Mental Health Practitioner Band 6

3 weeks ago


Preston, United Kingdom Axis Full time

**Job description **of a **Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP)**:

- Provide evidence-based interventions and co-ordinate care plans for adults with severe mental health problems.
- Deliver effective wellbeing interventions to help people recover and improve their lives.
- Spend much of your time seeing adult patients who have been referred by GPs and other local services and deciding on the best support for them.
- Provide psychological interventions around:

- Behavioural activation and graded exposure using the GOALS programme
- Problem solving
- Improving sleep
- Recognising and managing emotions
- Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
- Confidence building
- Managing medicines
- Work as part of a wider multidisciplinary team to promote good mental health and recovery from severe mental health problems.
- Must-have skills include:

- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusting and productive relationships with a range of people
- The ability to work well within a multidisciplinary team
- A good understanding of mental health issues
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to tailor them to a variety of audiences
- The ability to work independently and think quickly in often challenging situations
- The creativity to solve problems and tackle obstacles in new ways
- Effective time management skills to juggle competing demands in a busy and sometimes pressured work environment
- The MHWP training programme is open to people who can display an aptitude for working collaboratively and willingness to learn about working in a mental health team.



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