Mental Health and Well-Being Practitioner

The post holder will work under supervision from an HCPC registered applied psychologist to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions, with a level of autonomy matched to level of experience. The role of the Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner is to develop and practice psychologically-informed interventions under supervision, working directly with adults in the community . You will support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team. You will 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 programmeProblem-solvingImproving sleepRecognising and managing emotionsGuided self-help for bulimia and binge-eatingConfidence buildingSupport with medicines management In addition to this, the postholder will carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team. You will engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances. You will engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation. You will 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. You will 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. You will set collaborative goals for intervention with service users Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying. This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.