Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

Job overview

Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWP) are a new and exciting development in the NHS psychological workforce. Have you recently completed the PG Cert or Cert Grad to become a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner? Or are you currently undertaking the year long MHWP training? We are looking to employ a passionate Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner across three Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams (NMHT) within North West Sussex. You will work with a diverse group of professionals committed to providing evidence based care and high quality treatments to those with severe and complex mental health needs.

Why Join Us?

Within North West Sussex we have a proven track record of developing staff and are committed to your growth and career progression. We can support you towards being BABCP accredited as an MHWP and beyond. You will be part of an innovative multi-disciplinary team (MDT) that embraces the transformation and improvement of services. You will work closely with Psychology Profession colleagues and receive high standards of supervision. You will be part of a friendly and cohesive group of MHWP's with great connections to the wider MHWP community.  MHWP's are valued team members and play a key role in MDT working. Our service values compassionate care and promotes a psychologically safe work environment, ensuring that you feel appreciated and supported.

Main duties of the job

What you'll do:

• Provide clients with low intensity psychological interventions aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, including: behavioural activation; graded exposure; teaching problem solving skills; recognising and managing emotions; improving sleep; psycho-education; building confidence
• Assess the client's suitability for these interventions
• You will typically support service users for up to 6 sessions over a period of up to 4 months
• Risk assess and to 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 key worker for the service user
• Regularly attend clinical supervision with a qualified psychology professional
• Work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, and support collaborative decision-making about care and treatment.
• Exercise good personal time management, punctuality, reliable attendance and good organisational skills

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What are we looking for?

• PG Cert or Cert Grad in Mental Health Wellbeing Practice
• Experience of delivering low intensity psychologically informed work 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 work.
• Experience of promoting wellbeing and social inclusion.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusting and productive relationships with colleagues and service users
• A good understanding of mental health issues and ability to formulate psychologically around these
• 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 often challenging situations
• The creativity to solve problems and tackle obstacles in new ways
• Effective time management skills to juggle competing demands in a busy and sometimes pressured work environment

We encourage applications from those currently undertaking and about to complete their MHWP training