Job summary
We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new role in psychological practice, the Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP). MHWPs are one of the key psychological professions that will help us to deliver the NHS Long Term Plan to meet the psychological needs of older people with complex needs living in Kent & Medway. We are particularly keen to attract a diverse range of people from our local Kent & Medway communities into these exciting new roles.
Main duties of the job
The qualification options are a Postgraduate Certificate or a Graduate Certificate both at Oxfordhealth. Trainee MHWPs will be paid at Agenda for Change Band 4 to train and would then qualify and be employable at Agenda for Change Band 5. Qualified MHWPs working in the community will contribute to the evidence-based, psychologically informed interventions delivered within KMPT's older people's services and their clinical care pathways.
About us
We are very keen to support applicants from our local communities, and who represent our local demographics. We are committed to ensuring that KMPT becomes a more equal, less discriminatory and inclusive Trust. We believe that we can only achieve this through specific actions focussed on diversity, equality and inclusion, acting against inequality, discrimination and injustice. This includes recruitment.
People with lived experience of health and social care, and carers are particularly encouraged to apply. Please briefly and succinctly outline in your application how your background and life experience equip you to work in our services as a Trainee MHWP.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job advertisement in the attached document essential reading for all applicants.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job advertisement in the attached document essential reading for all applicants.
Person Specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential
- Batchelors degree at 2:2 in any subject for entry to the postgraduate route
Experience
Essential
- Experience of work interacting with the public
- Experience working as part of a team
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
- Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual's health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan
- Able to contribute to risk assessment drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, under clinical supervision
- Able to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the team's understanding and formulation of service users' difficulties and development of a multi-disciplinary care plan
Desirable
- Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
- Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically-informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs
- Able to prioritise workload according to peoples' changing needs and the priorities of the team
- Experience of working with service users with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers
- Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality.
- Able to communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance.
- Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
- Liaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users.
Desirable
- Able to assist in maintaining own and others health safety and security
- Monitor and maintain physical and/ or financial resources for a work area
- To be able to use basic computer skills to collect, collate and report on client's progress on a daily basis.
- Fit to undertake any duties related to the role including physical interventions for the management of violence and aggression
Person Specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential
- Batchelors degree at 2:2 in any subject for entry to the postgraduate route
Experience
Essential
- Experience of work interacting with the public
- Experience working as part of a team
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
- Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual's health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan
- Able to contribute to risk assessment drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, under clinical supervision
- Able to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the team's understanding and formulation of service users' difficulties and development of a multi-disciplinary care plan
Desirable
- Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
- Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically-informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs
- Able to prioritise workload according to peoples' changing needs and the priorities of the team
- Experience of working with service users with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers
- Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality.
- Able to communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance.
- Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
- Liaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users.
Desirable
- Able to assist in maintaining own and others health safety and security
- Monitor and maintain physical and/ or financial resources for a work area
- To be able to use basic computer skills to collect, collate and report on client's progress on a daily basis.
- Fit to undertake any duties related to the role including physical interventions for the management of violence and aggression
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Address
Darent House (Ground Floor), Sevenoaks
Hospital Road
Sevenoaks
TN13 3PG
Employer's website
https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
