Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - The Elms

The South Glos. Recovery Team North are looking for a Specialist Recovery nurse Practitioner to join our supportive and friendly team. The team is based in Thornbury with a geographical area covering South Glos. area, including Yate, Patchway and other suburban areas. This is a wide geographical area with limited access to public transport. The post offers the opportunity to develop your skills with new training in Structured Clinical Management (SCM) with a supervision program in place to support staff. The role entails Key Workers holding a caseload of service users under secondary mental health services and the coordination and delivery of evidenced based interventions. This includes commissioning packages under the care act.Main duties of the job We would welcome applications from qualified nurses with experience of working with people with acute and enduring mental health needs. We are keen to appoint nurses to the team to share their specific skills and expertise. If you are looking to further your community experience, we would love to hear from you. We will consider recently qualified nurses who have completed their preceptorship. Your main duties will include:

• key working a varied caseload including a range of presentations and diagnoses
• key working service users throughout their recovery including stepping up and down care when needed
• cover duty and duty nurse responsibilities
• working as an intervention based service identifying service user need and how they can meet their goals
• support the running of the clinic and medication management
• working closely with other services including social worker colleagues, the intensive support team (IST), psychological therapy service (PTS) and the primary care liaison team (PCLS)
• contribute your expertise within the MDT
  
  We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provideHigh Quality, Compassionate Careeverywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy. Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people. 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.