Band 7 Senior Recovery Practitioner - Bristol

Job summary

A really exciting and career enhancing opportunity has arisen within the North Bristol Recovery Service for a secondment position to a Band 7 Senior Practitioner. This is a fulltime position working from Monday to Friday.

We are looking for an experienced, pro-active, dynamic and progressive individual, who has excellent communication and leadership skills, and has a professional qualification in either Nursing, Occupational Therapy or Social Work. You will require a high standard of organisational skills, the ability to understand the service and how to make changes for the better, embedding quality improvements, and to implement these changes in a sensitive and evidenced based way.

You will be able to ensure that robust support and supervision is in place for all staff, and to focus on our duty commitments, the duty rota, and also taking a lead with managing expectations around referrals to the Recovery Service. This will involve liaising and communicating effectively with other teams and services and having a thorough oversight of our current waiting list. This role would suit someone with tenacity and diplomacy, and who is self-motivated. The role will also include a small caseload involving more complex Service Users, and also the ability to be able to undertake assessments/visits/reviews where indicated to support the team.

Main duties of the job

There would also be an expectation to act up when the Team Manager is not available/on leave, and an understanding of both health and social care would be really desirable as we are an integrated team, and we work closely with our Local Authority Colleagues. You would receive direct support from the Recovery Team Manager, our other Senior Practitioner, and the Community Services Manager.

We hold regular meetings, and we are all committed to ensuring that our Bristol Recovery Service continues to make changes for the better. The team itself is cohesive, supportive and hard-working, and a good sense of humour is a very desirable asset! We would be open to a candidate with a creative mind, who would be really committed to working with the team to strive for excellence.

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

08 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

342-BR144-0925

Job locations

Greenway Centre

Doncaster Road

Bristol

BS10 5PY