Job Description

The South Glos. Recovery Team North are looking for a Specialist Recovery nurse Practitioner to join our supportive and friendly team. The team is based in Thornbury with a geographical area covering South Glos. area, including Yate, Patchway and other suburban areas. This is a wide geographical area with limited access to public transport.



The post offers the opportunity to develop your skills with new training in Structured Clinical Management (SCM) with a supervision program in place to support staff.



The role entails Key Workers holding a caseload of service users under secondary mental health services and the coordination and delivery of evidenced based interventions. This includes commissioning packages under the care act.



We would welcome applications from qualified nurses with experience of working with people with acute and enduring mental health needs. We are keen to appoint nurses to the team to share their specific skills and expertise. If you are looking to further your community experience, we would love to hear from you.



We will consider recently qualified nurses who have completed their preceptorship.

Your main duties will include:

key working a varied caseload including a range of presentations and diagnoses



key working service users throughout their recovery including stepping up and down care when needed



cover duty and duty nurse responsibilities



working as an intervention based service identifying service user need and how they can meet their goals



support the running of the clinic and medication management



working closely with other services including social worker colleagues, the intensive support team (IST), psychological therapy service (PTS) and the primary care liaison team (PCLS)



contribute your expertise within the MDT



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



To act as key worker 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.

This might include:

a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention.

b. Psychological treatments such as CBT, 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 recovery 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 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 person's 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.