Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

• To deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems. These include problem solving, building confidence, behavioural activation, graded exposure, emotional regulation.
• You will be a named key worker and co-ordinate care for service users.
• You will help to produce and run low level intervention mental health groups.
• To work under close case management supervision from a suitably qualified professional to 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 clinical or counselling psychologist or BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist or other suitably qualified psychological professional to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions.

This advert is for Central Community Mental Health Team in Croydon based at Jeanette Wallace House.

The post holder will receive support around the delivery of low intensity psychological interventions under supervision as part of their delivery of the SCM model of care (see Job Description).

Working alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will work closely with other care coordinators and case managers in identifying any barriers to discharge or in implementing care plans. They will work hand in hand with their colleagues in the team, other community teams in and out of the trust, primary care colleagues and the patients family/carers to facilitate discharge. They will ensure that the estimated discharge date as identified during reviews is progressed where possible and feasible.

The post holder will work a normal shift pattern of Monday- Friday 9:00-17:00.

The post holder will need excellent clinical and risk assessment skills and can work autonomously in carrying out prompt and comprehensive patient assessments whilst ensuring effective transition to other appropriate clinical pathways.

The post holder will work as an experienced mental health professional who acting within their own professional boundaries will provide care for service users that are in their recovery journey from severe and enduring mental health challenges.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

The Trust employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.

Essential: - A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health); - Registration with the BPS and/or the BABCP (A) post-qualification.

Desirable: - Any training relevant to the service user group

Essential: - 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 working as part of a team; - Experience of being supervised; - Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing

Desirable: - Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties; - Experience of working within the Croydon locality

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; - 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

Desirable: - Knowledge of the population of the Croydon locality