Job summary
This role is focused on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with severe and enduring mental health needs, their carers (including friends and relatives) and their supporters in the community, enabling and assisting them to meet the outcomes that are important to them and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.
The post holder will also provide clinical leadership and supervision to team members.
The role involves providing profession specific interventions to people and also bringing professional expertise into the Multi-Disciplinary Team.
In addition, there may be a need to provide non-profession specific, defined, personalised interventions that are agreed through Support Conversations. These might include a range of possible generic, evidence based therapeutic interventions where staff are trained to deliver these interventions.
The role involves being responsible for Personalised Care and Support Planning through the AWP Your Team-Your Conversation-Your Plan approach, including taking on the role of "keyworker" at times andcompleting Safety Assessments. There may also be requirements to support the delivery of Social Care Assessments and reviews where required.
Main duties of the job
- To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver an ongoing comprehensive mental health service.
- To facilitate 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 thesestrength 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.See job description for full details of duties.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust):a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To plan, deliver and evaluate Nursing Interventions as a member of a Multi- Disciplinary Team.Be aware of and demonstrate skills in the Must-do actions for mental health nurses and demonstrate the valuable personal qualities of a mental health nurse as outlined in the NHSE Mental-Health-Nurses-Handbook.Demonstrate effective leadership qualities, as reinforced in the NMC Code, that all nurses demonstrating leadership behaviours regardless of whether they occupy formal leadership positions.Actively initiate collaborative assessments, goal setting and planning to enable decision making when working with service users and their families, using appropriate communication skills and strength based approaches.Identify service user needs through effective assessment and use the information obtained to plan individualised nursing care using a range of contemporary assessment and improvement tools.To influence developments that improve the persons experience, whilst advocating on behalf of service users.Uphold and fulfil the nursing interventions seen as most effective and helpful for mental health service-users such as 1:1 support/time to focus and explain the clinical, social, practical options for treatment and best available evidence, as well as knowing/advising when to use medication.Demonstrate high-level knowledge of biopsychosocial approaches/interventions.Collaboratively undertake safety assessments and crisis and contingency planning to create personal safety plans, recognising situations that may increase risk, ensuring prompt action is taken to safeguard those who are vulnerable.Proactively respond to signs of deterioration or distress in mental, physical, cognitive and behavioural health.Recognise the need for liaison with and/or referral to external organisations and/or localauthorities for consideration of unmet care or physical health needs.Organise or deliver a range of psychosocially-informed interventions in accordance with NICE guidelines, in line with post nursing registration training, competence and confidence.Use evidence-based practice, health promotion and motivational techniques to support service users to undertake activities of healthy daily living including personal care, sexual health, sleep hygiene, skin integrity, mobility and adaptation, incontinence, bladder andbowel health.Understand and apply principles of safe and effective administration and optimisation of medicines in accordance with local and national policies.Support and supervise newly qualified practitioners, Nursing students, Nursing Associates, or support worker colleagues in the delivery of nursing care, promoting reflection and providing constructive feedback.Work in line with the Community Mental Health Framework to guide MDT approaches to care, supporting the service user journey, proactively identifying and overcoming barriers to care delivery, at times of increased need, between care settings, and at point of discharge.
See job description for full details of duties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To plan, deliver and evaluate Nursing Interventions as a member of a Multi- Disciplinary Team.Be aware of and demonstrate skills in the Must-do actions for mental health nurses and demonstrate the valuable personal qualities of a mental health nurse as outlined in the NHSE Mental-Health-Nurses-Handbook.Demonstrate effective leadership qualities, as reinforced in the NMC Code, that all nurses demonstrating leadership behaviours regardless of whether they occupy formal leadership positions.Actively initiate collaborative assessments, goal setting and planning to enable decision making when working with service users and their families, using appropriate communication skills and strength based approaches.Identify service user needs through effective assessment and use the information obtained to plan individualised nursing care using a range of contemporary assessment and improvement tools.To influence developments that improve the persons experience, whilst advocating on behalf of service users.Uphold and fulfil the nursing interventions seen as most effective and helpful for mental health service-users such as 1:1 support/time to focus and explain the clinical, social, practical options for treatment and best available evidence, as well as knowing/advising when to use medication.Demonstrate high-level knowledge of biopsychosocial approaches/interventions.Collaboratively undertake safety assessments and crisis and contingency planning to create personal safety plans, recognising situations that may increase risk, ensuring prompt action is taken to safeguard those who are vulnerable.Proactively respond to signs of deterioration or distress in mental, physical, cognitive and behavioural health.Recognise the need for liaison with and/or referral to external organisations and/or localauthorities for consideration of unmet care or physical health needs.Organise or deliver a range of psychosocially-informed interventions in accordance with NICE guidelines, in line with post nursing registration training, competence and confidence.Use evidence-based practice, health promotion and motivational techniques to support service users to undertake activities of healthy daily living including personal care, sexual health, sleep hygiene, skin integrity, mobility and adaptation, incontinence, bladder andbowel health.Understand and apply principles of safe and effective administration and optimisation of medicines in accordance with local and national policies.Support and supervise newly qualified practitioners, Nursing students, Nursing Associates, or support worker colleagues in the delivery of nursing care, promoting reflection and providing constructive feedback.Work in line with the Community Mental Health Framework to guide MDT approaches to care, supporting the service user journey, proactively identifying and overcoming barriers to care delivery, at times of increased need, between care settings, and at point of discharge.
See job description for full details of duties.
Person Specification
Application form and interview
Essential
- Can demonstrate ability to manage risk incidents
- Experience of medication management, including administering depot medication
- A minimum of two years post qualifying experience
Desirable
- Experience working within a community mental health team
- Experience delivering psychological interventions, such as SCM
Person Specification
Application form and interview
Essential
- Can demonstrate ability to manage risk incidents
- Experience of medication management, including administering depot medication
- A minimum of two years post qualifying experience
Desirable
- Experience working within a community mental health team
- Experience delivering psychological interventions, such as SCM
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
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