Band 6 Recovery Practitioner - Bath

A new role has become available within The BaNES Recovery Team.

We are a friendly and supportive team who are passionate about improving the lives of service users with complex mental health needs. As a care co-ordinator in the team you will be responsible for a caseload of service users with a range of complex mental health needs, working within the CPA framework to deliver a range of health and social care interventions.

We strongly encourage personal and professional development - and once you are established within the team, there would be opportunities to undertake training to support you within the role, for example, SCM, DBT, MBT, understanding psychosis and family interventions.

We are looking for any profession with a registration to apply, including Social Work, Clinical Associates in Psychology, Occupational Therapists and Registered Mental Health Nurses.

We don't tend to have many opportunities arise in our service anymore, which speaks volumes about our team, our work ethic, passion and support for one another. From a management perspective, we value your wellbeing and are committed to helping you help others., Provide a Mental Health service to an allocated caseload of Service Users, and deliver a set of defined interventions within that caseload, having responsibility for the assessment of needs, the planning and implementation of treatment and care to meet those needs as agreed with multidisciplinary team and/or supervisor, coordinating care (with supervision) for particular Service Users, and contributing to the evaluation of care across a variety of settings where Mental Health or Specialist Treatment is available.

Liaise as appropriate with other members of the multidisciplinary team and other agencies involved in the care of individual service users.

Participate in Integrated Governance processes, particularly as they relate to own practice, contributing to the monitoring of service provision and performance, and standards of care, through data collection and audit processes.

Liaise with other services and agencies involved in provision of services to people with Mental Health and other vulnerabilities.

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.