Job summary
Employer heading
Band 6-7 Development Senior Practitioner-Integrated Access Partnership
Band 6-7
Job overview
Join our award-winning mental health service and be at the forefront of mental health care!
We are recruiting ambitious nurses, social workers and OT's to complete a unique development programme to become a Senior Practitioner in our pioneering Mental Health Integrated Access Partnership (IAP), a collaboration between South Western Ambulance Service, AWP, BrisDoc Healthcare and other key partners.
You will join an innovative team that provides urgent care to those experiencing mental health crises. We operate across 999, 111 and urgent community services to offer urgent and emergency mental health support 24/7. Through telephone, video or face-to-face appointments, you’ll carry out specialist assessments to ensure patients get the right care when they need it most.
This role provides an exciting opportunity to progress and expand your skills. You’ll start on a band 6 contract by undertaking mental health triage and risk assessments, coordinating with emergency services and developing management plans to support positive outcomes for complex patients.
Upon completion of the 6-12 month development programme, you will transition to a band 7 contract. As well as supervision and lead role responsibilities, you’ll be actively using your expertise to enhance our care model by analysing service delivery, identifying and implementing improvements and supporting our integrated, multi-agency approach.
For more information about the IAP, please visit our website: https://bit.ly/_IAP
Main duties of the job
This development opportunity will include a individualised competency framework supporting you to ensure that successful applicants have the necessary skill and experience to undertake the role of a Senior Band 7 Practitioner.
Successful practitioners will undertake a range of shifts across the 24/7 operating model, that will include night, weekend and bank holiday working.
Programme of work will include:
- Designated senior supervisor/mentor for the duration of the programme.
- Relevant additional training courses as per development need.
- Progression to Band 7 upon completion of competencies within 6-12 months.
- Focus on complex, remote and face to face triage, assessment and clinical interventions.
- Exposure to all workstreams within the IAP.
- Working within a national award winning, innovative service.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached band 6 and band 7 job descriptions and person specifications for further details of the specialist practitioner and senior practitioner roles.
Key responsibilities upon completion of the development programme are:
- Part of the senior clinical team within the IAP team
- Managing performance of designated team members
- Providing supervision and clinical leadership within the team
- Supporting the Team Manager with staff development
- Analysing service data to identify areas for improvement
- Positive driver of change and service improvement initiatives
- Ensuring the team complies with governance and policy requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Registration for the following occupations; Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker
- Diploma level/degree in relevant health/social care profession
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate qualification relevant to role
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post-registration experience in frontline mental health services
- Experience of mentoring/assessing students and learners
- Experience of assessing risk and developing risk strategies
- Ability to articulate detailed understanding of relevant legal frameworks/legislation
Desirable criteria
- Experience gained in a wide variety of settings
- Experience of conducting mental health crisis, triage and assessments
- All age Mental Healthcare Experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to deliver from a range of key therapeutic interventions
- Highly developed interpersonal skills, ability to engage with people of all levels of mental health distress
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Caryss Knighton
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07738 299227
- Additional information
Please call or email to ask any questions about the service or this new role and/or to arrange a informal visit to one of our bases.
Joel Phillips
Service Manager
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