Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Devizes

Job overview

A new role has become available within NEW CMHT. We are a friendly supportive team who are passionate about improving the lives of service users with complex mental health needs. We are a forward-thinking service and for many years have implemented a new way of working with service users with emotionally unstable/borderline personality disorders. This is an evidence-based model of care called Structured Clinical Management. Successful applicants will be offered a three-day training package on how to deliver this model along with specialized individual and group supervision. As a key worker in the team, you will be responsible for a caseload of service users with a range of complex mental health needs, working within the Your Team Your Conversation Your Plan framework to deliver a range of health and social care interventions. 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.

Main duties of the job

If you have an interest working therapeutically with service users with serious mental illness and within our non-psychotic pathway, this is the job for you. The NEW CMHT is proud to work in a recovery focused and trauma informed way. Offering support and educating service users in practical and theoretical ways to manage distress that their symptoms may bring them. Within the non-psychotic pathway we are in a fortunate position to be able to offer training in Structured Clinical Management. The successful applicant will be keyworker for a complex caseload of service users within the Non-psychotic pathway. The role will involve providing therapeutic interventions yourself and also linking in with other professionals to co-ordinate their interventions, this will all be done within the your team, your conversation, your plan (YTCP) framework.

• Keyworker for a complex caseload of service users.
• Leading the YTCP process.
• Multi-agency working.
• Risk management working.
• Fulfilling the CMHT duty worker role on a rolling rota.

Working for our organisation

We are [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]) 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 [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] 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 [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] 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 [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], as diversity makes us stronger.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment and interventions for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings.
• To be responsible for developing, delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes 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.
• To act as keyworker for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
• To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process, in line with personal wellbeing plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads. This might include: a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention. b. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions. c. Psychosocial interventions. d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies. e. Medication management. f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act.
• 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.
• 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, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.
• 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.
• Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which maybe required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.
• 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.
• Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.
• 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.
• Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.
• To participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.
• This post is open to newly qualified social workers. 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 have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Registered Mental Nurse, Social Worker or OT
• A minimum of 1 years post registration mental health nursing experience, one of which will have been at F grade or above.
• Full, current driving license
• Is able to deliver from a range of possible key therapeutic interventions CBT, Psychosocial interventions, Family Interventions, DBT approaches.
• Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience working in a community mental health team.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.