Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

Job summary 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 strive 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 co - ordinate 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.
Main duties of the job 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.
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.
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: Behavioural Activation and Graded exposure.
Problem solving Improving sleep Recognising and managing emotions Guided self-help for bulimia and binge - eating Confidence building Support with medicine management To be responsive to service users' needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.
About us Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.
Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England.
We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce.
This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall.
In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.
We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.
We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
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Job description Job responsibilities 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: Behavioural activation and graded exposure Teaching problem-solving skills Improving sleep Recognising and managing emotions Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating Building confidence Medication support 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 users 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 develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention To deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families and carers.
To maintain own continuing professionals 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.
You may occasionally be asked to undertake such other duties that are deemed necessary in order to support business continuity within the Trust.
This will only include tasks where you are appropriately trained.
All staff are required to: Abide by the standards of behaviour expected by their professional registering body and the standards of behaviour expected of all staff in the Trust disciplinary policy and procedure.
Adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and be responsible for making themselves aware of these policies and procedures.
Treat information relating to service users, employees, and businesses of the Trust in the strictest confidence.
Under no circumstances should such information be discussed with any unauthorised person(s) or organisations.
At all times employees are required to comply with the provisions of the Data Protection Act.
Maintain their own awareness of, and comply with, policies and procedures relating to Health and Safety (whether statutory or Trust) and assist in ensuring the compliance of other staff.
Support the Trusts visions and values and in particular the promotion of a positive approach to diversity, equality, rights, and treating others with dignity and respect; to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage in service delivery and employment, and to manage, support or comply by adhering to the Trusts Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policies.
Demonstrate the core principles of safeguarding and protection Human Rights, treating people with dignity, fairness, equality, respect and autonomy.
Develop and maintain positive relationships with all colleagues, taking account of their age, religion or belief, ethnicity, sex, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or maternity status and any disability.
Ensure that they are approachable and that their conduct towards colleagues is open and honest, dealing with differences in opinion, in ways which avoid offence.
Take responsibility for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously, as does The Trust.
The Trust works with adult and childrens social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff with the knowledge and skills to recognise abuse and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people.
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.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential A graduate certificate (Level 6) or equivalent, delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health) Registered as a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner on a professional register recognised for this role by NHS England Desirable Postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health) Experience Essential 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 Desirable Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties Skills Essential 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.
Commitment to team working and ability to work successfully in a team Desirable Able to travel around the county independently and in a timely manner Special Requirements Essential To be able to travel independently without the use of public transport, throughout the county.
Ability to travel across sites in good time Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required