Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - Aylesbury, United Kingdom - Sanctuary Health

Sanctuary Health
Sanctuary Health
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Aylesbury, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 400+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Health & Wellbeing Practitioner to take on a new ongoing contract role.


Health & Wellbeing Practitioner Pay Rate:£28 - £30 per hour (assignment rate)


Location:
Aylesbury


Contract Type:3-month contract


Benefits of working with us:


  • Fully online and paperless registration service
  • Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory elearning and practical training modules (if applicable)
  • Exclusive access to roles that aren't available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we've recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped
  • T&Cs apply)
  • Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
  • Find your own job bonus
  • Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
  • Clinical governance and revalidation support from an inhouse qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
  • Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
  • Daily payroll and inhouse payroll system

Duties:


  • Deliver client centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence based treatment approaches depending on the requirements of the individual client
  • Working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to prisoners with substance misuse, lowlevel mental health and overall health and wellbeing issues
  • Be responsible for managing a caseload, providing appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assessments, and care plans; you will deliver structured 1:1 and group
- work sessions on both Substance Misuse and Low Level Mental Health topics and provide transitional support from prison to the community to prepare service users for release

  • Contributing to the targets set, additionally the role requires you to make case note entries and record information accurately
  • Write progress reports for clients aimed at a specific audience, good quality written work will be expected in this role

Requirements of the Health & Wellbeing Practitioner:

  • Psychologists must be registered and accredited members of the BACP. (Registered Member MBACP (Accred) or Registered Member MBACP (Snr Accred).)
  • Psychologist with HCPC registration
  • Proactively approach integrated ways of working and support and adopt a multidisciplinary approach
  • Excellent experience of substance misuse and/or mental health work in a related field
  • Demonstrable experience of carrying out risk assessments, comprehensive assessments and the design and implementation of SMART care plans
  • Significant experience of carrying out psychosocial interventions including using motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and therapeutic group settings
  • Knowledge of the criminal justice sector
  • Knowledge of the Recovery Agenda
  • A thorough knowledge of and commitment to the 12step process of recovery from addiction
  • Experience of providing counselling / CBT services to prisoners, or those with Health and Wellbeing, or drug and / or alcohol problems
  • Personal experience of addiction/imprisonment (Addicts in recovery should have at least 3 years clean time)
  • Exprisoners, should have been released at least 5 years ago


  • Proactivity

  • Quick thinking with a high level use of initiative


  • Resilience

  • Solves problems, takes learning on board from mistakes to aid personal and professional growth


  • Adaptability

  • Can work in fastpaced changing environments


  • Confidence

  • Has confidence in own abilities, has good eye contact and able to communicate clearly and concisely


  • Team Work

  • Works in harmony with colleagues to deliver results


  • Open to Feedback

  • Open to constructive feedback in order to further develop
  • A diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent or relevant experience in a comparable role
  • Any Health and Wellbeing related qualification

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Reasonable Adjustments:


If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity.

With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.
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