Band 5 Intensive Practitioner - Hillview Lodge Bath, England
Job description
The BANES Intensive service provides assessments and treatments to individuals and their families when experiencing mental health crisis. The team work hard to provide this to people in crisis within their own homes to prevent the need for hospital admission.
This post would be perfect for health professionals who have experience working in a mental health setting who wish to develop their skills within an intensive team. We can also consider those who are looking to complete their preceptorship and would welcome applications from final year university students. We would welcome applicants from Nursing, Social Work or Occupational Therapy background.
You will need to be proactive and a good problem solver. We will support you to become increasingly autonomous in your role and develop strong assessment, triage and care planning/ implementation skills. You will need strong communication skills to develop therapeutic relationships with people in a range of challenging situations.
If you have an interest in developing into a Specialist Mental Health Crisis Practitioner, we would love to hear from you.
**This role no longer includes night shift duties**
As a band 5 Intensive Practitioner you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing health and social care interventions to people with high risk and/or complex mental health issues, whom without community intervention may be at risk of hospitalisation. The team operates 08:00-22:00 7 days a week. There is an expectation to work over 7 days although we are flexible and aim to accommodate requests.
You will support the team caseload by joining our senior staff to carry out frontline emergency and urgent assessments as well as the development and implementation of recovery focussed care plans, medication and risk management plans.
Your work may involve supporting someone to develop a crisis plan, practice emotional regulation skills and implement a range of therapeutic evidence based interventions.
The team are built up of a range of different professionals, such as the Team Manager, Senior Practitioner, Consultant Psychiatrist, Social Workers, Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapist and un-registered Intensive Practitioners.
We have some very experienced members of staff who have been in the team for many years, as well as some newer members of the team with fresh ideas and approaches. We pride ourselves in the diversity of experience within the team that allows for development and growth.
We enjoy good humour and there is always different snacks and coffee available to make the work we do a little bit more manageable!
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.
In a wide range of situations and locations to contribute to the full range of activities required to deliver comprehensive mental health assessment, in an emergency for service users, who may be distressed and in crisis. This may include:
a. The use of standardised assessment tools i.e. Cluster Allocation Support Tool
(CAST), KGV
b. Recovery Star
c. History, strengths and aspirations
d. Mental state
e. Impact of culture and diversity
f. Functional needs
g. The needs of family and carer
h. Evaluation of risk
i. Physical health
j. Complicating factors
k. Identifying and ensuring specialist involvement where required.
l. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
m. Social care needs
n. Safeguarding and public protection
2. To contribute to planning, delivering and reviewing 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.
3. To act as care coordinator for identified service users, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
4. To contribute to the planning, delivery and evaluation of defined, therapeutic interventions as identified, in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads. This might include:
a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention
Team
Manager
Senior
Practitioner
Band 6 Specialist Intensive Practitioners, Band 5 Intensive
Practitioner, Band 4 Intensive Recovery Co-ordinators, medical staff, administrator
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,
5. To deliver a range of activities/defined interventions to improve the carer’s ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.
6. To 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.
7. 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.
8. To 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.
9. To 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.
10. To 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.
11. To 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.
12. To facilitate access for service users and carers to appropriate community services and interventions outside secondary mental health services and across the complete
recovery pathway.
13. Personally working 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 experience and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.
14. 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.
15. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.
16. To proactively participate in management, work load and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy, taking personal responsibility for making appropriate arrangements.
17. To provide mentoring/ training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care.
18. 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. Specifically this means providing a safe and effective
learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students , participating in their learning objectives and assessments.
19. To participate in local arrangements where required to manage unexpected staff absences.
20. To show willingness to support practices which foster and maintain team working.
21. To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and
competencies required are maintained.
