Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Salisbury

Job overview

Are you Dynamic? Motivated? Passionate about community based care?

If you can answer yes to these questions then we want you to apply for our band 6 post in Sarum CMHT.  We have redesigned a model of care based on identified pathways. We are looking for clinicians who are skilled and have an interest in training to deliver interventions to service users in our psychotic and non-psychotic pathways.

This post is open to newly qualified social workers. In line with AWP trust policy all newly qualified social workers (NQSW) will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding.  All NQSW’s are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be extended for a further 2 years.

If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful ASYE completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 post you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy upon successful ASYE completion.

Main duties of the job

We currently have vacancies that will enhance our current structure, whether you have an interest working with service users with serious mental illness in our psychotic pathway or have a more therapy based desire working with service users within our non-psychotic pathway.

In both pathways we are proud to work in a recovery focused and trauma informed way. Offering support and educating service users in practical and theoretical ways to manage distress that their symptoms may bring them.

Within the non-psychotic pathway we are in a fortunate position to be able to offer training in Structured Clinical Management.

The Psychotic pathway have an established clinic, where we are able to oversee medication compliance and management. This is particularly exciting for those who would like to work in community but also enjoy clinical nursing skills.

The successful applicant will be keyworker for a complex caseload of service users within their appointed pathway.

The role will involve providing therapeutic interventions yourself and also linking in with other professionals to co-ordinate their interventions, this will all be done within the your team, your conversation, your plan (YTCP) framework.

Main responsibilities

Keyworker for a complex caseload of service users .

Leading the YTCP process.

Multi-agency working.

Risk management working.

Administration of medications.

Fulfilling the CMHT duty worker role on a rolling rota.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

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 keyworker for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.

To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process ,in line with personal wellbeing plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads.

This might include:  a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention  b. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches , family interventions  c. Psychosocial interventions  d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.  e. Medication management  f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act,

To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers‘ ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.

To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.

In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.

To personally build and lead others to build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.

To be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.

To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, including working with others in the planning development and review of protection plans, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which maybe required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.

Personally and leading others to collaboratively and sensitively work with individuals, with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experiences and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.

Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.

To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.

Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

To participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.