Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner - Swindon

Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner - Swindon

Are you a Mental Health Nurse or Social Worker, looking for an opportunity to work within community mental health services?

We have an opportunity for both experienced Band 5 practitioners, or newly qualified Band 5 practitioners with minimum of 6 months experience in post qualifying post (successful 6 months ASYE or preceptorship sign off), to support their transition to Band 6 role.

In line with trust policy, all newly qualified social workers will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding. All NQSWs are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be agreed to extend this for a further 2 years.

On successful completion of the ASYE, for which you will be given full support of an experienced Social Worker as well as Divisional Social Work Lead, and peer support from other ASYE candidates, you will then be eligible to progress to a Band 6 position.

If you are a nurse under preceptorship programme you will receive support from a nurse-mentor to help you with completion of the preceptorship and you will then be eligible to progress to Band 6 position.

If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful completion.

Main duties of the job

We are a multidisciplinary team consisting of a talented pool of both registered and non-registered mental health professionals.

We have moved away from the use of care programme approach (CPA) and now work with service users and carers under the "your team, your conversation, you plan approach", which is a strength based, intervention lead model of care, that supports the individual to address their own identified needs.

Applicants will need to demonstrate knowledge in the areas of the delivery of mental health interventions in the community, with particular reference to the needs of Older People, together with an understanding of both the PWP and Care Management processes.

You will be required to provide key worker interventions 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 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.

Job responsibilities

1. To undertake 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. This will include:
   • The use of standardized assessment tools.
   • History, strengths and aspirations.
   • Mental state.
   • Impact of culture and diversity.
   • Functional needs.
   • The needs of family and carer.
   • Evaluation of risk.
   • Physical health.
   • Complicating factors.
   • The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
   • Safeguarding and public protection.
   • Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act.
2. To be responsible for developing delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programs using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence‑based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.
3. To act as key worker for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
4. To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process, in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who may be on other caseloads. This might include:
   • Individual or group therapeutic intervention.
   • Psychosocial interventions.
   • Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.
   • Medication management.
   • Interventions under the Mental Health Act.
5. To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the 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 throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, Local Authority Swindon Borough Council, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.
7. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc., involving other agencies such as primary care etc. where appropriate.
8. To personally build and lead others to build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge 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, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising 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, including working with others in the planning development and review of protection plans, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.
11. Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which may be required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.
12. Personally and leading others to collaboratively and sensitively work 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 experiences and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.
13. Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the colleagues as required.
14. To maintain the health and clinical records, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.
15. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.
16. To participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.
17. 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.
18. Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of and providing, effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal.
19. Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.
20. Develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of available feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify appropriate areas of development for this work role, taking responsibility for accessing identified learning and training opportunities.
21. Lead, maintain and participate in practices which enable effective team working.
22. To participate in on call rota as required.
23. To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.

Person Specification

• Diploma / Degree and registration with the NMC or SWE
• Post‑registration experience gained working in front‑line mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering interventions (minimum 6 months post registration experience)
• Good understanding of recovery principles and the role of secondary mental health services.
• Able to articulate a sound understanding of the relevant legal frameworks/legislation including PWP process, Mental Health Act , Mental Capacity Act, and Safeguarding
• Demonstrates significant experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies
• Ability to deliver or evidence of ability to work towards delivering a range of therapeutic interventions.
• UK driving licence holder with access to a car.
• Actual or previous experience of working in community setting within Older Adults.
• Experience in medication management and clinical interventions
• Experience of physical health and comorbidities

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.

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