Job summary
Join a team with a bold mission at Swindon and Gloucestershire Mind, we are dedicated to reshaping the landscape of mental health and emotional wellbeing in our community. The Recovery Practitioner will play a vital frontline role in providing essential support to individuals recently discharged from the Swindon Recovery Team at Avon & Wiltshire Partnership NHS Trust.
Main duties of the job
Innovation and Empowerment: Channel your passion into providing evidence-based interventions, elevating the mental health and emotional well-being of the people we serve.
Effective Partnerships:Ensure effective and appropriate communication with all individuals, staff, community agencies and partner organisations
Expertise and Risk Management:Effectively manage risk and supporting positive risk taking.Conduct investigations in line with relevant policies
- KPIs and Data Excellence:To effectively record and evidence outcomes.
About us
Swindon and Gloucestershire Mindprovide advice and support to empower anyone in our local communities experiencing a mental health problem. We campaign to improve services, raise awareness, and promote understanding.
Our Vision:We will not give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets both support and respect. Swindon and Gloucestershire Mind creates services where people are recognised, valued and supported.
You are joining a committed and skilled team and you will be working alongside people who are passionate about mental health care and support.
Our Values:
- Selflessness: We will act in the best interests of the people we support.
- Integrity: We will be principled in our work.
- Objectivity: We will act and take decisions impartially and fairly, without discrimination or bias.
- Accountability: We will take responsibility for what we do and how we do it.
- Openness: We will work and take decisions in an open and transparent manner.
- Honesty: We will be truthful and reliable.
- Leadership: We will model Swindon & Gloucestershire Minds values and lead by example in demonstrating organisational behaviours.
Swindon & Gloucestershire Mind is committed to promoting equality, diversity and we ensure that we are an inclusive organisation, where diversity is valued, respected, and built upon. We are committed to compliance with relevant equality legislation, the Equality Act 2010, Codes of Practice, and relevant best practice guidance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
-
To support the delivery of the outreach service in relation to Wellbeing
Stepdown service for people who are being discharged from adult secondary
mental health services
-
To
work closely with care coordinators and other professionals within the NHS
Swindon Recovery team, supporting people who have been referred to the Steps
Programme.
-
To
attend weekly meetings with the NHS Swindon Recovery team to discuss referrals
into the service.
-
To
attend handover meetings involving care coordinators and individuals who have
been referred to the Steps Programme.
-
Deliver
outreach appointments in accordance with STEPS programme timelines
-
Collaborate
with individuals on the STEPS Programme to co-create a personalised support
plan, centred around their strengths, needs, and self-identified priorities
-
Assist
individuals in identifying alternative strategies within their STEPS plan when
challenges arise with existing actions
-
Provide
guidance and encouragement to help individuals overcome barriers and explore
practical alternatives
-
Offer
Step Down appointments, including community-based outreach, for up to 12 months
per person
-
Arrange
one-to-one wellbeing appointments for individuals referred for wellbeing
support
-
Deliver
monthly wellbeing support for up to 12 months, with the aim of completing a
wellbeing plan and providing follow-up reviews to ensure individuals feel
confident progressing in their mental health journey.
-
Support
individuals in creating wellbeing plans aligned with the Five Ways to Wellbeing
framework
-
Foster
personal resilience by helping individuals develop and sustain their own
recovery plans
-
Identify early opportunities for individuals who wish to gain or
retain employment and provide appropriate support
-
Contribute
to wider organisational initiatives and undertake additional duties as required
by Swindon & Gloucestershire Mind.
-
To
coordinate and attend ward rounds at the hospitals to promote services offered
by Swindon and Gloucestershire Mind.
-
To
link in with Swindon secondary mental health services to promote Swindon and Gloucestershire
Mind services and referral pathways e.g. Early Intervention Team.
-
To encourage individuals to become Experts By Lived Experience
to help shape the services we provide to meet the needs of people leaving secondary
mental health services.
-
To effectively record and evidence outcomes achieved by people.
-
To meet a number of wellbeing plans set as monthly targets by
manager.
-
To meet a number of reviews set as monthly targets by manager.
