Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 7 FIND Senior Practitioner - Bristol
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Job Description
This post is open to someone with appropriate professional registration and with substantial experience working in forensic settings with adults with learning disabilities and/or Autism to join the FIND Team within AWP Secure Services.
The post-holder will work closely with the Team Manager and Senior Practitioners to ensure that excellent professional nursing standards are consistently upheld across the team.
About the Role
The Forensic Intellectual, Neuropsychiatric & Developmental Disorders (FIND) team sits within AWP Secure Services at Fromeside Hospital, and includes providing consultation to other services, completing access assessments where someone may require admission to secure, and providing CCO to those discharged from Secure up to 12 months post discharge.
Effective caseload management and clinical supervision will be supported by robust and efficient individual and team supervision processes, all within the overarching framework of Personal Wellbeing Plans, and maintaining CPA standards of which have been set nationally for Secure services.
The post-holder will play a key role in leading the FIND Team to deliver a high-quality, safe and effective service for service users and carers. Working in close partnership with inpatient Secure Services, they will ensure that excellent professional nursing standards are consistently upheld across the team.
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Given the team’s wide geographical footprint, the post-holder will be responsible for developing and sustaining strong, collaborative working relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Clinical Leadership — Motivating, guiding and supporting staff to deliver high-quality care, ensuring effective communication and modelling best practice
- Caseload Management — Holding an appropriately sized caseload of complex service users, providing clinical supervision to B6s within team
- Quality and Standards — Ensuring compliance with professional, legal and Trust and National standards
About Us
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all-round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
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Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million people.
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 Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Emma Lovell
- Job title: Head of Community Forensic and Social Work
- Email address: emma.lovell@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07818094968
For further information and/or to discuss this role please make contact with Emma Lovell
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