Mental Health & Wellbeing Team Practitioner

We are looking for an experienced and accredited mental health practitioner in the field of mental health nursing, social services, and other accredited mental health professionals with strong skills in assessing clinical risk and delivering therapeutic support, to join the University’s multi-disciplinary Mental Health and Wellbeing Team (MHWT).

About the Role

This role involves joining a professional, multi-disciplinary MHWT which is delivering mental health support to around 1,000 students each year and seeing significant annual increases in its caseload. Reporting to the Mental Health and Wellbeing Team Manager, you will provide mental health support to students experiencing mental health issues.

This work will include mental health triage, assessment, brief and longer-term therapeutic support, internal and external referral, and follow-up – including with, and for, students presenting high levels of clinical risk or in crisis.

About You

As an experienced mental health practitioner, you will have a mental health qualification and current accreditation with a recognised professional body, such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Social Work England, BACP or Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).

You will have significant professional experience as a practitioner in the field of mental health practice, including providing short-term focused individual therapeutic interventions and working with individuals with acute mental illness, diagnosed long-term mental health conditions, and issues common to the client group of students.

You will be able to maintain clear therapeutic boundaries and confidentiality, balanced with a need to share appropriate information for the effective management of clinical risk across an institution. Your commitment to adhering to professional and ethical principles and guidelines will be coupled with a flexible approach to adopting new ways of working and learning new skills.

With strong inter-personal skills, you will have a confident and dynamic approach to liaising with, and advising, key internal and external stakeholders, and be able to tolerate high levels of client distress.

Interview date: 1st & 2nd July 2024.

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