Band 5 Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - Bath

NHS Jobs; Kentucky; On-site; USD 36,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Bath is seeking a Band 5 Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to work within a multidisciplinary team. The role focuses on risk assessment, formulation, care planning and coordinating care for a caseload of service users, relatives and carers as appropriate.

You will deliver evidence-based wellbeing interventions under supervision, such as behavioural activation, sleep improvement and emotion regulation, and contribute to relapse prevention and coordinated discharge planning.

Job description

Band 5 Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - Bath

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. To 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. To 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. To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users. To 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. To be responsive to service users needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect. To include carers and families in line with the service users wishes. To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users. To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and care plans of service users in a skilled and sensitive manner in order to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients. To develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention. To deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families and carers. Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.