Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Salisbury

Are you dynamic, motivated, and passionate about community-based care? If you can answer yes to these questions, then we want you to apply for our Band 6 post in Sarum CMHT. We have redesigned a model of care based on identified pathways. We are looking for clinicians who are skilled and have an interest in training to deliver interventions to service users in our psychotic and non-psychotic pathways. This post is open to newly qualified social workers.

In line with AWP trust policy, all newly qualified social workers (NQSW) will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding. All NQSWs are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be extended for a further 2 years. If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role, this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful ASYE completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 post, you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy upon successful ASYE completion.

We currently have vacancies that will enhance our current structure, whether you have an interest in working with service users with serious mental illness in our psychotic pathway or have a more therapy-based desire working with service users within our non-psychotic pathway. In both pathways, we are proud to work in a recovery-focused and trauma-informed way, offering support and educating service users in practical and theoretical ways to manage distress that their symptoms may bring them.

Within the non-psychotic pathway, we are in a fortunate position to be able to offer training in Structured Clinical Management. The Psychotic pathway has an established clinic, where we are able to oversee medication compliance and management. This is particularly exciting for those who would like to work in the community but also enjoy clinical nursing skills.

The successful applicant will be keyworker for a complex caseload of service users within their appointed pathway. The role will involve providing therapeutic interventions yourself and also linking in with other professionals to co-ordinate their interventions, all of this will be done within your team, your conversation, your plan (YTCP) framework.

• Keyworker for a complex caseload of service users.
• Leading the YTCP process.
• Multi-agency working.
• Risk management working.
• Administration of medications.
• Fulfilling the CMHT duty worker role on a rolling rota.

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.

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. 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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Hale, Job title: Interim Team Manager, Email address: sarah.hale8@nhs.net, Telephone number: 01722820250.