Job summary
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.

Interview date: 25th November 2026. No other interview dates or remote interviews will be available.

Main duties of the job
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.

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 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million 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.

Details
Date posted: 14 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata
Contract: Bank
Working pattern: Flexible working
Reference number: 342-BARP-1026

Job responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive mental health assessment in emergency situations, including use of standardised tools such as the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), Recovery Star, risk evaluation, and identification of specialist involvement where required.
• Develop, deliver and review comprehensive and complex treatment programmes in line with evidence-based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers.
• Act as care coordinator or associate care coordinator, providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
• Plan, deliver and evaluate defined specialist therapeutic interventions, including CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions, psychosocial interventions, motivational enhancement and medication management, in line with personal recovery plans.
• Support carers to improve their ability to support the service user and maintain their relationship with the service user.
• Develop and maintain partnership working with primary health care, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and nominated carers/advocates.
• Facilitate the development of crisis plans, rapid access plans and advance statements in collaboration with service users, carers and other agencies.
• Manage own workload and plan the workload of others, prioritising effectively using electronic diaries and scheduling tools.
• Protect individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies, including planning, developing and reviewing protection plans.
• Provide active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.
• Maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring paper and electronic records are kept up to date.
• Provide mentoring, training and student supervision in relevant practice areas.
• Adhere to professional codes of conduct and maintain required skills and competencies.

Person Specification
Qualification

• Essential: Diploma / degree in relevant health / social care.

Registration

• Essential: Current relevant registration with NMC or HCPC.

Experience

• Essential: Demonstrated commitment to CPD.
• Essential: Substantial post-registration experience gained working in a range of front line adult mental health services.
• Essential: Developed understanding of the recovery principles.
• Essential: Experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies.
• Essential: Developed IT skills including competent use of Microsoft Office and electronic record keeping systems.

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details
Employer name: Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Employer's website: http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/

Contact: awp.clinicalbank@nhs.net, 01225258518

Application: Apply through our website.

The closing date is 28 October 2026.