Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner - Lincoln, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust Eating Disorder service is going through a system wide mental health transformation programme in line with the Long-Term Plan (LTP).
This expansion is planned to improve care delivery and parity of esteem between physical and mental health and ensure that everyone in Lincolnshire who is experiencing an eating disorder will receive a service.
This is an exciting time to join the team when we are looking to expand our workforce and train more people to deliver eating disorder therapies across Lincolnshire.
This new post will ultimately work across the county aligned with primary care networks and associated GP practices, supporting clients with eating disorders in your own community, and is an exciting time to support the successful creation of these new pathways.
You will be part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary Adult Eating Disorder team delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting adults to receive the right care in a community setting.
You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with adults with an eating disorder within a well-established team.
However, you will be required to deliver an autonomous service as part of your role, within professional guidelines and the overall Trust policies and procedures.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.
Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England.
In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.
We're really proud of thisWe offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.
We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
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.
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 caseload of service users in order to support and monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
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 liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of
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