Band 6 ARRS Mental Health Practitioner - Bristol

Give best practice advice and support in a broad range of conditions for people with both functional and organic mental health needs. Promote the needs of family and carer/s, including various support networks and third sector agencies. Advise and support on evaluating risk from a positive risk-taking perspective. Support and advise within safeguarding and public protection procedures where the issues are complicated by mental health problems, alongside Primary Care colleagues. Provide a prompt response to all contacts following jointly agreed procedures and within agreed time frames. Ensure, where needed, that people experience a seamless transfer into AWP provider/treatment services via trusted assessment processes. Following assessment, provide short- term follow up of patients where appropriate. Contribute evidence-based expertise to multi-disciplinary team processes. Promote positive attitudes, mutual understanding and collaboration between non-mental health staff and mental health services, users, carers, voluntary agencies, primary care and social services. Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of and providing, effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal. Adhere to the relevant professional code of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained. Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required. Develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of available feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify appropriate areas of development for this work role, taking responsibility for accessing identified learning and training opportunities. Maintain appropriate health record, in accordance with professional and organisational standards.