Mental Health Wellbeing PractitionerinStaffordinStaffordPUBLISHED THU 6 MAR 2025

Job Summary

Are you looking for a Mental Health role with a difference? Trainees will need to start university mid-April Our Drug and Alcohol service at Inclusion Staffordshire is looking for two Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWP) to join its friendly and professional team, to provide evidence-based interventions and plan care for adults with severe mental health problems. The team is innovative, forward thinking and committed to a Recovery focused approach that meets people's needs. The variety of the role will keep things fresh and stimulating and you will be part of a supportive team with effective management providing supervision and guidance.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to plan care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment, and 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.

Working under close case management supervision from a suitably qualified professional you will provide high quality collaborative care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team. To work under close clinical skills supervision from an HCPC registered practitioner psychologist or BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions.

About Us

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

Date posted

18 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

3IT-25-6992262

Job locations

Browning Street

Stafford

ST16 3AT

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person for full details. A summary is provided below:

• 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.
• Deliver psychologically informed evidence based interventions to a caseload of service users in the community
• 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 attend multi-disciplinary reviews for a caseload of service users liaising with the care co-ordinator to support and monitor progress.
  
  

• 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.
• Deliver psychologically informed evidence based interventions to a caseload of service users in the community
• 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 attend multi-disciplinary reviews for a caseload of service users liaising with the care co-ordinator to support and monitor progress.
  
  

• Degree or equivalent qualifications
  
  

• Degree/equivalent qualification in psychology or another health related subject [this is in addition to the essential requirement to simply have any degree/equivalent qualification]
  
  

• Experience working in prisons or another forensic environment
  
  

• Degree or equivalent qualifications
  
  

• Degree/equivalent qualification in psychology or another health related subject [this is in addition to the essential requirement to simply have any degree/equivalent qualification]
  
  

• Experience working in prisons or another forensic environment