Job overview

An exciting new role has become available within the NEW CMHT, North and East Wiltshire.

We are a friendly, supportive team who are passionate about improving the lives of service users with complex mental health needs. We are a forward-thinking service and, for many years, have implemented a new way of working with service users with emotionally unstable/borderline personality disorders.

This is an evidence-based model of care called Structured Clinical Management. Successful applicants will be offered a three-day training package on how to deliver this model, along with specialised individual and group supervision.

As a keyworker in the team, you will be responsible for a caseload of service users with a range of complex mental health needs, working within 'Your Team, Your Conversation, Your Plan' framework to deliver a range of mental health interventions.

You can expect to receive excellent supervision, and there will be opportunities for career development and training to support you in this role.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for clinicians to work in a focused way, developing skills for an identified group of individuals on a non-psychotic pathway, improving the outcomes and experience for our service users and their carers.

The successful applicant will be responsible for the care coordination of a complex caseload of service users on the non-psychotic pathway.

The role will involve providing therapeutic interventions and linking in with other professionals to coordinate their input.

Main responsibilities: 

• Delivering interventions to a complex caseload of service users with complex emotional needs

• Multi-agency working

• Risk management

• Administration of medications

• Fulfilling the CMHT duty worker role on a rolling rot

Please see the attached job description file for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

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 (BANES), 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.