Jobs at Avon in Germany

A vacancy has arisen for a Band 5 community mental health depot nurse (Key Worker) to join the later life Complex Intervention and Treatment Team (CITT) based in the Victoria Centre, Swindon.

Applicants will need to demonstrate knowledge in the areas of the delivery of mental health care in the community, with particular reference to the needs of Older People, together with an understanding of both the PWP and Care Management processes.

You will be required to provide key interventions for an allocated caseload of service users with substantial and complex mental health needs. Potential additional interventions could involve being responsible for the ongoing assessment, planning delivery and review of activities and interventions against identified health, social care and well being needs, acting as key worker for a defined group of service users. Support will also be offered to family and carers. The CIT team has a cohort of clients who administer regular LAI (long acting injectable) medication. The clients attending this clinic are generally presenting long term stability in their mental health, are low risk and have little to no additional recovery needs. The main role of them engaging in the CIT team services is for their LAI medication to be administered.

There are times when this cohort of clients will have additional needs similar to the CIT team key worker role. This role may then require an acute increase in support. This support will entail brief interventions and when this work is completed for the clients to be handed back to only having the depot clinic.

The clinician will need to manage the day to day running of the depot clinic including follow up of missed depots, keeping paperwork updated in a timely manner, following through additional intervention needs that have been identified as summarized above.

The clinician will help with transferring clients to appropriate services when needed including stepping down to primary or third sector services and GP's. The clinician will help in the ongoing development of this new service provision development.

Applicants will be expected to demonstrate a high level of decision making skills and to work independently. Applicants will also need to be proficient with the use of IT systems for both data and documentation purposes.

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.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

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.