Job overview

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 and
completing Safety Assessments. There may also be requirements to support the delivery of Social Care Assessments and reviews where required.

Main duties of the job

1. To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver an ongoing comprehensive mental health service. 
2. To facilitate the delivery of Personalised Care and Support Planning in line with the Your Team your Conversation-Your Plan Policy and guidance. 
3. 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. 
4. 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. 
5. Your Team – to facilitate a “team around the person” approach; working collaboratively with people’s social networks and with a range of agencies. 
6. 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 these 
   strength based conversations to co-create advance plans to keep people well and safe in the future. 
7. Your Plan – to use Support Conversations to co-create and refresh the Personal Wellbeing Plan. 
   
   See job description for full details of duties. 

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.