Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

• Develop and practice psychologically informed interventions under supervision, working directly with adults in the community
• 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: 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
• 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 set collaborative goals for intervention with service users

• 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 and 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
• 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
• Liaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users
• Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual's 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 team's understanding and formulation of service users' difficulties and development of a multidisciplinary care plan
• Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs
• Able to prioritise workload according to peoples' changing needs and the priorities of the team
• Able to assist in maintaining own and others health safety and security
• To be able to use basic computer skills to collect, collate and report on client's progress on a daily basis
• 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
• Experience of considering the impact of public health within an individual's care
• Experience in discussing and responding to issues related to cultural diversity, intersectionality and inclusivity, including working with vulnerable groups (e.g. those for whom English is not their first language)
• Experience of managing multiple demands/ working in challenging environments
• Awareness of systemic barriers to accessing psychological services/healthcare for minoritised communities
• Awareness of the relationship between social, economic and environmental factors and mental health

Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties