Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner (NHS AfC: Band 5) - Adult Community - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – Lincoln, Lincolnshire
We have an exciting opportunity to recruit to a Band 5 MHWP within our Lincoln South Community Mental Health Team.
Lincoln’s Adult Community Mental Health Transformation Services is a committed, integrated service that strives to provide quality recovery-based support to people with severe and enduring mental health related difficulties.
The post holder would work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to coordinate 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.
The role of the MHWP includes providing person centred assessment, through risk assessment, collaboratively agreeing and coordinating a care plan and providing specific evidence-based treatment interventions alongside signposting to and supporting engagement with other professionals and agencies.
Close clinical skills supervision will be provided from an HCPC registered clinical psychologist or BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions.
The successful applicant will work within the multi-disciplinary team providing interventions and skills to support individuals to promote good mental health and recovery from severe mental health problems and will work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals within the team including registered nurses, psychiatrists, GP's, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, and Psychologists.
Develop and practice psychologically informed interventions, working directly with adults in the community.
Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver a set of brief wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions - for example:
1. Behavioural Activation and Graded exposure.
2. Problem solving.
3. Improving sleep.
4. Recognising and managing emotions.
5. Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating.
6. Confidence building.
7. Support with medicine management.
To be responsive to service users’ needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.
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.
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 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.
To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users.
To deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including:
1. Behavioural activation and graded exposure.
2. Teaching problem-solving skills.
3. Recognising and managing emotions.
4. Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating.
To be responsive to service users’ needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.
To include carers and families in line with the service user’s wishes.
To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.
To 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.
To deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families and carers.
To maintain own continuing professional development and use reflective practice to evaluate and update current practice.
Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Trust working in a trauma informed way, promoting social inclusion and challenging stigma.
Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role.
It is expected that all staff familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the local child protection and safeguarding procedures and the local multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant mandatory training and further training appropriate to their role.
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