[ref. a29208617] Band 6 Specialist ROSE Practitioner - South Gloucestershire - Bristol

Job overview

The South Gloucestershire Recovery, Outreach, Support & Engagement Team (ROSE) have an opportunity for a Band 6 Specialist ROSE Practitioner, Key Worker.

The successful applicant would be embedded within the South Gloucestershire Recovery Team, working across two sites - Kingswood Civic Centre (Kingswood) and The Elms (Thornbury). The ROSE team is a psychologically informed service, and you will be working closely with some of the most complex group of service users who are hard to engage/reach, with high hospital admissions.

The aim of the ROSE team is to improve the quality of service users lives proactively, using creative and flexible interventions which will be reflected in a caseload capped at 15 (pro rata based on hours worked). You will be working within a friendly and supportive establish team.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will meet with service users, using the delivery of assertive engagement principles and assuring enhanced engagement focused interventions with a whole team approach led by a Senior Practitioner. You will have access to a Clinical Psychologist and Consultant Psychiatrists to support you to develop recovery focussed care and risk management plans.

The service provides support to individuals suffering with serious mental illnesses to deliver enhanced focused engagement and interventions to improved people’s social functioning. You will have regular supervision, and work alongside Nurses, Occupational Therapists, and Social Workers.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings.

To be responsible for developing delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence–based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.

To act as care coordinator for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.

To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process, in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads.

To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers‘ ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.

To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.

In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.

To be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.

To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, including working with others in the planning development and review of protection plans, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which may be required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.

Personally and leading others to collaboratively and sensitively work with individuals, with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experiences and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.

Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.

To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.

Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

To participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.

To provide mentoring/training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care. Specifically this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students, participating in their learning objectives and assessments

Person specification

Professional Registration

• Must hold a Professional registration
• Must hold a valid driver’s license & have access to your own transport

• Substantial experience in adult mental health
• Ability to work flexibly throughout the working week

Interventions

• Ability to be able to deliver a range of therapeutic interventions

• Relevant post registration qualifications eg CBT NMP AMHP

Communication skills

• Highly developed written communication skills
• Electronic record keeping
• Communicating ideas to others clearly
• Respecting other points of view and speaking in a public setting

• A friendly and confident demeanour

Experience

• Experience in Recovery and/or assertive outreach approach/ transferrable skills

• Experience in a wide variety of settings
• Supervising others, students and staff

This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.

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