plan: Coproduced, Collaborative. Focused on Human Rights and Equalities. Transparent and positive approach to working with risk. Proportionate. Trauma informed.
• To provide care and support in line with the three quality pillars: Building relationships with people. Spending time reflecting on what might be helpful. Communicating well with all people involved, friends, family and carers.
• Your Team to facilitate a team around the person approach; working collaboratively with peoples social networks and with a range of agencies.
• Your Conversation to have regular personalised support conversations with people you are working with. To take dialog outcome measures within the conversations and to use these strength based conversations to co-create advance plans to keep people well and safe in the future.
• Your Plan to use Support Conversations to co-create and refresh the Personal Wellbeing Plan.
• To record risk incidents and to collaboratively create and update Safety Assessments and Safety Plans.
• To provide personalised interventions to support people with Mental Health difficulties.
• To sometimes act as a Keyworker for people to whom you are delivering interventions. A keyworker is the key point of contact for people and their families and other teams and services. Keyworkers take a lead role in making sure that everyone who is working with the person understands the plan and is working together as a team, and take lead responsibility for Support Conversations and making sure the Personal Wellbeing Plan makes sense.
• To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, non-profession specific specialist therapeutic interventions, including individual or group therapeutic intervention, psychological treatments such as CBT and DBT approaches, family interventions, psychosocial interventions, motivational and coping enhancement strategies, and medication management (supporting medication concordance using occupational solutions and assistive technology).

Person specification
Essential

• Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, OT, Social Worker
• Current relevant registration with the NMC/HCPC/SW England and commitment to CPD.
• Able to manage a complex caseload, undertake frontline assessment, assess and manage risks
• Demonstrates a developed understanding of the recovery principles and the role of Specialist Recovery Practitioner
• Experience of community mental health work

Desirable

• Relevant post-registration qualifications, such as DBT, Non Medical Prescribing, CBT
• Experience of supervising junior staff and trainees

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

Employer contact details
Team Manager: Hanna Paddock, hanna.paddock@nhs.net, 01179556098

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. 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.