Band 6 Specialist Practitioner BSW 111 Urgent Care Service - Devizes

An exciting opportunity has arisen for B6 registered mental health clinicians to join our team of Banes, Swindon & Wiltshire Urgent Care practitioners. Applications are welcome from RMNs, SWs & OTs. You will work collaboratively with a range of internal and external teams and agencies to support and enhance current mental health urgent care service provision across the BSW system. You will inspire and support others to deliver a high quality and effective urgent care intensive service for service users and carers. Working in partnership with the team manager and senior practitioners, the post holder will ensure excellent clinical standards and effective workload management; this will be underpinned by robust and effective supervision processes. The role is primarily focussed on signposting, triaging and, and providing support to NHS 111 callers with a wide spectrum of mental health presentations advising on next steps and referring for further care when appropriate. The role will
necessitate working weekends and evenings within rotational shift patterns. The service operates 24/7 to people who call NHS 111-2 with a MH crisis. The night shift also take calls from people who require support from local teams, after operational hours. The majority of the role will include supervision of the B4s, undertaking telephone based triage, & making onward referrals to services when clinically indicated.

Main duties of the job

Work across a 24/7 shift pattern to support the service.

Ensuring the needs of service users and carers are at the heart of service delivery.

Working alongside Band 4 Recovery Coordinators providing supervision and guidance and escalation calls that require specialist input.

Interface with other AWP Access Services.

Liaison with internal, and external professionals ie. police, paramedics, GPs, AWP teams.

Able to challenge clinical practice effectively to ensure that service users receive the most appropriate support in their recovery journey.

To work collaboratively with a range of professionals and statutory agencies with their own at times competing agency demands.

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.