Older Persons Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

5 days ago


Gateshead, United Kingdom Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The opportunity comes as part of our strategy to redesign our offer to the older population of Gateshead who experience severe mental health difficulties, and ensures that we are able to deliver evidence based care. It is an exciting time to join the service.
You will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to work alongside service users, families and carers to deliver focused psychologically informed interventions with a commitment to promoting recovery and wellbeing, while maximising independence for the individual.
Work as part of the multidisciplinary team with service users, families, carers to support collaborative decision making about care and treatment.
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.
Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that high quality individualised care is delivered which ensures safety and a commitment to promoting recovery and wellbeing, and maximising independence.
Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity.
Work within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.
Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
Qualification from a BPS accredited MHWP Programme.
Possess an ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
Be computer literate.
Demonstrate evidence of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem, including severe mental health problems.
Be aware of and keep up to date with advances in the various treatments for mental health problems.
Ensure clear objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior Clinical Supervisors on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development.
Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.
Attend relevant conferences/workshops in line with identified professional objectives



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