Education: A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health). Experience and Knowledge: 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. Skills: Communication/Relationship 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. 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. Analytical & Judgement skills Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individuals 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 teams understanding and formulation of service users difficulties and development of a multi-disciplinary care plan. Planning & Organisational skills Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically-informed interventions to meet peoples health and wellbeing needs. Able to prioritise workload according to peoples changing needs and the priorities of the team. People Management/Leadership/Resources Able to assist in maintaining own and others health safety and security. Monitor and maintain physical and/ or financial resources for a work area. IT skills To be able to use basic computer skills to collect, collate and report on clients progress on a daily basis. Physical skills Keyboard use. Fit to undertake any duties related to the role including physical interventions for the management of violence and aggression Mental Effort 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. 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. Emotional Effort Able to deal directly with distressing or emotional circumstances when they arise.