Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP)
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £28,407.00 to £34,581.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £28407.00 - £34581.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Widnes, WA8 7QA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9350-24-0742 |
Summary
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.