• Job Description

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  Job summary

  The South Glos. Recovery Team North is looking for a Specialist Recovery Nurse Practitioner to join our supportive and friendly team. The team is based in Thornbury, with a geographical area covering the South Glos. area, including Yate, Patchway and other suburban areas. This is a wide geographical area with limited access to public transport.

  The post offers the opportunity to develop your skills with new training in Structured Clinical Management (SCM), with a supervision programme in place to support staff.

  The role entails Key Workers holding a caseload of service users under secondary mental health services and the coordination and delivery of evidence-based interventions. This includes commissioning packages under the Care Act.

  Main duties of the job

  We would welcome applications from qualified nurses with experience of working with people with acute and enduring mental health needs. We are keen to appoint nurses to the team to share their specific skills and expertise. If you are looking to further your community experience, we would love to hear from you.

  We will consider recently qualified nurses who have completed their preceptorship.

  Your main duties will include:

  • Key working a varied caseload, including a range of presentations and diagnoses

  • Key working service users throughout their recovery, including stepping up and down care when needed

  • Covering duty and duty nurse responsibilities

  • Working as an intervention-based service, identifying service user needs and how they can meet their goals

  • Supporting the running of the clinic and medication management

  • Working closely with other services, including social worker colleagues, the Intensive Support Team (IST), Psychological Therapy Service (PTS) and the Primary Care Liaison Team (PCLS)

  • Contributing your expertise within the MDT

  Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities

  About us

  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.

  Details

  Date posted

  03 February 2026

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £38,682 to £46,580 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  342-SGLOS006-0226

  Job locations

  The Elms

  Thornbury

  Bristol

  BS351DG

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Key Result Areas

  1. To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing, comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings. This will include: a. The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV b. 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

  2. To be responsible for developing, delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.

  3. To act as care coordinator for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.

  Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Key Result Areas

  1. To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing, comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings. This will include: a. The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV b. 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

  2. To be responsible for developing, delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.

  3. To act as care coordinator for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.

  Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities

  Person Specification

  Evidence of experience

  Essential

  • Qualification to a relevant professional body (NMC)
  • Mental health experience in any setting

  Desirable

  • Additional Therapy Qualification such as SCM, CBT, CBTp
  • Student mentoring experience
  • Experience in Recovery Team

  Person Specification

  Evidence of experience

  Essential

  • Qualification to a relevant professional body (NMC)
  • Mental health experience in any setting

  Desirable

  • Additional Therapy Qualification such as SCM, CBT, CBTp
  • Student mentoring experience
  • Experience in Recovery Team

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

  Address

  The Elms

  Thornbury

  Bristol

  BS351DG

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

  Address

  The Elms

  Thornbury

  Bristol

  BS351DG

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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