Qualified Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Bishop's Stortford Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity for a qualified mental health wellbeing practitioner to be at the forefront in delivering the therapeutic provision offered within primary care, to meet the needs of the local population, in collaboration with other psychological practitioners and operational leads.

The post-holder will provide psychological assessment, formulation and treatment to clients with moderately complex mental health disorders within the service. This will include developing and facilitating group based interventions.

The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

  • hold a graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)
  • work closely with colleagues in a multi-disciplinary team to deliver interventions for our service users
  • carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team
  • engage with and gather information from service users, relatives, and patient records to develop a formulation
  • work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission , and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout.

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.

To deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including:

  • Behavioural activation and graded exposure
  • Teaching problem-solving skills
  • Improving sleep
  • Recognising and managing emotions
  • Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
  • Building confidence
  • Medication support

To be responsive to service users needs and choices and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.

To include carers and families in line with the service users wishes.

Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team

Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.

Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives, and patient records to develop a formulation.

To attend multi-disciplinary reviews and act as named worker, for a caseload of service users to support and monitor progress during multi-disciplinary interventions.

To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users

To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.

To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation, and care plans of service users in a skilled and sensitive manner to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients.

To develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention

To deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families, and carers .

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential


  • A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)

Experience

Essential


  • Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice
  • Experience running groups/activities
  • Experience working as part of a team
  • Experience of being supervised
  • Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing

Desirable


  • Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties

Skills

Essential


  • Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers
  • Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality.
  • Able to communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance.
  • Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
  • Liaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Oxford House, London Road, Bishops Stortford, CM23 3LA

London Road

Bishops Stortford

CM233LA

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