Job Description

An exciting new role has become available within NEW CMHT.



We are a friendly supportive team who are passionate about improving the lives of service users with complex mental health needs. We are a forward thinking service and for many years have implemented a new way of working with service users with emotionally unstable/borderline personality disorders. This is an evidence based model of care called Structured Clinical Management. Successful applicants will be offered a three day training package on how to deliver this model along with specialised individual and group supervision. As a care co-ordinator in the team you will be responsible for a caseload of service users with a range of complex mental health needs, working within the CPA framework to deliver a range of mental health interventions. You can expect to receive excellent supervision, and there will be opportunities for career development and training in order to support you in this role.



This is an exciting opportunity for clinicians to work in a focused way developing skills for an identified group of individuals on a non-psychotic pathway improving the outcomes and experience for our service users and their carers.



The successful applicant will be responsible for the care co-ordination of a complex caseload of service users on the non-psychotic pathway.



The role will involve providing therapeutic interventions and also linking in with other professionals to co-ordinate their interventions.

Main responsibilities:

Delivering interventions to a complex caseload of service users with complex emotional needs.



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.



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.



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.

This will include:

The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation. Support Tool (CAST), KGV.



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.



The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.

Social care needs.

Safeguarding and public protection.

Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act.



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 provide interventions 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 wellbeing plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads.

This might include:

a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention.

b. Psychological treatments such as SCM, DBT approaches, family interventions.

c. Psychosocial interventions.

d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.

e. Medication management.

f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act.



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 personally build and lead others to build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal wellbeing plans.



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 maybe 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 wellbeing 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.



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.



Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of and providing, effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal.



Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.



Develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of available feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify appropriate areas of development for this work role, taking responsibility for accessing identified learning and training opportunities.



Participate in practices which enable effective team working, attending team meetings and governance meetings.



To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.