Band 6 Community MH Practitioner - Petherton Resource Centre

This role involves providing evidenced based treatment to patients in the community who are experiencing serious mental illness or disorder. Most of this will be individual work with patients (and their carers) although there are opportunities to take part in therapeutic group work or joint work with other professions.

We usually recruit staff with previous community mental health experience, but we are happy to consider staff whose career so far has been ward based. Enthusiasm and a desire to help people live their best lives are the key qualities we are looking for, and we are used to providing comprehensive supervision and support to our staff.

We strongly encourage personal and professional development - and once you are established within the team, there would be opportunities to undertake MBT, DBT, SCM training, Understanding psychosis and bipolar training, and Motivational Interview training.

If you are interested in joining the team and are keen to progress in your development, please do get in touch - we really encourage you to contact us for an informal chat, visit and/or a shadow shift with us - and submit an application form!

Main duties of the job

This role is focussed 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.

The role will require for you to assist service users with meeting their daily health, social care and well being needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.

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

Always under the overarching framework of CPA, the post holder will be responsible for the ongoing assessment, planning delivery and review of activities and interventions against identified health, social care and well being needs, acting as care coordinator for a defined group of service users.

You will be required to undertake tasks such as delivering specific health or social care assessments and interventions, according to care clusters,including identified service users on other caseloads. This maybe either on a one to one basis, or as part of a group activity.

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.