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Older Adult Mental Health Practitioner
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
342-BNS029-0525
Employer
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Hollies, Midsomer Norton
Town
Midsomer Norton
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/05/2025 23:59
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Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner - Bath

Band 6

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced older adult clinician to join the BaNES Older Adult Community Mental Health Team, a well established, multi-disciplinary, integrated team. 

Are you passionate about providing evidence based interventions to a cohort of older adults experiencing significant mental health challenges, and to individuals living with a complex dementia? 

Are you passionate about the value of working in a multidisciplinary team, working alongside colleagues employed by the local authority in a highly collaborative way? 

The post is based in Bath and North East Somerset, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is a beautiful city, surrounded by amazing countryside locations, and offering an impressive variety of arts, culture and sports. Easily commutable from surrounding areas, including rail links to Bristol and beyond, there is staff parking available as well as access to pool cars, charge points for electric cares, and lock up facilities for those cycling to work.

Please do contact the team to discuss the role and consider whether BaNES CMHT would be the right team for you to join, at this exciting time, as the service is adapting in line with the Community Mental Health Framework.  

Main duties of the job

You will be joining the team at a time when the key worker role (replacing care co-ordination) has been introduced. Your role will be to provide specific interventions to individuals across the workstreams, those individuals experiencing significant mental health needs, and those living with a dementia, in order to enhance their well being and maintain independence. This may involve working in a highly collaborative, holistic and solution focussed manner,  delivering specific therapeutic interventions, supporting engagement with treatment, assessing and working with individuals in order to manage risks, assessing care and support needs, and supporting the introduction of appropriate care and support packages. 

The post will offer the opportunity to develop and enhance supervisory skills, whilst providing supervision for both qualified and unqualified members of the team. 

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.  

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

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

KEY RESULT AREAS:
 
Clinical Practice
 
1) To be able to complete high quality, holistic assessment of an individuals need and risk following referral to mental health services. 
2) To be responsible for a specific caseload of service users using the integrated CPA process and acting as care co-ordinator.
3) To establish with the service user and carer (where appropriate) an agreed well being plan, which includes evidence based interventions to address assessed needs, how outcomes will be measured and agreed timescale for input.
4) To commission such services as are appropriate to the individuals need, following funding agreement, or appropriate referrals.
5) To regularly evaluate the individual's plan with them and alter as required.
6) To use the principles and processes with the agreed ICPA policy and to act as care co-ordinator when appropriate.
7) To undertake specialist assessments, e.g. Cognitive testing/care act assessment.
 
Record Keeping & Administration
 
1) To keep contemporaneous, chronological and accurate mental health records in accordance with Trust policy, professional guidelines and local team procedures.
2) To collect and input information and appropriate statistics for providing overall information about clinical activity.
3) To use time effectively and make appropriate use of resources.
4) To attend business meetings and participate in clinical discussion, presenting complex cases when appropriate.
 
Clinical Liaison
 
1) To provide effective communication both within AWP and with Primary Care, Social Services and a range of other voluntary and statutory organisations.
2) To sensitively and appropriately communicate with colleagues, service users, carers and relatives.
3) To operate within the Multi Agency Policy on Safeguarding Adults and participate in the investigation process as appropriate.
 
Continuing Professional Development and Practice
 
1) To maintain and develop professional knowledge skills and expertise, to ensure that practice reflects best practice and remain current and evidence based.
2) To act in accordance within the guidelines from your professional body.
3) To work to the policies and procedures of the Trust.
4) To ensure knowledge of and work to any local team policies and procedures.
5) To maintain up to date knowledge of relevant medicines, related medication management issues and act in accordance with Professional Body guidelines.
6) To take responsibility for post-registration education and practice requirements for continued professional development needs.
7) To ensure the provision and fully participate in the clinical and management supervision and appraisal process.
8) To actively participate in the Trust’s policy of appraisal and staff development.
9) To maintain up to date knowledge and skills of appropriate IT systems.
 
Teaching, Education and Audit
 
1) To contribute to the provision of an appropriate learning environment for pre and post registered students and new team members and act as a mentor for students.
2) To provide formal feedback from training sessions attended.
3) To identify, initiate and support the development of improvements in the service, including clinical audit.
 
Management
 
1) To provide supervision for other staff members both qualified and unqualified as required by the Team Manager/Senior Practitioner.
2) To lead on agreed service development initiatives or represent the team.

Person specification

shortlisting

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working with older adults who live with complex mental health needs or dementia
  • Post registration experience in a variety of Mental Health Settings
  • Registered Mental Health Practitioner
  • Demonstrable skills to work independently and prioritise case load.
Desirable criteria
  • Post graduate qualifications - CBT/ SCM/ DBT/ Clear/ Newcastle Model
  • Significant risk management experience
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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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kimberley Bennett
Job title
Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01225 371411

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