Band 6 Specialist Practitioner - Bath

Job description

Job responsibilities

Working closely with the Team Manager and system partners, you will:

Provide visible, compassionate clinical and operational leadership to the overnight team.

Support high-quality assessment, intervention, and decision-making.

Support performance, quality, governance, and learning from incidents and feedback.

Support service development, embedding safe practice and a strong team identity.

Build and maintain effective partnerships with liaison services, intensive services, MHCAS, and acute trusts.

Ensure robust processes for admission, discharge, transfer, and handover of care.

Contribute to continuous improvement, service planning, and delivery of key performance standards.

To ensure the appropriate care pathway is identified focussed on the management of risk and prevent hospital admission for service users with the most complex and acute needs where appropriate.

To co-ordinate, undertake and/or support the specialist assessment of physiological and/or psychological functioning for service users with complex mental health and wellbeing needs, in an emergency for service users, who may be acutely unwell, distressed and in crisis.

To be responsible for, ensuring that calls made to OOHs enter an appropriate mental health care pathway using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and their carers, bringing in other resources as required.

To develop and maintain, good partnership working with other services throughout all urgent care episodes, including core partnership working with staff and regular liaison with other statutory agencies, including the Police, Ambulance Service and Social Service Emergency Duty Teams, in addition to Primary Health Care Teams, inpatient and intensive services, the Third Sector and with nominated carers/advocates.

Develop and maintain communication with a wide range of people/services/ agencies about complex matters or in complex situations with the purpose of sharing, developing or resolving difficult or complex issues for the benefit of service users/carer and the service.

To represent the organisation in a range of circumstances, settings, presenting, facilitating or explaining as appropriate and dealing with any questions or difficulties as they arise.

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 the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, by developing and reviewing with others protection plans and management strategies, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

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.

To work with the Team Manager to ensure the continuing improvements to the service in line with organisational goals.

To maintain health and social care records, 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, and deliver as required, management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.

Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for the development of others, both practitioners, and those in training.

To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.

To support workforce development through supervision, appraisal, and ongoing professional development.

Promote monitor and maintain best practice in health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.

Work with the Team Manager to develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.

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

Most importantly, you will be compassionate, motivated, and values-driven, with the ability to create a supportive environment for both staff and the people who use our services.

Job responsibilities

Working closely with the Team Manager and system partners, you will:

Provide visible, compassionate clinical and operational leadership to the overnight team.

Support high-quality assessment, intervention, and decision-making.

Support performance, quality, governance, and learning from incidents and feedback.

Support service development, embedding safe practice and a strong team identity.

Build and maintain effective partnerships with liaison services, intensive services, MHCAS, and acute trusts.

Ensure robust processes for admission, discharge, transfer, and handover of care.

Contribute to continuous improvement, service planning, and delivery of key performance standards.

To ensure the appropriate care pathway is identified focussed on the management of risk and prevent hospital admission for service users with the most complex and acute needs where appropriate.

To co-ordinate, undertake and/or support the specialist assessment of physiological and/or psychological functioning for service users with complex mental health and wellbeing needs, in an emergency for service users, who may be acutely unwell, distressed and in crisis.

To be responsible for, ensuring that calls made to OOHs enter an appropriate mental health care pathway using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and their carers, bringing in other resources as required.

To develop and maintain, good partnership working with other services throughout all urgent care episodes, including core partnership working with staff and regular liaison with other statutory agencies, including the Police, Ambulance Service and Social Service Emergency Duty Teams, in addition to Primary Health Care Teams, inpatient and intensive services, the Third Sector and with nominated carers/advocates.

Develop and maintain communication with a wide range of people/services/ agencies about complex matters or in complex situations with the purpose of sharing, developing or resolving difficult or complex issues for the benefit of service users/carer and the service.

To represent the organisation in a range of circumstances, settings, presenting, facilitating or explaining as appropriate and dealing with any questions or difficulties as they arise.

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 the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, by developing and reviewing with others protection plans and management strategies, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

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.

To work with the Team Manager to ensure the continuing improvements to the service in line with organisational goals.

To maintain health and social care records, 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, and deliver as required, management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.

Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for the development of others, both practitioners, and those in training.

To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.

To support workforce development through supervision, appraisal, and ongoing professional development.

Promote monitor and maintain best practice in health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.

Work with the Team Manager to develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.

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

Most importantly, you will be compassionate, motivated, and values-driven, with the ability to create a supportive environment for both staff and the people who use our services.