Band 6 Specialist Practitioner - Bath

No Night Shift Working Required.

Are you interested in working with people in mental health crisis? We are a crisis home treatment team looking for a new Band 6 qualified in mental health nursing, occupational therapy, social work or clinical associate psychology to join our team. If you are a Band 5 ready to make the step in your development, then we would love to hear from you too.

The access teams (and all the BANES teams) are very compassionate, and there will be many staff across the teams who would support you along your journey in your new role. As we work towards a home treatment model, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team including well established roles such as clinical associate psychologists. This range of scope allows for great interprofessional learning and training.

We really value our workforce. BANES Intensive is a great place to work within a team environment that is currently developing its intervention offer. This allows you to develop excellent clinical assessment, intervention and leadership skills which you might not get from other roles. The intensive team in BANES has nurtured many clinicians with personalised training options—from a clinical and leadership perspective. Many of these clinicians have gone on to achieve promotions in the locality, which has opened up roles within the team.

Key Result Areas

In a wide range of situations and locations to undertake the full range of activities required to deliver comprehensive mental health assessment, in an emergency for service users, who may be distressed and in crisis.

This Will Include

The use of standardised assessment tools.

Recovery Star.

History, strengths and aspirations.

Mental state.

Impact of culture and diversity.

Functional needs.

The needs of family and carer.

Evaluation of risk.

Physical health.

Complicating factors.

Identifying and ensuring specialist involvement where required.

The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.

Social Care.

Safeguarding and public protection.

Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act .

There will be a comprehensive induction to the role and a supported period of supernumerary to aid with transition.

BANES IS are able to provide flexible working opportunities to successful candidates, promoting a positive and enriching work/life balance.<

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The service runs 08:00–22:00, 7 days a week. This role includes a pattern of shift working, which does include some 9–5 shifts, evenings, weekend and bank holiday working.

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Anna Piercy Job title: Team Manager Email address: anna.piercy@nhs.net Telephone number: 01225 362814