Graduate Mental Health Worker

Inclusion; Lichfield; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Inclusion, at HMP Swinfen Hall, seeks a Graduate Mental Health Worker to join an integrated team to support assessment, care planning, and delivery of psychosocial care under supervision. You will promote wellbeing, self-care and social inclusion for individuals with mental health needs.

You will work with prison staff and other professionals to ensure timely, high-quality, user-centred services and may co-facilitate group work in one-to-one and group settings.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant field such as psychology, criminology, or mental health.
• Experience delivering mental health interventions is desirable but not required.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the assessment of care needs and formulate, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
• Deliver psychosocial and psychologically informed care under supervision.
• Support promotion of wellbeing, self-care and social inclusion.
• Liaise with prison staff and statutory/non-statutory agencies to provide holistic care.
• Co-facilitate group work as part of the integrated team.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Group facilitation

Care planning

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Undergraduate degree in psychology, criminology, or mental health

Job description

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn

Are you a Graduate Mental Health Worker looking to advance and diversify your career? Why not break into prison healthcare?

Our Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Team at HMP Swinfen Hall is looking for a Graduate Mental Health Worker. Our team is innovative, forward thinking and committed to a recovery focused approach.

As a Graduate Mental Health Worker you will assist in the assessment of care needs and the formulation, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for individuals. You will deliver relevant forms of psychosocial and psychologically informed care under agreed levels of supervision. You will assist in identifying strategies to support mental wellbeing and in the promotion of self-care and social inclusion.

Main duties of the job

You will communicate and work collaboratively with Mental Health team colleagues and the prison teams to meet the needs of patients.

You will support the delivery of timely access to integrated, high quality, service user-centred services that enable people with mental health needs, and/or substance use issues to improve their well-being and functionality, thereby preventing, reducing or delaying the need for more specialist services.

As part of the integrated team, under the supervision of qualified mental health practitioners, you will work to ensure that the needs of service users are addressed by offering appropriate interventions in both one to one and group settings. This will include promoting wellbeing, independence and choice whilst preventing, reducing or delaying the greater onset of need.

You will be expected to adhere to relevant policy and procedure. You will liaise with other professionals and agencies both statutory and non-statutory to provide holistic care and treatment. The co-facilitation of group work will be an expectation of the role. Being a compassionate individual will be essential.

About us

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support.Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team! For more information about HMP Swinfen Hall and our incentives offer please see attached information.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. A summary is as follows:

• 1. To be an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team, working with individuals who are experiencing mental health issues, providing targeted Mental Health interventions (in one to one and group settings) under the instruction/supervision of registered Mental Health professionals.
• 2. To engage identified individuals in low intensity support and interventions that focus on mental health awareness, well-being and mental health promotion.
• 3. To support prevention of and early intervention in mental health difficulties supporting all service users to develop self-efficacy and resilience and a personal mental health / mind plan
• 4. Support and work with the team to improve the interface between services for people with mental health difficulties.
• 5. Work with the Mental Health Practitioners in the team to provide tailored individual care and support plans describing anticipated treatment/s and support packages that promote recovery including a focus on psycho-social and psychologically informed interventions in both one to one and group settings.
• 6. Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant field e.g. psychology, criminology, mental health

Experience

• Experience of working with people with mental health needs.
• Experience of delivering Mental Health interventions and sign posting for mild to moderate mental illness.
• Working in a prison or community setting.

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.