Job Opening: Qualified and Accredited Mental Health Well-being Practitioner

Applicants need to be registered with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and/or the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).

About the Role

Structured Clinical Management (SCM) is an evidence-based treatment for service-users with Severe Mental Health difficulties. The Croydon locality has adopted SCM as the framework for healthcare across the Directorate, embedding it in its operational policies. It is used with the full range of Secondary Care Patients including those with Psychosis Conditions, Mood and Affective Conditions, and Personality Disorder.

We are seeking to employ and support a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to take on a role as an SCM Aligned Care Coordinator within the Central CMHT. They will offer assessments and deliver high quality SCM treatment for the Secondary Care group. This will involve both individual case management and low intensity psychological interventions.

Responsibilities

• To deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems. These include problem solving, building confidence, behavioural activation, graded exposure, emotional regulation.
• You will be a named key worker and co-ordinate care for service users.
• You will help to produce and run low level intervention mental health groups.
• To work under close case management supervision from a suitably qualified professional to provide high quality collaborative care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
• To work under close clinical skills supervision from an HCPC registered clinical or counselling psychologist or BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist or other suitably qualified psychological professional to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions.