Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner/Assistant Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (or assistant psychologist) will:

o work in a multidisciplinary mental health team

o develop and practice psychologically-informed interventions under supervision, working directly and indirectly with adults

o support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team

o work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver a set of brief wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions - not therapy - for example:

o Behavioural Activation and Graded Exposure using the GOALS programme

o Problem-solving

o Improving sleep

o Recognising and managing emotions

o Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating

o Confidence building

o Support with medicines management

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner will be required to:

o Have successfully completed MHWP training or equivalent experience

o Have worked within a CMHT as a care-co-ordinator under supervision or equivalent experience

o Demonstrate the ability to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress, their families and carers

o To work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment.

o To 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 post-holder will work under care management supervision from a suitably qualified professional to provide high quality collaborative care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team. The post-holder will work under clinical skills supervision from an HCPC registered clinical / counselling psychologist, BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist or Senior MHWP to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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 equivalent degree and experience A)

Experience

Essential

• oExperience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training (or by other means) with significant supervised practice (A/I)
• oExperience running groups/activities, team working, care planning, using supervision (team and psychological therapy)

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Ability and commitment to successfully build relationships and work with teams, individuals and families in line with role
• To manage complex communication, liaise and communicate appropriately including using technology, use supervision, and analyse/synthesise information from multiple sources
• To assess care needs and risk, and provide intervention under supervision, managing own workload and mindful of equity of access and relevant adjustments

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Lambeth Adult Mental Health Services

108 Landor Road

London

SW9 6AA

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)