Band 6 Specialist Practitioner - Urgent Care BSW 111

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and forward-thinking mental health clinician to join our established team of practitioners. Applications are welcome from registered Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers and Occupational Therapists.

You will be based within and work collaboratively with Medvivo staff at their base in Chippenham and enable NHS 111 callers to receive an appropriate mental health service where indicated.

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 assessing 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 within a rotational shift pattern to cover 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Main duties of the job

At present we operate 7 days a week 16.00 to 00.00 and from 09:00 to 00.00 weekends and bank holidays. As a service we are moving into the next phase to providing a core 24/7 mental health service as part of the major national implementation programme and introducing additional shifts to cover 24 hours/day, 7 days/week.

The role will include: Completing telephone mental health triages and providing advice and guidance to callers to NHS 111.Undertaking telephone based assessments and making onward referrals to services when clinically indicated.Working in collaboration with AWP BSW services such as Intensive Teams, Acute Hospital Liaison, Care Home Liaison, Police Control Room Triage and Health Based Place of Safety.Provide advice and guidance to Medvivo clinicians and other statutory and commissioned services.

AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) are 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 (BANES), 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.

Medvivo has an excellent reputation for providing round the clock health and care services that are rated highly by their patients and services users. Their commitment to delivering outstanding care was recognized by the CQC who rated their services as "Outstanding."

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.