-
To use Views database system or an alternative data software
(as appropriate) to capture, track and monitor performance.To
provide timely reporting and monitoring for the service manager, reporting
to stakeholders and commissioners
Job description
Job responsibilities
-
To support the delivery of the outreach service in relation to Wellbeing
Stepdown service for people who are being discharged from adult secondary
mental health services
-
To
work closely with care coordinators and other professionals within the NHS
Swindon Recovery team, supporting people who have been referred to the Steps
Programme.
-
To
attend weekly meetings with the NHS Swindon Recovery team to discuss referrals
into the service.
-
To
attend handover meetings involving care coordinators and individuals who have
been referred to the Steps Programme.
-
Deliver
outreach appointments in accordance with STEPS programme timelines
-
Collaborate
with individuals on the STEPS Programme to co-create a personalised support
plan, centred around their strengths, needs, and self-identified priorities
-
Assist
individuals in identifying alternative strategies within their STEPS plan when
challenges arise with existing actions
-
Provide
guidance and encouragement to help individuals overcome barriers and explore
practical alternatives
-
Offer
Step Down appointments, including community-based outreach, for up to 12 months
per person
-
Arrange
one-to-one wellbeing appointments for individuals referred for wellbeing
support
-
Deliver
monthly wellbeing support for up to 12 months, with the aim of completing a
wellbeing plan and providing follow-up reviews to ensure individuals feel
confident progressing in their mental health journey.
-
Support
individuals in creating wellbeing plans aligned with the Five Ways to Wellbeing
framework
-
Foster
personal resilience by helping individuals develop and sustain their own
recovery plans
-
Identify early opportunities for individuals who wish to gain or
retain employment and provide appropriate support
-
Contribute
to wider organisational initiatives and undertake additional duties as required
by Swindon & Gloucestershire Mind.
-
To
coordinate and attend ward rounds at the hospitals to promote services offered
by Swindon and Gloucestershire Mind.
-
To
link in with Swindon secondary mental health services to promote Swindon and Gloucestershire
Mind services and referral pathways e.g. Early Intervention Team.
-
To encourage individuals to become Experts By Lived Experience
to help shape the services we provide to meet the needs of people leaving secondary
mental health services.
-
To effectively record and evidence outcomes achieved by people.
-
To meet a number of wellbeing plans set as monthly targets by
manager.
-
To meet a number of reviews set as monthly targets by manager.
-
To use Views database system or an alternative data software
(as appropriate) to capture, track and monitor performance.To
provide timely reporting and monitoring for the service manager, reporting
to stakeholders and commissioners
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working in any health, social care, or any related voluntary organisation setting. An understanding and working knowledge of various mental health conditions. An understanding of a range of skills and interventions linked to wellbeing and recovery practice e.g. counselling, community signposting etc and their role in supporting recovery and resilience. Knowledge of local policies in respect of safeguarding. Excellent communication skills and the ability to develop relationships with professionals, stakeholders and people accessing the service. Understanding of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and confidentiality. A commitment to working within a framework that recognises the diversity of people and encourages equality and opportunity for all.
Desirable
- Demonstrate well-developed listening skills and effective verbal communication skills, such as being able to engage appropriately with people, carers, colleagues, statutory and voluntary agencies, both face to face and by telephone. Trained in an allied field such as counselling, mediation, advocacy or social work.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working in any health, social care, or any related voluntary organisation setting. An understanding and working knowledge of various mental health conditions. An understanding of a range of skills and interventions linked to wellbeing and recovery practice e.g. counselling, community signposting etc and their role in supporting recovery and resilience. Knowledge of local policies in respect of safeguarding. Excellent communication skills and the ability to develop relationships with professionals, stakeholders and people accessing the service. Understanding of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and confidentiality. A commitment to working within a framework that recognises the diversity of people and encourages equality and opportunity for all.
Desirable
- Demonstrate well-developed listening skills and effective verbal communication skills, such as being able to engage appropriately with people, carers, colleagues, statutory and voluntary agencies, both face to face and by telephone. Trained in an allied field such as counselling, mediation, advocacy or social work.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
