Band 5 Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - Bath

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Bath; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health provider is seeking a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner to support individuals with severe mental health difficulties in Bath. You'll co-ordinate care, deliver well-being-focused interventions, and work within a dedicated team aimed at improving the quality of life for service users. This role emphasizes collaborative care and is inclusive of diverse community needs, offering opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering well-being-focused interventions.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.
• Understanding of mental health conditions and support needs.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate care with service users and teams.
• Deliver psychologically informed interventions.
• Engage with service users during distressing circumstances.
• Develop care plans and collaborate on interventions.
• Liaise with health and care providers to ensure continuity.

Skills

Cognitive-behavioral principles

Risk assessment

Empathy

Care planning

Communication skills

Job description

Responsibilities

• Co‑coordinate care with service users, families, carers and multidisciplinary team members to support collaborative decision‑making about care and treatment.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Attend multi‑disciplinary reviews and act as a care coordinator for a caseload of service users in order to support and monitor progress during the course of multi‑disciplinary interventions.
• Set collaborative goals for intervention with service users.
• Deliver specified wellbeing‑focused psychologically‑informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including:
  • Behavioural activation and graded exposure.
  • Teaching problem‑solving skills.
  • Improving sleep.
  • Recognising and managing emotions.
  • Guided self‑help for bulimia and binge‑eating.
  • Building confidence.
  • Medication support.
• Be responsive to service users’ needs and choices, upholding their right to be treated with dignity and respect.
• Include carers and families in line with the service user’s wishes.
• Liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.
• Communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and care plans of service users in a skilled and sensitive manner to promote effective multi‑disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes.
• Develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention.
• Deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families and carers.

Diversity & Inclusion

We are proud to foster a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived‑experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities – we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

Opportunity

A rare opportunity has arisen to work in the BaNES Recovery Service! We are looking to recruit a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner to support those with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. We are an approachable, friendly and welcoming team that would certainly support your continued professional development as part of this position.

About the Organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community‑based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and well‑being. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person‑centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.