Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 5 Specialist Practitioner (MHWP) - Bath
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The BANES Early Intervention Team
The BANES Early Intervention Team have an opportunity for a band 5 Mental Health wellbeing practitioner to join the team.
As part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will be key worker to service users who are experiencing first episode psychosis. In addition, you will also deliver brief, goal-focused interventions to selected service users.
You will work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment. You will support service users to engage in the Early Intervention model including CBTp, psychoeducation, physical health monitoring, IPS, pharmacology, service user focused community groups and family intervention.
You will need to be passionate and motivated to work with this specific service group and be flexible and committed to engaging in an assertive outreach approach.
Responsibilities
- To jointly assess new referrals to the team for possible psychosis.
- To contribute to the development of service user formulation.
- To work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.
- To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users.
- To work with carers and families in line with the service user’s wishes and to co facilitate family intervention.
- To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.
- To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and care plans of service users in a skilled and sensitive manner in order to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients.
- To develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention.
- To adhere and support the teams Key Performance areas and targets and targets.
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About Us
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.
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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.
Contact Us
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Bernie Crowley
Job title: Team Manager
Email address: Bernie.crowley@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01225362760
If you would like to contact Bernie Crowley for more information about the position, then please email or call the contact details. You are also welcome to visit the team if you wish.
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