Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

For more information and an informal discussion, please contact by email or phone, Charlotte Long (FREED Co-ordinator/Senior Clinician) on 01522 421632 or Charlotte.long1@nhs.net or Nicola Sorsby (Interim AEDS Service Manager/Service Development Lead) on 01522 421632 or Nicola.sorsby2@nhs.net Your role will include: Have attended all elements of the training programme of study and progress successfully through assessments of competence and attainment. Work in an AEDS community service with experience of interacting with the public, working as part of a team, analysing complex information, and communicating effectively. Support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team. 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. 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 for a caseloadof 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 Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, including: Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating. Co- facilitate groups for some of the NICE recommended treatment interventions for eating disorders. Behavioural Activation and Graded Exposure using the GOALS programme. Problem-solving skills.
Improving sleep. Recognising and managing emotions. Confidence building. Support with delivering physical health monitoring pathway for eating disorders.
Support with medicines management. 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. Demonstrate the ability to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress, their families and carers.
You will be aligned to PCNs in an allocated area in Lincolnshire, and will be part of the Adult specialist eating disorder pathway working across the ED-primary care service and specialist eating disorder service closely on a day to day basis with CBTE practitioners

Please refer the Job description for details