Overview
Swindon Early Intervention Team have an opportunity for a band 5 practitioner to join the team. As a band 5 practitioner you will work alongside the senior staff in a multidisciplinary team, holding a caseload of cases with service users experiencing first episode psychosis. You will support service users to engage in the full range of the Early Intervention model alongside the national framework for EI teams including family intervention, CBTp, psycho-education, physical health monitoring, IPS, pharmacology and service user focused community groups. The applicant will need to be passionate and motivated to work with this service group and be flexible and committed to engaging in an assertive outreach approach. The successful candidate will need to have a full UK driving licence and be qualified as a RMN, MHWP, or Social worker.
Responsibilities
* To assess (with support) people with psychosis or possible psychosis.
* To plan and implement specialist programmes of care for people following the first appearance of psychosis or for a limited period where psychosis is suspected, including carrying a specialist caseload of clients and acting as care co-ordinator.
* To liaise and work in collaboration with other agencies in planning and assessing programmes of care.
* To provide specialist advice to service users, carers and professionals.
* To develop awareness sessions around psychosis and early intervention to be delivered within education and youth services.
* To undertake audit, research and development activities.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Hall Job title: Team Manager Email address: helen.hall5@nhs.net Telephone number: 01793715000
If you would like to contact Helen Hall or Charlotte Landers for more information about the position, then please email or call the contact details. helen.hall5@nhs.net or Charlotte.Landers@nhs.net
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