The BANES Early Intervention Team have an opportunity for a band 5 Mental Health wellbeing practitioner to join the team.
As part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will be key worker to service users who are experiencing first episode psychosis. In addition, you will also deliver brief, goal ‑ focused interventions to selected service users.
You will work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment. You will support service users to engage in the Early Intervention model including CBTp, psychoeducation, physical health monitoring, IPS, pharmacology, service user focused community groups and family intervention.
You will need to be passionate and motivated to work with this specific service group and be flexible and committed to engaging in an assertive outreach approach.
To jointly assess new referrals to the team for possible psychosis.
To contribute to the development of service user formulation
To work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based..
To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users
To work with carers and families in line with the service user’s wishes and to co facilitate family intervention
To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.
To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and care plans of service users in a skilled and sensitive manner in order to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients.
To develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention
To adhere and support the teams Key Performance areas and targets and targets
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.
1. To work within the Banes EI Service providing comprehensive and specialist assessment for people experiencing a first episode psychosis, covering the age group 14 - 65 years. This will include the use of formal psychiatric and psychological rating scales, as well as liaison with carers and staff from other agencies that may be involved with the individual.
2. To plan, prioritise and deliver specialist programmes of care to people for up to a three-year period following a first episode of psychosis. This will include case formulation, design of intervention, delivery and evaluation. You will contribute to a whole team working approach and work as a key worker delivering interventions.
3. To work with and on behalf of people in a way that promotes and develops their efforts, resources and quality of life. To deliver services in a manner that is appropriate, relevant and respectful to all community members, recognising diversity of ethnicity, culture, belief, privilege and capacity.
5. To provide advice to other members of the Early Interventions for Psychosis Service team and those outside of the team on the particular needs of people with psychosis and their families / carers.
6. To deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including:
Behavioural activation and graded exposure
Teaching problem-solving skills
Improving sleep
Recognising and managing emotions
Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
Building confidence
Medication support
7. With other members of the Banes Early Interventions Psychosis Service, to develop and facilitate clinical groups and workshops/training as appropriate.
8. To provide advice and support to carers/ relatives of our service users, and to provide structured family work to families where a person has a first episode or emerging psychosis.
9. To participate in clinical meetings e.g. PWP and client reviews as appropriate.
10. To assist in the transfer of appropriate cases between the CAMHS and Adult Services, in keeping with need and service user wishes.
11. To ensure that legal and Trust requirements affecting service user and staff are adhered to and ensure a safe working environment for service users and staff. To cooperate with statutory agencies with the responsibility to protect children and ensure that issues of risk and safety of young people are assessed and any necessary action is implemented.
12. To maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times when working with highly distressed people.
