Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)
Qualified Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner
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Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners
We are proud to offer the post of Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners to join our experienced workforce in Hertfordshire.
The post holder will have a desire to develop their skills in working with adults with severe and enduring mental illness, some of whom will have not had previous access to psychologically informed interventions.
The post-holder will work collaboratively with service users, their families, carers, and multi-disciplinary team members to provide assessment, care planning, and coordination of care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment. The successful candidate will be part of the core team and duties will also include, holding a small caseload, completing Initial Assessments, Care Planning, Risk Assessing, being part of the Duty Team.
The post holder will support the delivery of a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems under the supervision of a clinical/counselling psychologist or CBT therapist, where this is identified in personalised care planning and support.
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The Successful Candidate Will
- Hold a graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)
- Work closely with colleagues in a multi-disciplinary team to deliver interventions for our service users
- Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team
- Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives, and patient records to develop a formulation
- 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.
- Be on a duty rota
- Carry out Initial Assessments
- Hold a small caseload of service users
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)
HPFT is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
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Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families, and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout.
Our Trust Values Are
- Welcoming
- Kind
- Positive
- Respectful
- Professional
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: John Woodward
- Job title: Service Manager
- Email address: john.woodward2@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07796 261 057
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