Mental Health Well-Being Practitioner

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider is seeking a Mental Health Well-Being Practitioner to join their team in the City of Westminster. The role involves providing specialist nursing care to patients experiencing mental health issues and ensuring a high standard of evidence-based care. Responsibilities include assessing and implementing care plans alongside registered nurses, engaging therapeutically with patients, and contributing to a supportive work environment that prioritizes dignity and inclusion. Candidates should have relevant nursing qualifications and a commitment to delivering compassionate care.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Healthcare qualification relevant to mental health nursing.
• Experience in delivering therapeutic patient care.
• Knowledge of national guidelines for managing disturbed behavior.

Responsibilities

• Assess, develop, and evaluate care for patients.
• Deliver care planned by clinicians or registered nurses.
• Engage therapeutically with patients experiencing distress.
• Undertake delegated clinical care duties.

Skills

Competence in therapeutic interventions

Ability to assess and manage risk

Effective communication skills

Adaptability

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

The role of the Mental Health Well‑Being Practitioner as a member of the team is to provide specialist nursing care to patients with mental health conditions or patients experiencing psychological distress. Deliver therapeutic interventions that will reduce agitation and distress and promote recovery. To identify factors that increase and decrease agitation/distress for the patient. To always deliver care according to the principles of least restriction. Carrying out assigned tasks as part of clinical team in support of registered nurses and to undertake some aspects of care provision without direct supervision. Ensuring the safety and well‑being of services users, and always working a that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centered care principles. The post holder will be expected to work with patients admitted to the ward as a member of the multidisciplinary team, delivering a high standard of evidence‑based care and treatment in order to maximise each patient’s individual potential.

Responsibilities

• Assess, develop, implement and evaluate care for patients and families admitted to the ward in conjunction with the Psychiatric Liaison Team.
• Deliver care that has already been planned by a clinician or a Registered Nurse and take appropriate action to ensure that outcomes are achieved.
• Be competent, confident and adaptable and require minimal supervision from the registered professionals within the team.
• Contribute to the efficient running of the department and ensure patients and their families are seen in a timely manner.
• Deliver care in accordance with the principles of least restriction and in line with national guidance including NICE guidelines for managing disturbed behaviour.
• Understand continuous risk assessment of patient and escalates any increase in risk.
• Identify when patients are experiencing anxiety/distress and therapeutically engage with them to alleviate these symptoms.
• Identify escalation of risk and actively de‑escalate the situation.
• Undertake therapeutic activities with the patient, that are appropriate to their presentation.
• Undertake a range of delegated clinical care duties to deliver agreed plans of care, acting on own initiative.
• Ensure patients receive high quality clinical care and good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
• Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
• Act as advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient‑orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
• Provide support and assistance to professionals in the implementation of plans of care for individual patients.
• As directed to collect specimens from patients and record routine observations. Report abnormalities and concerns to a Registered Nurse.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development.
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability.
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability.
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development.
5. Making equalities mainstream.

We also maintain active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our workforce.

About Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT), is a community‑focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high‑quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. We provide whole‑life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as to care for them when they need us the most. Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewishom and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust, formed in 2013. Our vision is to be exceptional in the quality of patient care, the support for colleagues and in the difference we make through partnerships and our communities. We value Respect, Compassion and Inclusion, accountability, listening and succeeding together.

Local Employer

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce is reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. Sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration approval.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.