Job summary
- Main area
- HM Prisons
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 301-IT-24-6291339-A
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP Stoke Heath
- Town
- Market Drayton
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner
Band 5
Job overview
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to plan care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment, and 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.
Working under close case management supervision from a suitably qualified professional you will provide high quality collaborative care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team. To work under close clinical skills supervision from an HCPC registered practitioner psychologist or BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person for full details. A summary is provided below:
- 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.
- Deliver psychologically informed evidence based interventions to a caseload of male service users currently residing in prison.
- 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 attend multi-disciplinary reviews for a caseload of service users liaising with the care co-ordinator to support and monitor progress.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice
- Experience running groups/activities
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
Desirable criteria
- Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stephanie Nicholls
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01630 636036
- Additional information
If you would like to know more and find out whether joining our dedicated team is for you then please get in touch with Stephanie Nicholls as we would love to hear from you.
**** We do not accept CVs. Applications will only be considered if made via the website.****
****This vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.****
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