Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP)

at  Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

To work alongside professionals delivering psychological interventions within the primary care setting. A Psychological Well-being Practitioner will assist with the overall delivery of `guided self-help psychological interventions’ within a stepped model of care in line with NICE Guidelines.
This post is subject to an enhanced check with adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
We are committed to delivering the very best possible life-long care in physical health, mental health, learning disabilities and addictions services. We are passionate about advancing the health of the people and communities we serve. We will achieve this through pursuing clinical excellence and whole-person care , involving the people we serve in every aspect of their care and through prevention and early intervention to help people keep well and living well at home for longer .
The care we offer is built on strong relationships , and we will work side-by-side with our staff, other organisations, and with people and communities themselves to activate, innovate and continually improve the prevention, treatment and support we provide. Together, we believe we can exceed expectations of the health, care and wellbeing available to the people we serve.

THE MAIN ROLES WILL INCLUDE:

• Face to face, Video and telephone work with clients with common mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, at step 2.
• Work within practice teams including liaison with GPs, Practice staff, third sector agencies and service users and carers.
• Networking with the wider health and social care system.
• To work autonomously within the team and possess excellent organisational and time management skills, in order to cope with the demands of the service.
• To have undertaken the “Post Graduate Certificate in Primary Care” course and be qualified as a PWP.
• The post holder will demonstrate respect and value service users’ and their carers.
  Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
  We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
  At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under the supervision of an appropriately skilled and qualified person to;
1. Develop skills of collaborative working with service users (and where appropriate their carers) to build an effective partnership of care.
2. To carry a caseload of clients and assist in identifying and effectively managing their emotional distress and disturbance.
3. Utilise a range of guided self-help interventions, in line with NICE guidelines.
4. Utilise a range of core skills in mental health practice in order to contribute to and co-ordinate the care and treatment of clients with mild mental health problems.
5. Implement and support a range of evidence based interventions utilising a self management model of mental health care.
6. Collaborate with service users and other people involved in their care to encourage medication compliance.
7. Help to establish systems in practices for the effective management of mental health needs of individual service users, families and communities.
8. Through supervision, systematically evaluate and record outcomes of mental health interventions, adapting care on the basis of these evaluations.
9. Participate in inter-professional approaches to care that respect and utilise the contributions of the wider health and social care team.
10. Utilise managerial and clinical supervision to ensure that care and treatment are tailored to service users, family and community needs; that learning needs are identified and acted upon to ensure personal development.
11. Practice in a non discriminatory manner, respecting the variety of beliefs and cultural practices of individuals and groups.
12. Assist in the delivery of the Mental Health Promotion Strategy for the Halton Borough at a local level.
13. To record and evaluate outcome measures as part of the ongoing therapy process, for a service user
14. To assist in the accurate entry of clinical data onto the Trusts agreed systems.
15. To ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entering and recording