Mental Health and Well-Being Practitioner

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity within the Durham Resilience Team for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWBP).

The County Durham Resilience Team is a multi-agency partnership providing accessible wellbeing and mental health support to individuals and families across County Durham. Working as part of the County Durham Community Mental Health Transformation Programme, we are committed to delivering person-centred, recovery-focused support within local communities.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner to join the team and deliver psychologically informed wellbeing interventions to people experiencing mental health difficulties. Working alongside service users, carers, partner organisations and multidisciplinary colleagues, you will support individuals to improve their wellbeing, achieve personal goals and maintain recovery.

The successful candidate will have either a graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health).

Main duties of the job

As a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will work under supervision of an Applied Psychologist as part of a dynamic integrated mental health team alongside our Pioneering Care Partnership colleagues. You will be delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting adults to receive the right care through care planning, including group work as directed by the wider team.

We work as part of a wider collaborative with the Pioneering Care Partnership delivering high quality care and support as early as possible to those who need it, making a definite shift form treatment to prevention.

We are committed to co-creating safe and personalised care that improves the lives of people by involving them as equal partners. The most important way we will get there is by living our values, all of the time.

Psychological Professions staff will be expected to display the Trust values at all times, working as part of the collective team with shared accountability and responsibility for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of patient care is delivered in a patient centred manner. They will also contribute to ensuring the culture of our services is built upon the Trust Values and the trust's strategy - Our Journey To change (OJTC).

We are committed to developing a team that is fully representative of the communities that we serve, and especially welcome applications from individuals with protected characteristics that are currently under-represented in our workforce.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

The postholder will carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team and any patients they work with.

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.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Additional contact details: Donna Sheavills, Team Manager -donna.sheavills@pcp.uk.net

This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

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.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.