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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
342-WTS220-1025
Employer
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bewley House
Town
Chippenham
Salary
£31,049 - £37,796 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/11/2025 23:59

Employer heading

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Band 5 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Wiltshire

Band 5


Job overview

An exciting new role has become available within the NEW CMHT, North and East Wiltshire.

We are a friendly, supportive team who are passionate about improving the lives of service users with complex mental health needs. We are a forward-thinking service and, for many years, have implemented a new way of working with service users with emotionally unstable/borderline personality disorders.

This is an evidence-based model of care called Structured Clinical Management. Successful applicants will be offered a three-day training package on how to deliver this model, along with specialised individual and group supervision.

As a keyworker in the team, you will be responsible for a caseload of service users with a range of complex mental health needs, working within 'Your Team, Your Conversation, Your Plan' framework to deliver a range of mental health interventions.

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

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for clinicians to work in a focused way, developing skills for an identified group of individuals on a non-psychotic pathway, improving the outcomes and experience for our service users and their carers.

The successful applicant will be responsible for the care coordination of a complex caseload of service users on the non-psychotic pathway.

The role will involve providing therapeutic interventions and linking in with other professionals to coordinate their input.

Main responsibilities: 

  • Delivering interventions to a complex caseload of service users with complex emotional needs
  • Multi-agency working

  • Risk management

  • Administration of medications

  • Fulfilling the CMHT duty worker role on a rolling rot

Please see the attached job description file for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

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 (BANES), 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

Provide a mental health service to an allocated caseload of service users, and deliver a set of defined interventions within that caseload.

You will have responsibility for the assessment of needs, the planning and implementation of treatment and care to meet those needs—as agreed with the multidisciplinary team and/or supervisor.

This includes key working (with supervision) service users and contributing to the evaluation of care across a variety of settings where mental health or specialist treatment is available.

Liaise, as appropriate, with other members of the multidisciplinary team and other agencies involved in the care of individual service users.

Participate in integrated governance processes, particularly as they relate to your own practice. Contribute to the monitoring of service provision, performance, and standards of care through data collection and audit processes.

This role is focused on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with severe and enduring mental health needs, and their carers (including friends, relatives, and supporters) in the community. You will enable and assist them to meet daily health, social care, and well-being needs in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitate engagement with mainstream services.

Please see the attached job description file for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

 

Person specification

Qualification/Registration

Essential criteria
  • Current relevant registration with the NMC, HCPC, or SWE, and a commitment to continuing professional development (CPD).
  • Diploma-level or degree qualification in a relevant health profession.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Able to deliver a range of key therapeutic interventions, including CBT, psychosocial interventions, and family interventions.
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrated experience in delivering mental health services within the UK healthcare system.

Mobile

Essential criteria
  • Holds a valid UK driving licence and has access to a vehicle with appropriate business insurance.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardThe Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion is the leading employer network covering all aspects of equality and inclusion in the workplace.Veteran AwarePositive about disabled peopleThe Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion is the leading employer network covering all aspects of equality and inclusion in the workplace.Mindful 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 Covenant

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
Kelsey Greenaway
Job title
Team Manager
Telephone number
01380 731358
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