Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area: Integrated Recovery Hub
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 294-COMM-7071158-JB
Site: Tolworth Hospital
Town: Surbiton
Salary: £34,521 - £41,956 per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/03/2025 23:59
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are looking for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join the South Kingston Integrated Recovery Hub (IRH). The South Kingston IRH provides secondary mental health care for adults experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties.
We are preparing to implement the trust’s community transformation plans in line with the Community Mental Health Framework, to improve access and provision for clients with severe mental health difficulties. In doing so, we will be strengthening relationships with primary care and developing new links with the voluntary sector.
This is an exciting opportunity for an MHWP graduate 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.
Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:
We are a teaching Trust so will support your continued professional growth throughout your career with us.
Main duties of the job
1. Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team.
2. Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.
3. Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Set collaborative goals for intervention with service users.
7. Be responsive to service users’ needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.
8. Include carers and families in line with the service user’s wishes.
9. Liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.
10. 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.
11. Deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families and carers.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
* A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health).
* Any training relevant to the service user group.
Experience
* 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 of a team.
* Experience of being supervised.
* Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing.
* Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties.
Knowledge & Skills
* Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers.
* Able 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 communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance.
* Commitment to team working and ability to work successfully in a team.
* Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format.
* Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health.
At South West London St Georges Mental Health Trust we are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Committed Employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics.
We are committed to supporting the Armed Forces Community and have signed the Armed Forces Covenant.
We provide reasonable adjustments to the interview process for any candidates with a disability.
Please note:
* The closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received.
* Once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system.
* Should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful.
* Priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
* Should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
* Your employment is offered subject to successful completion of a Probationary Period depending on your Band (except medical roles).
* We are a smoke-free Trust.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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