Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health service provider in the UK is seeking qualified Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners to join their team. This role will help enhance access to psychological interventions for adults facing severe mental health challenges. Candidates will work in dynamic teams, assisting service users and their families within the framework of community care. A commitment to understanding social deprivation and strong teamwork skills are essential. This position also involves joint work in Lambeth Living Well Centres, enhancing patient care and support.

Qualifications

• Ability to work under supervision in a dynamic mental health team.
• Experience delivering interventions for serious mental health problems.
• Skills in supporting families and carers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver psychologically informed interventions to adults with mental health issues.
• Manage individual guided self-help caseloads.
• Participate in integrated work within Living Well Centres.

Skills

Psychologically informed interventions

Flexibility and adaptability

Teamwork

Education

Qualified Mental Health Practitioner

Job description

We are looking for highly motivated individuals to join our team as Qualified Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners with Secondary Care Psychological Therapies and our Lambeth Living Well Centres. This is an exciting role created by NHS England and Improvement to support the transformation of adult community mental health services.

This role will contribute to ensuring adults with severe mental health problems have greater access to psychologically informed interventions.

We are committed to developing a team that is fully representative of the communities that we serve. , As a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will be expected to work under supervision as part of a dynamic mental health team delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting adults to receive the right care. You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with adults with severe mental health problems.

As a qualified MHWP you will, under supervision, continue to develop knowledge and practice skills to employ wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions for serious mental health problems for adults individually and in groups, as well as support their families and carers, in line with the education providers expectations. You will be taking a lead role in integrated work within our Living Well Centres, including joint formulation, training and consultation. You will hold an individual guided self-help caseload within the Living Well Centre team you work with and a separate role within SCPT in the first tier of our Complex Emotional Needs pathway.

The second largest inner London Borough with an official population of around 350,000. The local population has needs related to a high level of social deprivation such as unemployment, poor social housing and child poverty. There are also pockets of greater affluence. There are high levels of morbidity, and levels and complexity of mental health problems are above the national average.

Lambeth CCG and Lambeth Council want people of Lambeth to have a fully integrated and coordinated mental health system which focuses on people's strengths and supports their whole health and wellbeing. They have commissioned SLAM NHS as part of the Lambeth Living Well Network (LWN) Alliance to lead, co-ordinate and, in large part, deliver support and services for those experiencing mental health issues in Lambeth.

The Trust: The South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) and committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, and some more specialist services to people from across the UK.