Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner
Come and join us
We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role will include: Co-running group treatments
Supporting the team with required support as needed and facilitating access to full pathways of careCo-creating risk assessments and Care plans with Service Users
Delivering individual, psychologically informed interventions
Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team
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.
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 criteria- 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 criteria- 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
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people.It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.