Band 5 Recovery Practitioner - Coast Resource Centre

Job description

Job responsibilities

Recovery practitioners to contribute to the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings. This may include:

The use of standardised assessment tools such as Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV Recovery Star

History, strengths and aspirations

Mental state

Impact of culture and diversity

Functional needs

The needs of family and carer

Evaluation of risk

Physical health

Complicating factors

The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.

Social Care needs

Safeguarding and public protection

Recovery practitioner will contribute to planning, delivering and reviewing treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.

Individual or group therapeutic intervention

Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions

Psychosocial interventions

Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.

Medication management

Interventions under the Mental Health Act,

Recovery practitioner will deliver a range of activities/defined interventions to improve the friends/relatives/carers (carers) ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.

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

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

Recovery practitioner will personally 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.

Recovery practitioner will be responsible for maintaining own workload on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, making full use of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.

Recovery practitioner will be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, by contributing with others to the plans to protect people at risk, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

Recovery practitioner will facilitate access for service users and carers to appropriate community services and interventions outside secondary mental health services and across the complete recovery pathway.

Recovery practitioner will work collaboratively and sensitively 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 experience and success, and use small steps to move towards the person's goal.

Recovery practitioner will 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.

Recovery practitioner will report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

Recovery practitioner will proactively participate in management, workload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy, taking personal responsibility for making appropriate arrangements.

Recovery practitioner will provide mentoring/ training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care. Specifically this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students, participating in their learning objectives and assessments

Recovery practitioner will demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal, and by providing appropriate information to help others.

Recovery practitioner will adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained

Recovery practitioner will participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography

Recovery practitioner will show willingness to support practices which foster and maintain team working.

Person Specification

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies
• Mobile with the facility to move quickly across a geographically dispersed area with limited access to public transport.
• Experience in writing support plans and motivational interviewing

Education & Qualification

Essential

• Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, e.g., RMN, OT, Social Worker.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Coast Resource Centre

Diamond Batch

Weston-Super-Mare

BS24 7FY

Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)