Job Description

JOB PURPOSE

Our Guided Self-Help service is a psychoeducational program designed to offer early intervention for individuals experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. The aim of the service is to help individuals better understand their mental health challenges and equip them with practical tools, strategies, and resources to promote emotional well-being, challenge unhelpful thought patterns, and strengthen self-care.

The programme is structured around a series of workbooks based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) principles. These are delivered over six sessions with a trained Guided Self-Help Practitioner, with each session lasting approximately 30 minutes. Practitioners use the workbooks as a guide to help individuals develop practical coping skills to manage a range of mental health issues, including:

Anxiety and Panic Attacks

Low Mood and Depression

Stress Management

Low Self-Esteem

Anger Management

Grief and Loss

Menopause-related challenges

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To be responsible for a caseload of Guided Self Help clients.

2. To work with people to overcome early signs of mental health distress such as anxiety, depression and stress

3. To follow a set programme in providing graded exposure via a facilitated self-help model, including referring people to higher levels of intervention when required.

4. To accurately and efficiently manage all administration processes

5. To deliver an effective service to meet set Service Level Agreement targets.

6. To promote/publicise the service and establish positive customer engagement and input, as well as being involved in promoting general aspects of well-being.

7. To maintain all required records of clients to support the running of this project.

8. To work as part of the therapeutic team, the organisation wide team and independently within community settings

9. To develop and sustain positive relationships with key partner agencies and referral sources.

10. To undergo any training relevant to the role either internally or externally.

11. To promote the concepts of social inclusion, early intervention and recovery and ensure this underpins the direction of well-being centre activities. To work within Mind's ethos and Mission Statement.

12. Keep abreast of treatments, therapies, policy, legislation and local services relating to well-being.

13. To participate in supervision and annual appraisal with the relevant manager and attend training as required.

14. To participate in clinical supervision with the clinical supervisor.

15. To carry out any other tasks as reasonably required by management

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: 24,414.00 per year

Expected hours: 16 per week

Benefits:

Company pension Sick pay
Application question(s):

Do you have an understanding of the principles of CBT?
Experience:

health and social care : 1 year (required)
Language:

English (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Barrow-In-Furness LA14 1EW