Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Bristol

We are recruiting for a Specialist Recovery Practitioner with the North Bristol Assessment and Recovery Team. We are a welcoming and supportive team based in The Greenway Centre. We cover the Northern area of Bristol localities and support a diverse local population presenting with complex mental health and social care needs. We are looking for a Specialist Recovery Practitioner with a passion for delivering high quality recovery focused interventions in a community setting. We can consider applicants for both full time (37.5hrs) and part time positions. This post is open to newly qualified social workers. In line with trust policy, all newly qualified social workers will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding. All NQSWs are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be agreed to extend this for a further 2 years. On successful completion of the ASYE, for which you will be given full support of an experienced Social Worker as well as Divisional Social Work Lead, and peer support from other ASYE candidates, you will then be eligible to progress to a Band 6 position. If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy. The post holder will focus on high quality assessment of service users and delivery of focused recovery based interventions. You will be required to contribute towards the planning, implementation and review of care alongside a multi-disciplinary team. Applicants will have a commitment to working with service users creatively towards their identified recovery goals and to promote choice and self-management. All Specialist Recovery Practitioners may at times be required to undertake both assessment and care coordination dependant on the needs of the team. You can expect to receive excellent supervision and there will be opportunities for career development and training in order to support you in this role. We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy. Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jack Fogarty Job title: Team Manager Email address: jack.fogarty@nhs.net Telephone number: 0117 354 7300 Please get in touch if you would like more information about the job, to organise an informal visit or to meet the team.