Female* MINT Recovery Navigator


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£27,099 to £29,332 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Bristol, BS8 1SB
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	12 Oct 2026
Closing date:	26 Oct 2026

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Summary

To deliver mental health support and interventions to people in primary care. To work collaboratively with the client, GP, and other health and care professionals to ensure people with moderate-serious mental health needs are supported to connect to their community, to build resilience and to improve their wellbeing. To deliver support in a way that is tailored to the individuals cultural and social needs. Support the development of the MINT including testing new ways of providing integrated care to service users. Work as a core member of the MINT based in the locality hub alongside professionals from PCLS/Bristol Triage, Adult Social Care and AWP, and others to complete support conversations with clients referred into the MINT hub. Work closely with colleagues and build strong partnership working with other agencies such as GPs, Health and Social Care, other Voluntary and Community Services and taking initiative to share learning, new ideas and trends. To complete support conversations with the client. The support conversation is a simple intervention to assess what matters to a person with regard to their lie, support needs, goals, strengths, and desired outcomes whilst addressing their concerns. The conversation includes the Dialog tool that helps monitor outcomes. This tool can be revisited at any point but is essential at the start and completion of support. Attend and contribute in a positive and proactive way to daily handovers and Multi-Disciplinary Discussions (MDD) within the MINT Hub Identify, assess, contribute, maintain, provide feedback, and manage risk to ensure it is minimised. Work in a safe manner using a positive risk-taking approach, ensuring Health and Safety policies are implemented and fully observed, to ensure all safeguarding issues are responsibly managed. Have up-to-date safeguarding training and ensure that safeguarding policies and procedures are fully adhered to and that a Think Family approach is embedded within working practice. Work in a culturally sensitive way for all service users, challenging stigma, and discrimination, advocating for person if appropriate, and ensuring up-to-date community knowledge. Work with a range of needs e.g., from young people to older people, LGBTQ+ service users, disabled people and with people with a range of backgrounds and ethnicity. If you are providing direct support tailoring services to meet an individuals needs. To navigate the wider system which includes signposting or supporting the client to access support in relation to housing, debt advice, employment, family/relationship breakdown and domestic violence etc. Manage casework, documentation, and time effectively, ensuring up to date and clear record keeping in line with policies, making the best use of own supervision, reflective practice, training, and staff development. Ensure up to date and clear record keeping in line with policies. Co-ordinate support, referring and liaising effectively with all professionals, agencies and other parties involved in a service users support to deliver the support package. Ensure the service is delivered in a warm and welcoming way, demonstrating ambition and hope for all service users. Build trusting and collaborative relationships with service users. Carry out the role adhering to policies, procedures, values, code of conduct and current legislation using a recovery orientated, psychologically and trauma informed, equalities-based approach. Enable individuals to make informed decisions about their mental wellbeing, maximising their independence and providing an advocacy role where appropriate. Build trusting and collaborative relationship with the service user. Deliver and participate actively in supervision, formulation, and reflective practice spaces. Proactively seek advice and support from colleagues, managers, and other agencies as relevant. Promote and facilitate service user involvement and inclusion within the service and the community. Contribute to project work, development initiatives and implementation of policies and procedures with guidance from the management team. Provide feedback and data as requested to develop the service and effective joint working protocols with the MINT staff team. Collaborate with other team members (internal and external) to meet targets and promote effective communication and teamwork. Maintain hope and optimism for the individual with high expectations for recovery. Use lived experience (if appropriate) to positively support the individuals recovery. As the MINT develops there may be scope to provide support interventions for adults with mental health needs in their own communities which may include:- coordinate and provide medium to high level mental health support, as well as navigation through mental health services. provide appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with long term mental health needs enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, social care and wellbeing needs in line with personal recovery goals. Build a trusting and collaborative relationship with the client; demonstrating hope and courage. To support the client to utilise self-management tools to stay well e.g. Wellness Recovery Action Plan.

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