Band 7 AWP Sequoia Senior Practitioner (MBT) - Bristol

The band 7 MBT Practitioner has two main areas of focus.

Firstly you are a senior practitioner in the service, helping to identify the right people for the service to support, helping service users who need additional level of assessment, supporting other staff with complex decisions and supervising staff. You will be involved in other interventions and other parts of the service outside just MBT. You will be helping with the design and implementation of the service. You will also support the day to running of a service with a large primary care caseload. Sequoia do not care coordinate but do act as key workers. You will also be involved in training to wider networks and get involved in projects within the team. Within the team we have leads/champions for certain groups of people e.g. perinatal or older adults.

Secondly overseeing MBT informed interventions in a group setting. In terms of MBT you will oversee the triage referrals, support conversations (assessments) and post-group reviews. You will keep an overview of the MBT offer and alongside the clinical lead. You will use a test and learn approach to improve it. You will be involved with the data collection and analysis from the group. You will be the go to person in the service for MBT in terms of supporting other staff and training people from other services. There will be ongoing specialist MBT supervision for you to help guide the development of the MBT part of the service.

We are looking for someone who is an MBT practitioner or has completed the training and is working towards practitioner status. We will consider those who have completed the basic training and are booked on to and about to complete the practitioner training. We also have the budget to train people further. We will build in time within your job to join an established MBT service and deliver full programme MBT. Across the team we have good supervision structures. We pride ourselves on being inclusive both in our team and for the people we serve. We think it is exciting to work in a newly developing service that is based on a test and learn approach. We aim to deliver well organised services, so alongside your other skills we highly value people who are organised and have good attention to detail.

Sequoia is a brand new AWP service - please see the service summary attached to the job advert

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.