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Client:
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
York, United Kingdom
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Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
4
Posted:
28.03.2025
Expiry Date:
12.05.2025
Job Description:
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity in the central York community mental health team working with working age adults for a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work under close case management supervision from an HCPC registered applied psychologist or BABCP accredited CBT therapist to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions, with a level of autonomy matched to level of demonstrated competence and stage of training.
About us
We are the Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York & Selby. We are committed to co-creating safe and personalised care that improves the lives of people by involving them as equal partners. The most important way we will get there is by living our values, all of the time.
Psychological Professions staff will be expected to display the Trust values at all times, working as part of the collective team with shared accountability and responsibility for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of patient care is delivered in a patient centred manner. They will also contribute to ensuring the culture of our services is built upon the Trust Values and the trust's strategy - Our Journey To change (OJTC).
We are committed to developing a team that is fully representative of the communities that we serve, and especially welcome applications from individuals with protected characteristics that are currently under-represented in our workforce.
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
346-NYA-055-25
Job locations
Huntington House, Jockey Lane, York, YO32 9XW
Job responsibilities
The role of the Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner is to:
1. Develop and practice psychologically informed interventions under supervision, working directly with adults in the community.
2. Support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
3. Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver a set of brief wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions including:
* Behavioural Activation and Graded Exposure using the GOALS programme
* Problem-solving
* Improving sleep
* Recognising and managing emotions
* Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
* Confidence building
* Support with medicines management
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. Set collaborative goals for intervention with service users.
Qualifications
Essential
* Either a graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health).
Knowledge
Essential
* Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice.
* Experience of having had clinical and management supervision.
Skills
Essential
* Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format.
* Ability to liaise with others, both internally and externally as required for the wellbeing of the service user.
* To assist in assessment, risk assessment and multi-disciplinary care plan.
* Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically-informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs.
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