Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

• Provide psychologically informed interventions aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, including: behavioural activation; graded exposure; problem solving skills; recognising and managing emotions; improving sleep; building confidence and other interventions you are trained in.
• Assess suitability for these interventions
• Risk assess and plan care collaboratively with service users
• Set collaborative goals for intervention with service users
• Implement pre and post outcome measures with service users
• Form professional relationships and relate to service users in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture
• Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances
• Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills
• When appropriate, take on the role of lead practitioner for the client when work is being completed
• Regularly attend clinical supervision with a qualified psychological professional
• Work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment.
• Exercise good personal time management, punctuality, reliable attendance and good organisational skills. Please start your 'supporting information' by copying and pasting and then answering the following question:

• PG Cert or Cert Grad in Mental Health Wellbeing Practice
• Experience of delivering psychologically informed interventions using CBT principles to those with severe and enduring mental health problems
• Experience of working well within a multidisciplinary NHS Team
• Experience of delivering goal focused, short-term, time-limited interventions.
• Experience of promoting wellbeing and social inclusion.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusting and productive relationships with a colleagues and service users
• A good understanding of mental health issues and using psychological thinking to understand peoples' needs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to tailor them to a variety of audiences
• The ability to work independently and think quickly in challenging situations
• The creativity to solve problems and tackle obstacles in new ways
• Effective time management skills to juggle competing demands in a busy work environmentPlease get in touch if you would like an informal conversation about the post or a visit to the Bedale Centre.Please note, we reserve the right to close the application early should we receive high volumes of applications.

• Career Development: Engage in professional supervision, ongoing training, and opportunities for CPD and career growth within our Trust.
• Benefits: Enjoy an excellent NHS pension, generous holiday entitlement, access to NHS discount schemes and psychological support from our wellbeing team.
• Inclusive Environment: We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, ensuring that everyone can belong and thrive in their career with us.

Essential

• 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 post graduate certificate achieved via the Graduate Mental Health Practitioner training plus the additional certified MHWP training modules.
• Registered as a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner on a professional register recognised for this role by NHS England

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