Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Bristol

Job overview

The South Glos. Recovery Team North is 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 the 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 programme 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 evidence‑based interventions. This includes commissioning packages under the Care Act.

Main duties of the job

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
• Covering duty and duty nurse responsibilities
• Working as an intervention‑based service, identifying service user needs and how they can meet their goals
• Supporting 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)
• Contributing your expertise within the MDT

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Result Areas

• To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing, comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings. This will include: a. The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV b. Recovery Star c. History, strengths and aspirations d. Mental state e. Impact of culture and diversity f. Functional needs g. The needs of family and carer h. Evaluation of risk i. Physical health j. Complicating factors k. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change l. Social care needs m. Safeguarding and public protection n. Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act
• To be responsible for developing, delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence‑based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.
• To act as care coordinator for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers’ caseloads.

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities