Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Older Adult (OA) CMHT at Witham Court as a full time Band 5 Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner. This is a new role within the team covering the Lincoln & Gainsborough area combining clinic and home visits.

We are seeking to recruit a dedicated, enthusiastic and dynamic practitioner with a keen interest in developing existing skills with OA experiencing serious mental illness.

We are committed to supporting you to become the best you can be. We offer a comprehensive induction, excellent training and further development opportunities with monthly managerial supervision and yearly appraisal. Clinical Supervision will be provided by a Clinical Psychologist in conjunction with the Team Co-ordinators.

The team supports flexible working with a combination of office and home based working.

The Team carries a caseload on the Mental Health and Dementia Pathways and is supported by Consultant Psychiatrists, Speciality Medics, ACP and nursing staff.

The post will entail supporting our existing patients on the Mental Health Pathway requiring specialist secondary services following the Divisional pathways and protocols.

We hold a weekly MDT meeting and aim to provide timely diagnosis, support and decision making to facilitate optimal management and life outcomes for those in need.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to work alongside patients, families, carers and MDT's to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making in relation to care and treatment. This will include the fomulation of risk assessments and management plans.

The post holder will deliver a set of psychologically informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based in the best evidence, to address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems. This will require engagement with families and carers to develop care plans focused on strengths, and which are outcome based.

To work under close case supervision from a suitably qualified professional to ensure the delivery of high quality collabarative care planning as a valued member of the MDT.

To work under close clinical skills supervision from an HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist accredited to provide specified psychologically informed - wellbeing-focused interventions including:

Behavioural activation and graded exposure using the GOALS programme

Improving sleep

Building confidence

Teaching problem-solving skills

Recognising and managing emotions

Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating

Support with medicines management

You will sit within a significantly growing countywide psychology department consisting of Consultant Clinical Psychologist, 2 x MHWPs, 3 x Psychological Interventions Facilitators and 2 x Clinical Psychologists (starting in post in Oct 25).

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.