B5 - Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner - S Glos

Job overview

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with an interest and commitment in supporting older people living with complex mental health conditions to join our Later Life Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) as a Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner. This is an exciting role created by Health Education England and NHS England and Improvement to support the transformation of adult community mental health services. Your training will be fully funded, and you will be eligible for a full-time qualified position if you pass the course. In return, we ask that you commit to staying with us for at least two years after you qualify.

Our team is based at the Kingswood Civic Centre, South Gloucestershire, which borders Bristol, and has good links to Bath, The Cotswolds and Wales. The Later Life CMHT is located alongside the Later Life Therapies, Specialist Care Home and Enhanced Dementia Support Team and Psychological Therapies Service. The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and have the opportunity to work alongside mental health nurses, clinical psychologists, psychological therapists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and support staff.

Main duties of the job

This is a training role and the post-holder will be enrolled in an accredited graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training via the University of Exeter (some onsite training days will be required) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners.

The post-holder will attend all elements of the programme of study and progress successfully through assessments of competence and attainment. In the remaining part of the week they will work as a trainee in the service, under close supervision and regular course assessment of practice competence.

They will work within the limits of their experience and assessed competence for their stage of training to:

• To support people with severe mental health problems, their families and carers with collaborative care planning / decision-making about patient care and treatment;
• To deliver low-intensity CBT informed, evidence-based psychological interventions such as behavioural activation, graded exposure, problem-solving, improving sleep, recognising and managing emotions, guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating, building confidence, and relapse prevention work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

• Undertake relevant safety assessment and planning 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 focussed on strengths and are outcome based.
• To attend multi-disciplinary reviews and act as a keyworker, 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 well-being-focussed, psychologically informed interventions, in line with the best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT Therapist including:
• Behavioural activation
• Graded exposure
• Problem-solving
• Improving sleep
• Recognising and managing emotions
• Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
• Building confidence
• Relapse prevention work ·