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Job summary

Main area
Social Worker, Nurse, OT
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
342-BR156-1026
Employer
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Speedwell Centre
Town
Bristol
Salary
£32,073 - £39,043 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/10/2026 23:59

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Band 5 Recovery Practitioner - Speedwell

Band 5


Job overview

We are inviting applications from registered nurses, social workers or occupational therapists to join the Central & East Assessment & Recovery Team based in Speedwell, Bristol.

We are a welcoming and supportive team with a consistent, established leadership team, that prioritises the wellbeing of staff to enable the delivery of high quality care and treatment. 

We are a multidisciplinary Recovery Team which covers Central and East Bristol. As a keyworker you will hold a diverse and complex caseload and deliver recovery focused interventions

 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will focus on high quality assessment of service users and delivery of focused recovery based interventions. You will be required to contribute towards the planning, implementation and review of care alongside a multi-disciplinary team. 

Applicants will have a commitment to working with service users creatively towards their identified recovery goals and to promote choice and self-management.

All  Recovery Practitioners may at times be required to undertake both assessment and key working dependant on the needs of the team.

You can expect to receive excellent supervision and there will be opportunities for career development and training in order to support you in this role. 

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

1. To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health service. 
2. To undertake the delivery of Personalised Care and Support Planning in line with the Your Team your Conversation-Your Plan” Policy and guidance.  
 - 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.  
- 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. 
- Your Team – to facilitate a “team around the person” approach; working 
collaboratively with people’s social networks and with a range of agencies. 
- 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. 
- Your Plan – to use Support Conversations to co-create and refresh the Personal Wellbeing Plan. 
3. To record risk incidents and to collaboratively create and update Safety Assessments and Safety Plans 
4. To provide personalised interventions to support people with Mental Health difficulties. 
5. To sometimes act as a Keyworker for people to whom you are delivering interventions. A keyworker is someone who is the key point of contact for people and their families and other teams and services. Although it is everyone’s responsibility, Keyworkers take a lead role in making 
sure that everyone who is working with the person understands the plan and is working together as a team. Keyworkers take a lead responsibility for having Support Conversations and making sure that the Personal Wellbeing Plan makes sense.  
6. To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, non-profession specific specialist therapeutic interventions. 
This might include: 
- Individual or group therapeutic intervention.  
- Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches , family interventions 
- Psychosocial interventions 
- Motivational and coping enhancement strategies. 
- Medication management (supporting medication concordance using occupational solutions and assistive technology)

Please see the attached job description for your respective registrations.

 

Person specification

Qualifications, skills, experience

Essential criteria
  • Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, OT, Social Worker
  • Current relevant registration with the NMC/HCPC/SW England and commitment to CPD.
  • Able to manage a complex caseload, undertake frontline assessment, assess and manage risks
  • Demonstrates a developed understanding of the recovery principles and the role of Specialist Recovery Practitioner
  • Experience of community mental health work
Desirable criteria
  • Relevant post-registration qualifications, such as DBT, Non Medical Prescribing, CBT
  • Experience of supervising junior staff and trainees

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerInclusive Top 50 LogoThe Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (enei) is the UK's leading employer network covering all aspects of equality and inclusion issues in the workplace.Armed Forces CovenantInclusive Top 50 UK Employers Ranking at 26th logo this yearOnvero (formerly enei) Siler Standard Award for 2024 /2025, known as TIDE

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Hanna Paddock
Job title
Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0117 9556098
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