Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Complex Emotional Needs

Job overview

A fresh opportunity has become available within the North Bristol area of the BNSSG Wide complex emotional needs team. We are a co-produced team who work within the BNSSG area and our main aim is to improve the lives of service user with difficulties associated with complex emotional needs (also known as personality disorder).

We are looking for a registered healthcare professional or qualified clinical associate psychologist to join our team to deliver care and service improvements for people seeking support for complex emotional needs (also known as personality disorder).

We are looking for an individual who is committed and enthusiastic, with previously acquired skills and knowledge in working with those with difficulties associated with complex emotional needs.

We want our staff to learn and grow in the BNSSG Wide CEN Service and our team has regular reflective practice, CPD slots and opportunities to pursue further training in evidence based interventions.

Main duties of the job

- Deliver structured clinical management to a caseload of up to 10 service users under the recovery team

- Co-facilitate the problem solving group with an aim to become lead facilitator

- Work alongside the senior practitioner for complex emotional needs to increase access to evidence     based interventions and monitor and improve quality of care for those individuals requiring it

- Carry out post group reviews and support discharge planning

- Take part in service improvement and development in the area of complex emotional needs for North Bristol

- Attend BNSSG Wide CEN team meetings, supervisions, reflective practice and CPD meetings

- Co-deliver training as part of the BNSSG Wide CEN Service

- Deliver DBT or MBT or be considered for training in either if required

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings. This will include:

a. The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV

b. Recovery Star

c. History, strengths and aspirations

d. Mental state

e. Impact of culture and diversity

f. Functional needs

g. The needs of family and carer

h. Evaluation of risk

i. Physical health

j. Complicating factors

k. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.

l. Social care needs

m. Safeguarding and public protection

n. Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act

To be responsible for developing delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence–based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.

To act as care coordinator for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.

To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process ,in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads. This might include:

a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention

b. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions

c. Psychosocial interventions

d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.

e. Medication management

f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act,

To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers‘ ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.

To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.

In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.

To personally build and lead others to build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.

To be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day to day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.

To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, including working with others in the planning development and review of protection plans, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

Coordinating and undertaking protective interventions which maybe required in the protection of others, as outlined in the protection plan, taking individual action where indicated.

Personally and leading others to collaboratively and sensitively work with individuals, with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experiences and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.

Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, covering for the manager and colleagues as required.

To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.

Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

To participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.

To provide mentoring/training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care. Specifically this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students , participating in their learning objectives and assessments

Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of and providing, effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal.

Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.

Develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of available feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify appropriate areas of development for this work role, taking responsibility for accessing identified learning and training opportunities.

Lead, maintain and participate in practices which enable effective team working.

To participate in duty rotas as required.

To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.

Information for newly qualified social workers:

The ASYE, or Assessed and Supported Year in Employment is a programme of development for all newly qualified social workers (NQSWS), overseen and moderated by Skills for Care.  Each NQSW, during their first year in employment, is required to produce a portfolio of evidence, demonstrating how they have met 9 professional capabilities.  They are required to undertake regular and supported critically reflective supervision with a dedicated assessor, undertake 3 direct observations of their practice and produce 2 pieces of critical reflection, as well as gathering evidence from professionals and service users.

In acknowledgement of the significant amount of work required of the programme, we have sought and gained agreement from the trust that all newly qualified social workers should initially be appointed at a Band 5 level.