# Band 5 Recovery Practitioner - Speedwell > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust Partnership NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-5-recovery-practitioner-speedwell/77ff9d8b-4ce6-403e-8bf6-07e7e9b9f251 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-5-recovery-practitioner-speedwell/77ff9d8b-4ce6-403e-8bf6-07e7e9b9f251.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust Partnership NHS Trust - **Location:** Bath NHS House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Practitioner - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32073.00 to £39043.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-14T10:44:40.929Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8305866 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8305866?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.awp.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are inviting applications from registered nurses, social workers or occupational therapists to join the Central & East Assessment & Recovery Team based in Speedwell, Bristol. We are a welcoming and supportive team with a consistent, established leadership team, that prioritises the wellbeing of staff to enable the delivery of high quality care and treatment. We are a multidisciplinary Recovery Team which covers Central and East Bristol. As a keyworker you will hold a diverse and complex caseload and deliver recovery focused interventions ### Main duties of the job The post holder will focus on high quality assessment of service users and delivery of focused recovery based interventions. You will be required to contribute towards the planning, implementation and review of care alongside a multi-disciplinary team. Applicants will have a commitment to working with service users creatively towards their identified recovery goals and to promote choice and self-management. All Recovery Practitioners may at times be required to undertake both assessment and key working dependant on the needs of the team. 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. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health service. 2. To undertake the delivery of Personalised Care and Support Planning in line with the Your Team your Conversation-Your Plan” Policy and guidance. - To work to the Principles of your team-your conversation-your plan:- Coproduced, Collaborative. Focused on Human Rights and Equalities. Transparent and positive approach to working with risk. Proportionate. Trauma informed. - To provide care and support in line with the three quality pillars:- Building relationships with people. Spending time reflecting on what might be helpful. Communicating well with all people involved, friends, family and carers. - Your Team – to facilitate a “team around the person” approach; working collaboratively with people’s social networks and with a range of agencies. - Your Conversation – to have regular personalised support conversations with people you are working with. To take dialog outcome measures within the conversations and to use these strength based conversations to co-create advance plans to keep people well and safe in the future. - Your Plan – to use Support Conversations to co-create and refresh the Personal Wellbeing Plan. 3. To record risk incidents and to collaboratively create and update Safety Assessments and Safety Plans 4. To provide personalised interventions to support people with Mental Health difficulties. 5. To sometimes act as a Keyworker for people to whom you are delivering interventions. A keyworker is someone who is the key point of contact for people and their families and other teams and services. Although it is everyone’s responsibility, Keyworkers take a lead role in making sure that everyone who is working with the person understands the plan and is working together as a team. Keyworkers take a lead responsibility for having Support Conversations and making sure that the Personal Wellbeing Plan makes sense. 6. To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, non-profession specific specialist therapeutic interventions. This might include: - Individual or group therapeutic intervention. - Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches , family interventions - Psychosocial interventions - Motivational and coping enhancement strategies. - Medication management (supporting medication concordance using occupational solutions and assistive technology) Please see the attached job description for your respective registrations. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications, skills, experience **Essential** - Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, OT, Social Worker - Current relevant registration with the NMC/HCPC/SW England and commitment to CPD. - Able to manage a complex caseload, undertake frontline assessment, assess and manage risks - Demonstrates a developed understanding of the recovery principles and the role of Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Experience of community mental health work **Desirable** - Relevant post-registration qualifications, such as DBT, Non Medical Prescribing, CBT - Experience of supervising junior staff and trainees ## Documents - [b5 community ot (pdf, 619.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10625985) - [b5 community social worker (pdf, 614.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10625984) - [financial support & discounts (pdf, 919.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2794) - [value of the nhs pension scheme (pdf, 279.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2795) - [b5 community mental health nurse (pdf, 622.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10625983) - [inclusive top 50 uk employers list (pdf, 78.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2439) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.