Adult Facing Mental Health Practitioner

6 days ago

Bicester, United Kingdom Oxfordshire Mind Full time

**ADULT FACING MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER**

**Hours**: 18.5 Hours Per Week Part Time (Flexible Working Options Available)

**Salary**: £25,000-£26,906 Pro rata. Salary dependent on skills, experience and knowledge.

**Contract**: Fixed Term 12 Months

**Base**: Bicester

**Who we are, and what we do**
- We’re Oxfordshire Mind, the mental health charity, operating across Oxfordshire and Berkshire West.
- Our passionate employees and dedicated volunteers are helping people with mental health issues find somewhere to turn for advice, information, and support.
- We won’t give up until everyone experiencing a mental health issue gets both support and respect.

**Why work for us?**
- We offer a friendly working environment and are committed to staff wellbeing.
- We are devoted to equity, diversity, inclusion, and equality, with staff working groups and support groups.

**Here is a taste of what we offer**:

- Generous holiday allowance, 28 days plus 8 bank holidays, increasing after 5 years
- Contribute to pension scheme
- Flexible working including; hybrid working, part time, compressed hours
- Ensuring growth and development of our staff along their career journey
- Free support package from Health Assured for you and your family
- Great discounts and cash back card schemes

**What will you do?**

Your role will be to engage with parent/carers who require time-limited support with their mental health and wellbeing needs. As part of the multi-disciplinary Family Solution Plus team you will promote early engagement and aim to de-escalate families in terms of social care intervention.

The AFP will take a holistic and person-centred approach to supporting adults to identify their strengths, set goals and support motivation to improve their mental health and wellbeing through a variety of interventions. By working alongside social care, substance misuse and domestic abuse colleagues you will also offer support to social workers and other professionals and be available for consultation and the mutual sharing of good practice between professionals.

Adult Facing Practitioners will provide one to one sessions to help and support parents with mental health issues that are impacting on their wellbeing and parenting capacity, working through a series of tools with parents to provide person centred, strategies and interventions.

**Key responsibilities**
- Support service users to improve or maintain their mental health and wellbeing by offering signposting support.
- Maintain accurate information on support and services available in Oxfordshire.
- Collect and accurately record service user data onto a secure database in a timely manner.
- Liaise with colleagues, partner organisations and professional agencies to support service user needs.
- Keep up to date with the various services offered by NHS and third sector providers to enable appropriate information and signposting.
- Conduct regular dynamic risk assessment and take appropriate and timely actions to manage the risks in relation to staff, service users and buildings.
- Undertake assessments of parents/carers mental health as part of home visits and appointments in the community.
- Maintain knowledge of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) and the identification and possible impact these could have on parenting capacity and mental health.
- Maintain effective professional relationships with the FSP framework staff.

We expect all our employees to:

- Understand and implement all safeguarding policies and procedures in relation to working with children, young people and adults at risk of harm
- Enhance equity, diversity, inclusion and equality within our work
- Involve people with lived experience of mental health problems in every aspect of our work
- Support and supervise volunteers and peer supporters as agreed with your line manager
- Attend regular meetings and supervision as required

This is not an exhaustive list and employees may be required to perform activities not listed here.

**Who you are**

Open - **Are you open to help people realise their potential?**

Together, partnership -** Are you a team player?**

Responsive - **Are you a good listener?**

Independent - **Do you have the confidence to speak out fearlessly?**

Unstoppable - **Do you have a positive, never give up attitude?**

If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you

**Applicants should respond explicitly to each of the points listed in the Person Specification / Selection Criteria below. The shortlisting panel make their decisions based on this information and no assumptions about your skills or experience will be made.**

**Essential Experience**

a) Knowledge and understanding of mental health issues, and the needs of people living with mental health problems

b) An understanding of good practice in safeguarding Children and Adults

c) Experience of working within mental health, wellbeing, or similar environments

d) Experience of working in a demanding environment

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