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.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
Our Trust Values Are
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tayla Weaver Job title: Team Leader Email address: tayla.weaver@nhs.net Telephone number: 07971 639516
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Mental Health Care
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