Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

Join the Kent and Medway All Age Eating Disorder Service (AAEDS), a specialist community service delivering NICE-concordant treatment to children, young people and adults with an eating disorder. In this role you will collaborate with service users, families, carers and multidisciplinary team members to coordinate care and support decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside service users, families, carers and multidisciplinary team members to co-ordinate care and support collaborative decision-making.
• Deliver wellbeing-focused, psychologically informed interventions aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles based on the best evidence.
• Lead triage assessment for service users with symptoms indicative of Binge Eating Disorder.
• Deliver the guided self-help programme for service users diagnosed with Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder.
• Support any digital pathway for this cohort of service users where applicable.
• Run groups and activities and contribute to team meetings.

Education & Training

• Graduate certificate (Level6) or postgraduate certificate (Level7) in the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health).
• Registration with the BPS or BABCP for accreditation in a MHWP role.
• NVQ Level2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through graduate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills: analysis and communication of complex information.
• Experience running groups and activities and working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Knowledge of NHS priorities and ability to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in distress, families and carers.
• Ability to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information within confidentiality boundaries.
• Experienced in liaising with other teams and services, including external agencies, to support service-user wellbeing.
• Ability to assist in planning and delivering psychologically informed interventions to meet people’s health and wellbeing needs.
• Ability to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the team’s understanding and formulation of service-user difficulties and development of a multidisciplinary care plan.

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