Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Bristol

About the Role

We are looking for a substantive Band 6 registered professional Mental Health professional to be part of the Learning Disability Service in Sirona. The post holder will be employed by AWP and receive management supervision within AWP but be on an honorary contract for Sirona and fully embedded into the Sirona service.

Your role will involve CPA co-ordination, holding a caseload of clients who may have complex presentations, providing consultation and mental health advice to members of the wider Community Learning Disability Team and mainstream services.

You will work mainly across the Bristol area and will work with service users in a variety of settings. Some travel to further locations may be required to attend CPA / CTR meetings and support the timely discharge of service users in out of area hospital placements in accordance with the Transforming Care agenda.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand how mental illness in people with Learning Disabilities may be different from a mainstream presentation.
• Implement “reasonable adjustments” in the assessment, planning and delivery of mental health care.
• Liaise with mainstream inpatient services about the unique challenges someone with a Learning Disability might face in hospital.
• Support service users where possible to access mainstream services and provide advice and consultation to these services.
• Work closely with Consultant psychiatrists to monitor the effects of psychotropic medication.
• Work in a collaborative, pro-active and preventative way to reduce the need for admission to hospital and deliver interventions to promote recovery and wellness.
• Be one of three nursing practitioners who support the needs of people with Learning Disabilities who have additional mental health needs.