Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity within the Derwentside and Chester Le Street CMHT working with adults as a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner.
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
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work under close case management supervision from a BABCP accredited CBT Therapist to provide specified psychologically informed wellbeing-focused interventions, with a level of autonomy in community working.
Additional contact details: Christa Cowan
[email protected]
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
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
- Problem-solving
- Improving sleep
- Recognising and managing emotions
- Confidence building
- Support with medicines management
Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management 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 focused on strengths and are outcome based.
To 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.