Band 7 Non Medical Prescriber

We are recruiting for an Independent Non Medical Prescriber in South Bristol Assessment And Recovery Team.

We are a large team that covers south of Bristol area. We are a motivated, friendly and supportive team that are passionate about delivering evidence based interventions to the service users in our community.

We have a diverse service user population which includes the University of the West of England, Approved Premises and high levels of supported housing projects who support service users with complex emotional needs, forensic histories and service users subject to Ministry of Justice restrictions.

You will be well supported operationally by the Team Manager to enable you to thrive in your clinical role. You will also have the support from the highly experienced and stable team of Senior Practitioners at our Petherton office base.

Our office is situated at Petherton Road. We have free parking and access to pool cars and electric bikes for clinical staff to support easy access into the clean air zone and all areas of our community.

As an NMP you will work closely with the Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Practitioner to demonstrate extensive clinical experience and knowledge to contribute to the MDT.

You will be able to manage complex cases autonomously as well as providing supervision and support to junior staff in the team

Your prescribing expertise will enable you to undertake assessments and prescribe independently within the team.

You will ensure excellent clinical standards are maintained within the team.

Effective caseload management will be underpinned by robust and effective individual supervision and leadership of clinical meetings.

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 lead and inspire the team to deliver a high quality and effective recovery service for service users and carers.

2. To provide clinical leadership to ensure where appropriate the service will work effectively alongside other services, to manage risk and prevent hospital admission for service users with the most complex and acute needs.

3. To undertake and support the specialist ongoing assessment of physiological and/or psychological functioning for service users with the most complex and health and wellbeing needs. This may include:a. The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV.b. The 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.

4. To be responsible for, both individually and within the team, the development, delivery and review of 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.

5. Within sphere of expertise, and advanced practice, to be responsible for coordinating care for a small number of service users, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.

6. To plan, deliver, and evaluate defined advanced specialist therapeutic interventions within sphere of expertise, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads. This might include:a. Family intervention.b. Psychological therapies such as CBT.c. Medication management.d. Interventions under the Mental Health Act.

7. To oversee and 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.

8. To lead, in partnership with the team manager, ensuring the service develops and maintains excellent clinical…