Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Bristol
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This is a substantive Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner role within the Learning Disability Service in Sirona, employed by AWP. The post holder will coordinate CPA, manage a caseload of clients with complex presentations, and provide mental health advice to the Community Learning Disability Team. The role involves working across the Bristol area, supporting service users with learning disabilities and co-occurring mental health conditions, and liaising with mainstream services to ensure reasonable adjustments. You will also monitor psychotropic medication effects with consultant psychiatrists and deliver interventions to promote recovery.
Essential criteria
- Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, OT, Social Worker
- Demonstrates substantial post-registration experience gained working in a range of front-line adult mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering interventions
- Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC and commitment to CPD.
- Demonstrates a developed understanding of the recovery principles, and the role of secondary mental health services in the delivery of care
- Demonstrates substantial experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies
Desirable criteria
- Experience gained in a wide variety of settings
- Relevant post-registration qualifications, such as Thorn, Non Medical Prescribing, CBT, AMHP, Brief Interventions etc
- Education/Experience/Skills
- Diploma level/Degree in relevant health/social care profession, eg RMN, OT, Social Worker
- Demonstrates substantial post-registration experience gained working in a range of front-line adult mental health services, undertaking assessment and delivering interventions
- Current relevant registration with the NMC or HCPC and commitment to CPD.
- Demonstrates a developed understanding of the recovery principles, and the role of secondary mental health services in the delivery of care
- Demonstrates substantial experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies
- Experience gained in a wide variety of settings
- Relevant post-registration qualifications, such as Thorn, Non Medical Prescribing, CBT, AMHP, Brief Interventions etc
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 6 Specialist Recovery Practitioner - Bristol
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
We are looking for a substantive Band 6 registered professional Mental Health professional to be part of the Learning Disability Service in Sirona. The post holder will be employed by AWP and receive management supervision within AWP but be on an honorary contract for Sirona and fully embedded into the Sirona service
Your role will involve CPA co-ordination, holding a caseload of clients who may have complex presentations, providing consultation and mental health advice to members of the wider Community Learning Disability Team and mainstream services.
You will work mainly across the Bristol area and will work with service users in a variety of settings. Some travel to further locations may be required to attend CPA / CTR meetings and support the timely discharge of service users in out of area hospital placements in accordance with the Transforming Care agenda.
The ideal candidate will have the ability to understand how mental illness in people with Learning Disabilities may be different from a mainstream presentation. The ability to implement "reasonable adjustments" in the assessment, planning and delivery of mental health care is an essential part of this role.
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