Band 5 CPN / Specialist Mental Health Practitioner - Bristol

Main duties include:

To contribute to the planning, delivery and review of treatment and care.

To act as a key worker for identified service users for whom you are delivering defined, evidence based therapeutic interventions.

To provide support to carers and enable them in their relationship with the service user.

In collaboration with service users and carers, to carry out safety assessments and develop safety plans.

To provide mentoring/training to students and unregistered colleagues.

To support practices which foster effective team work.

This post is open to newly qualified social workers. In line with AWP trust policy all newly qualified social workers (NQSW) will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding. All NQSW's are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be extended for a further 2 years.

Are you passionate about working with service users in Later Life? If so, we have an interesting opportunity to work with our skilled, experienced and supportive multi-disciplinary team as a Band 5 CPN/Mental Health Practitioner. The team provides complex interventions for older people who have severe mental health problems, both functional and organic.

You will be working collaboratively with service users and carers to provide a range of service including evidence-based psycho-social interventions and medication management.

You will need excellent communication skills and be flexible and resourceful in your approach. You will need to demonstrated your ability and commitment to team working and a genuine interest in achieving wellbeing and positive health outcomes for older adults.

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.