Mental Health and Well-Being Practitioner

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity within the newly combined Harrogate & Ripon Community Treatment Team for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWBP).

The successful candidate will have either a graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health).

This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Main duties of the job

As a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will work under supervision of an Applied Psychologist as part of a dynamic mental health team delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting adults to receive the right care through care planning. You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with adults with severe mental health problems.

About us

We are the Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York & Selby.

We are committed to co-creating safe and personalised care that improves the lives of people by involving them as equal partners. The most important way we will get there is by living our values, all of the time.

Psychological Professions staff will be expected to display the Trust values at all times, working as part of the collective team with shared accountability and responsibility for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of patient care is delivered in a patient centred manner. They will also contribute to ensuring the culture of our services is built upon the Trust Values and the trust's strategy - Our Journey To change (OJTC).

We're also committed to co-creating a great experience for our colleagues- find out more about why you should come and work for us here Why choose TEWV? - Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust

We are committed to developing a team that is fully representative of the communities that we serve, and especially welcome applications from individuals with protected characteristics that are currently under-represented in our workforce.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work under supervision from an HCPC registered applied psychologist to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions, with a level of autonomy matched to level of experience.

The role of the Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner is to develop and practice psychologically-informed interventions under supervision, working directly with adults in the community . You will support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

You will work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver a set of brief wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions :Behavioural Activation and Graded Exposure using the GOALS programmeProblem-solvingImproving sleepRecognising and managing emotionsGuided self-help for bulimia and binge-eatingConfidence buildingSupport with medicines management

In addition to this, the postholder will carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team.

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

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

You will 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.

You will attend multi-disciplinary reviews and act as a care co-ordinator, for a caseload of service users in order to support and monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.

You will set collaborative goals for intervention with service users

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.

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)

Knowledge/Skills/Experience

Essential

• Knowledge and 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 o a team.
• Experience of being supervised
• Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
• Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who ar e cognitively impaired, their families and carers
• A ble 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 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
• Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual's health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan
• Able to contribute to risk assessment drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, under clinical supervision
• Able to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the team's understanding and formulation of service users' difficulties and development of a multidisciplinary care plan
• Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs
• Able to prioritise workload according to peoples' changing needs and the priorities of the team
• Able to assist in maintaining own and others health safety and security.
• To be able to use basic computer skills to collect, collate and report on client's progress on a daily basis.
• Able to plan and deliver interventions with a variety of service users presenting with mental health difficulties, their families and carers and the clinical team, on a daily basis
• Experience of considering the impact of public health within an individual's care
• Experience in discussing and responding to issues related to cultural diversity, intersectionality and inclusivity, including working with vulnerable groups (e.g. those for whom English is not their first language).
• Experience of managing multiple demands/ working in challenging environments
• Awareness of systemic barriers to accessing psychological services/healthcare for minoritised communities
• Awareness of the relationship between social, economic and environmental factors and mental health

Desirable

• Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties

Personal Attributes

Essential

• High level of enthusiasm and motivation
• Capable of independent travel to locations throughout the organisation
• Able to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Able to work under pressure
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
• Able to be self-reflective
• Able to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
• Able to deal directly with distressing or emotional circumstances when they arise
• when they arise. Able to concentrate on specific activities for up to an hour at a time
• Able to deal with conflicting demands in an unpredictable work pattern
• Able to work flexibly and adapt to each person as appropriate to their needs in a variety of settings

Desirable

• Fluent in languages other than English