Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner
Job Description
Job summary
Are you a passionate Mental Health Wellbeing practitioner? We invite you to join our vibrant and dedicated team at the Hastings Assessment and Treatment Service (ATS). This is an exciting opportunity to work with a diverse group of professionals committed to providing exceptional care to those with severe and complex mental health needs.Why Join Us?At Hastings ATS, you'll be part of an innovative team that embraces transformation and strives to deliver high-quality treatments. You'll collaborate with a multi-professional team and have the chance to work with a group of passionate psychologists, therapists, and trainees. Our service values compassionate care and supports a psychologically safe work environment, ensuring that you feel valued and supported.
Main duties of the job
Are you a passionate Mental Health Wellbeing practitioner? We invite you to join our vibrant and dedicated team at the Hastings Assessment and Treatment Service (ATS). This is an exciting opportunity to work with a diverse group of professionals committed to providing exceptional care to those with severe and complex mental health needs.Why Join Us?At Hastings ATS, you'll be part of an innovative team that embraces transformation and strives to deliver high-quality treatments. You'll collaborate with a multi-professional team and have the chance to work with a group of passionate psychologists, therapists, and trainees. Our service values compassionate care and supports a psychologically safe work environment, ensuring that you feel valued and supported.
About us
Hastings & Rother Assessment and Treatment Service is a multi-disciplinary service for adults with complex mental health problems. Our work is at times challenging, but we do receive regular positive feedback from our service users and carers.Our office is right in the thick of Hastings vibrant and quirky culture and benefits from amazing sea views, with the prom right across the road. Hastings still maintains its working fishing beach, as well as the old town, castle, pier and of course the Guinness world record for the largest gathering of pirates is held by Hastings!Working in East Sussex will offer you the perfect blend of coastal charm and city convenience with easy access to major transport links and the beautiful countryside.What We Offer:Flexible Working: We support a healthy work/life balance with options for home-working, part-time hours, and flexible start/finish times.Career Development: Engage in professional supervision, ongoing training, and opportunities for career growth within our Trust.Benefits: Enjoy an excellent NHS pension, generous holiday entitlement, access to NHS discount schemes, free on-site parking, and full psychological support from our wellbeing team.Inclusive Environment: We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, ensuring that everyone can belong and thrive in their career with us.
Job responsibilities
The role will include:Co-running group treatmentsSupporting the team with required support as needed and facilitating access to full pathways of careCo-creating risk assessments and Care plans with Service UsersDelivering individual, psychologically informed interventionsCarry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary teamSupport service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation.Working in collaboration with individual service users 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 co-ordinator, 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
Person Specification
Qualification and registration
Essential
- A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health) or post graduate certificate achieved via the Graduate Mental Health Practitioner training plus the additional certified MHWP training modules.
- Registered as a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner on a professional register recognised for this role by NHS England
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice
- Experience running groups/activities
- Experience working as part of a team
- Experience of being supervised
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Cavendish House
Breeds Place
Hastings
TN34 3AA
