Band 6 Specialist Intensive Practitioner - Devizes

Job summary

We are looking to recruit a Band 6 Specialist Practitioner to join our team. We welcome applications from motivated and enthusiastic individuals seeking a new challenge in an ever-evolving service. Whether you're transitioning from an inpatient setting to community care, or you're a Band 5 clinician ready to step into a specialist role, we would love to hear from you.

Our team offers an excellent developmental support package for those stepping up from Band 5 to Band 6. NWIS is a fantastic place to work, providing opportunities to develop both clinical and leadership skills--skills that may be harder to gain in other roles due to the fast-paced and high-acuity nature of our service.

NOTE: This post is open to newly qualified social workers. In line with AWP Trust policy, all newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of the advertised role banding. All NQSWs are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within two years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances--in which case it may be extended for a further two years.

If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role, this will be an automatic progression following confirmation of your successful ASYE completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 post, you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy upon successful ASYE completion.

Main duties of the job

The Band 6 clinician will work shifts including evenings and weekends, but we are pleased to confirm that night shifts are no longer required. Our service now operates between 07:30 and 22:00, and we support flexible working arrangements, including the ability to request specific shifts. We welcome full-time and part-time applications and are happy to consider flexible working agreements.

The Band 6 will have a role leading the team.

Within this role they may:

• Triage referrals to the service and make recommendations.
• Complete holistic psychosocial assessments within the community.
• Complete gatekeeping assessments to facilitate admission when home treatment is not felt to be a viable / safe option.
• Attend Mental Health Act assessments on Bluebell Place of Safety, and formulate home treatment plans if home treatment is indicated.
• Implement Risk Management and Care Plans for the effective home treatment of Service Users utilising least restrictive practice at every opportunity.
• Support with medication management and concordance within community.
• Provide telephone support to service users who ring in during times of crisis.
• Provide supervision to Band 4 colleagues.

There will be a comprehensive induction to the role and a supported period of supernumerary to aid with transition.

Please see attached Job Description file 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 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

342-WTS221-1125

Job locations

Green Lane Hospital

Marshall Road

Devizes

SN10 5DS

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. In a wide range of situations and locations to undertake the full range of activities required to deliver comprehensive mental health assessment, in an emergency for service users, who may be distressed and in crisis.

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 as appropriate, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.

4. To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process, in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads. This might include:

a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention

b. psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions

c. Psychosocial interventions

d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies

e. Medication management

f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act

5. To 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.

6. To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.

7. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.

8. 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 strengthsand aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.

9. To be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. In a wide range of situations and locations to undertake the full range of activities required to deliver comprehensive mental health assessment, in an emergency for service users, who may be distressed and in crisis.

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 as appropriate, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.

4. To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process, in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads. This might include:

a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention

b. psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions

c. Psychosocial interventions

d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies

e. Medication management

f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act

5. To 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.

6. To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.

7. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.

8. 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 strengthsand aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.

9. To be responsible for maintaining own workload, as well as planning the workload of others, on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, utilising electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Practitioner - Nurse, Occupational Therapist (OT), or Social Worker - with up-to-date registration. Holding a Diploma or Degree in a relevant health or social care profession, e.g., RMN, OT, or Social Worker.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrates substantial post-registration experience, gained through working in a range of frontline adult mental health services, including undertaking assessments and delivering interventions.
• Demonstrates a developed understanding of recovery principles and the role of secondary mental health services in the delivery of care.
• Awareness of the importance of working with and engaging carers.
• Demonstrates substantial experience and holds a relevant professional practice qualification in mentoring and assessing students and learners.
• Demonstrates substantial experience and a relevant professional practice qualification in mentoring and assessing students and learners

Desirable

• Relevant post-registration qualifications, such as Thorn, Non Medical Prescribing, CBT, AMHP, Brief Interventions.
• Experience gained in a wide variety of settings
• Experience leading shifts

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Practitioner - Nurse, Occupational Therapist (OT), or Social Worker - with up-to-date registration. Holding a Diploma or Degree in a relevant health or social care profession, e.g., RMN, OT, or Social Worker.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrates substantial post-registration experience, gained through working in a range of frontline adult mental health services, including undertaking assessments and delivering interventions.
• Demonstrates a developed understanding of recovery principles and the role of secondary mental health services in the delivery of care.
• Awareness of the importance of working with and engaging carers.
• Demonstrates substantial experience and holds a relevant professional practice qualification in mentoring and assessing students and learners.
• Demonstrates substantial experience and a relevant professional practice qualification in mentoring and assessing students and learners

Desirable

• Relevant post-registration qualifications, such as Thorn, Non Medical Prescribing, CBT, AMHP, Brief Interventions.
• Experience gained in a wide variety of settings
• Experience leading shifts

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

Green Lane Hospital

Marshall Road

Devizes

SN10 5DS

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

Green Lane Hospital

Marshall Road

Devizes

SN10 5DS

Employer's website

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