Job summary
Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

This role is focused on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with severe and enduring mental health needs, and their carers (including friends and relatives) and their supporters in the community, enabling and assisting them to meet the outcomes that are important to them and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.

The post holder will also provide clinical leadership and supervision to team members.

The role involves providing profession specific interventions to people and also bringing professional expertise into the Multi-Disciplinary Team. In addition, there may be a need to provide non-profession specific, defined, personalised interventions that are agreed through Support Conversations. These might include a range of possible generic, evidence based therapeutic interventions where staff are trained to deliver these interventions.

The role involves being responsible for Personalised Care and Support Planning through the AWP Your-Team-Your Conversation-Your Plan approach, including taking on the role of "keyworker" at times and completing Safety Assessments. There may also be requirements to support the delivery of Social Care Assessments and reviews where required.

Main duties of the job
To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver an ongoing comprehensive mental health service.

To facilitate 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

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 people's 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.

Job responsibilities
They include:

• Actively initiate collaborative assessments, goal setting and planning to enable decision making when working with service users and their families, using appropriate communication skills and strength based approaches.
• Identify service user needs through effective assessment and use the information obtained to plan individualised nursing care using a range of contemporary assessment and improvement tools.
• To influence developments that improve the persons experience, whilst advocating on behalf of service users.
• Uphold and fulfil the nursing interventions seen as most effective and helpful for mental health service-users such as 1:1 support/time to focus and explain the clinical, social, practical options for treatment and best available evidence, as well as knowing/advising when to use medication.
• Demonstrate high-level knowledge of biopsychosocial approaches/interventions.

Essential

• Registered mental health nurse with NMC registration
• Experience working in community mental health setting

Desirable

• Experience working within a recovery team
• Experience of medication administration
• Experience of delivering psychological interventions

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.

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

Salary £39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata
Contract Permanent
Working pattern Part-time
Reference number 342-SGLOS044-1126
Closing date 19 November 2026

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is committed to equality of opportunity and encourages applicants from all backgrounds.