Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner Trainee

2 weeks ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This new work-based training role will increase diversity in our adult mental health workforce and provides an opportunity to deliver patient facing care whilst developing a career in the NHS. During your training phase, you will be undertaking a University programme with the University of Essex while working as part of the CALT team to develop the clinical skills and competencies essential to the role.

CALT provides high quality care to people aged 17 and above, who are experiencing severe mental health difficulties. The service operates friendly and well established multi-disciplinary teams with a wide range of professionals contributing to the excellent care of the people that we support.

You will work as part of a team of a multi-disciplinary team in the adult locality teams across the South of Cambridgeshire. The team place an emphasis on providing formulation-driven evidence-based interventions.

**The role will include two key functions**:
To work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment. The care co-ordinator function of the role will be a requirement of the qualified position.

To deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.

The post-holder will attend all elements of the programme of study and progress successfully through assessments of practice competence. During the remainder of the week, the post-holder will work as a trainee in the service, under supervision of their supervisors. They will work within the limits of their experience and assessed competence for their stage of training.

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- 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 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 work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to support the co-ordination of care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment. There will be a care co-ordinator function to the role on qualification.
- To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users
- 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 user’s wishes.
- 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 in order 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.

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