Job summary
Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWPs) are an exciting and growing part of the NHS psychological workforce. If you have completed a PGCert or CertGrad qualification we would welcome your application. We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic practitioner to join our team.

The Reflect Primary Care Mental Health Treatment Requirement Service is expanding across Sussex. Commissioned by NHS England, we deliver Community Sentence Treatment Requirements in partnership with the Probation Service and substance use services. The service supports individuals sentenced in Sussex courts by providing primary care mental health interventions.

Based between Brighton and Worthing Probation offices, you will work closely with partner agencies, including the Probation Service and CGL, delivering high-quality, evidence-based, psychologically informed interventions to individuals with complex and often marginalised needs.

You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, contributing to clinical governance, data collection, and service development under the supervision of the clinical lead. With support, you will undertake psychological assessments and deliver tailored interventions. You will also benefit from being part of a wider psychological professions network, supporting your ongoing development and career progression.

Experience within the Criminal Justice System is desirable but not essential.

Main duties of the job
What you'll do:

• This role plays a key part in the MHTR pathway, supporting and improving the psychological care provided to service users. It involves delivering psychological assessments and interventions appropriate to the individual's level of training and experience, as well as carrying out related tasks to strengthen assessment, intervention, and evaluation within the care group.
• The MHWP will work autonomously, with their workload, objectives, and progress overseen through regular supervision by an HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist.
• Assess the client's suitability for these interventions
• You will typically support service users for up to 12 sessions
• Risk assess and to plan care collaboratively with service users
• Set collaborative goals for intervention with service users
• Implement pre and post outcome measures with service users
• Form professional relationships and relate to service users in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture
• Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances
• Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills
• Regularly attend clinical supervision with a qualified psychology professional
• Exercise good personal time management, punctuality, reliable attendance and good organisational skills

About us
What we offer:

• Career Development: Engage in professional supervision, ongoing training, and opportunities for CPD and career growth within our Trust.
• Benefits: Enjoy an excellent NHS pension, generous holiday entitlement, access to NHS discount schemes and access to the Employee Assistance Programme.
• Inclusive Environment: We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, ensuring that everyone can belong and thrive in their career with us.

At Sussex Partnership we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to as advertised, please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.

If you haven't thought about living in Sussex before then you should consider the following:

• Journey from the coast to the countryside in minutes
• Enjoy a lifestyle where there are renowned cycle routes and picturesque walks, including the famous South Downs Way in the South Downs National Park!
• Embrace taking time to discover all the miles of scenic coastline,
• Easy access to airports - Gatwick and Heathrow are both within 90 minutes of the county, providing links to Europe and beyond
• London is within easy reach via local and national bus routes and national mainline stations

Job responsibilities
What are we looking for?

• PG Cert or Cert Grad in Mental Health Wellbeing Practice
• Experience of delivering low intensity psychologically informed work using CBT principles to those with severe and enduring mental health problems
• Experience of working well within a multidisciplinary NHS Team
• Experience of delivering goal focused, short-term, time-limited work.
• Experience of promoting wellbeing and social inclusion.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusting and productive relationships with colleagues, partner agencies and service users
• A good understanding of mental health issues and ability to formulate psychologically around these
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to tailor them to a variety of audiences
• The ability to work independently and think quickly in often challenging situations
• The creativity to solve problems and tackle obstacles in new ways
• Effective time management skills to juggle competing demands in a busy and sometimes pressured work environment

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience of working within an NHS Multidisciplinary team
• Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner qualification.
• Registration or Eligibility for Registration with the BPS or BABCP for accreditation in a MHWP role

Desirable

• Current registration with BPS or BABCP

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion.