As a qualified professional, you'll bring your expertise—whether a Level 6 graduate or a Level 7 postgraduate—into a supportive environment where your contributions truly matter. You will assess risks, promote positive wellbeing, and help clients navigate their emotional landscapes with understanding and compassion. This role offers the chance to develop impactful strategies such as behavioural activation, guided self-help and confidence building, all while being guided by experienced clinicians. If you're passionate about fostering resilience and empowering individuals, this is your opportunity to shine. Become a pivotal part of a team that values dignity, respect, and collaborative care in an enriching setting. Your journey in mental health wellbeing starts here!
An exciting opportunity for a qualified mental health wellbeing practitioner to be at the forefront in delivering the therapeutic provision offered within primary care, to meet the needs of the local population, in collaboration with other psychological practitioners and operational leads.
The post-holder will provide psychological assessment, formulation and treatment to clients with moderately complex mental health disorders within the service. This will include developing and facilitating group based interventions.
The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures
The successful candidate will:
- hold a graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)
- work closely with colleagues in a multi-disciplinary team to deliver interventions for our service users
- carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team
- engage with and gather information from service users, relatives, and patient records to develop a formulation
- 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.
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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 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 users wishes.
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 attend multi-disciplinary reviews and act as named worker, for a caseload of service users to support and monitor progress during multi-disciplinary interventions.
To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users
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 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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