Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner/Assistant Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area: Adult Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Secondment: 3 months
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 334-CLI-6871231
Site: Lambeth Adult Mental Health Services
Town: London
Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 per annum Incl. of inner HCAs
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/01/2025 23:59
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to providing high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job Overview
We are looking for highly motivated individuals to join our adult mental health services. The post would be suitable for qualified Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (or an assistant psychologist). This is an exciting new development for this role created by NHS England to support the transformation of adult mental health care. This role will contribute to ensuring adults with acute presentations of severe mental health problems receive trauma-informed care and have greater access to psychologically informed interventions.
Main Duties of the Job
You will be expected to work under supervision as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting adults to receive the right care. You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with adults with severe mental health problems, across the MDT and employing wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions for serious mental health problems for adults individually and in groups, as well as supporting their families and carers.
Working for Our Organisation
The second largest inner London Borough with an official population of around 350,000. The local population has needs related to a high level of social deprivation such as unemployment, poor social housing and child poverty. There are also pockets of greater affluence. There are high levels of morbidity, and levels and complexity of mental health problems are above the national average.
Lambeth Community Mental Health Teams comprise three Living Well Centres in Brixton and Streatham; Lambeth Hospital comprises five acute wards, a psychiatric intensive care unit, and a rehabilitation ward.
The Trust: The South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust is part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) and is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, and some more specialist services to people from across the UK.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (or assistant psychologist) will:
* Work in a multidisciplinary mental health team
* Develop and practice psychologically-informed interventions under supervision, working directly and indirectly with adults
* Support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team
* Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver a set of brief wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions - not therapy - for example:
o Behavioural Activation and Graded Exposure using the “GOALS” programme
o Problem-solving
o Improving sleep
o Recognising and managing emotions
o Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
o Confidence building
o Support with medicines management
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner will be required to:
* Have successfully completed MHWP training or equivalent experience
* Have worked within a CMHT as a care-coordinator under supervision or equivalent experience
* Demonstrate the ability to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress, their families and carers
* Work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment.
* 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.
The post-holder will work under care management supervision from a suitably qualified professional to provide high-quality collaborative care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team. The post-holder will work under clinical skills supervision from an HCPC registered clinical/counselling psychologist, BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist or Senior MHWP to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions.
Person Specification
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) or equivalent degree and experience
Experience
* Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training (or by other means) with significant supervised practice
* Experience running groups/activities, team working, care planning, using supervision (team and psychological therapy)
Knowledge & Skills
* Ability and commitment to successfully build relationships and work with teams, individuals and families in line with role
* To manage complex communication, liaise and communicate appropriately including using technology, use supervision, and analyse/synthesise information from multiple sources
* To assess care needs and risk, and provide intervention under supervision, managing own workload and mindful of equity of access and relevant adjustments
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights.
Please note:
* All applications for this post will need to be made online
* Read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
* The closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
* Once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
* 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 London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
* We are a smoke-free Trust
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
The post-holder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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