Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Communication and Relationship Skills

To communicate and liaise where appropriate with all other professionals involved in the individual clients treatment and on-going mental health care.

To provide regular information to clients GP and/or referrer about the treatment process and outcome, initial and on-going risk assessments, making appropriate disclosure and onward referrals where necessary.

To provide reports as required by the team lead, service manager, clinical leads and others as requested in order to facilitate effective communication with referring agencies and commissioners.

To improve wellbeing through interventions and encouraging access to other agencies that provide social prescribing and promotes social inclusion.

Analytical and Judgement Skills

To make decisions regarding suitability for therapy and clinical pathways with particular regard to issues of risk and onward referrals to other specialist services as required.

To formulate and implement treatment plans with clients, normally within an agreed brief structured time frame and contracted number of sessions by offering NICE compliant one to one intervention, NICE compliant group interventions and on-line therapy.

To exercise sound theoretical knowledge of evidence based psychological intervention and to employ a range of short-term interventions to meet the needs of the referred client.

Planning and Organisational Skills

To manage own clinical caseload within guidelines provided by the team lead and relevant professional guidelines and ethical frameworks (PWP Code of Practice).

To provide a level of activity in accordance with service level agreements and as agreed by team lead.

To contribute to in service training events through presentations, with information relating to good working practice, special projects, and procedural changes.

Physical Skills

Ability to sit for therapeutic work (up to 7 hours a day)

Ability to sit at a desk and work at a computer for data/clinical notes inputting purpose.

Patient and Client Care

To exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients referred by GPs, members of the Talking Therapies Team and other appropriate health and social care professionals.

To assess and provide interventions to clients presenting with multiple and complex personal difficulties including those arising from mild to moderate mental health difficulties, based on accurate understanding and utilising a conceptual framework of the clients difficulties within the bounds of low intensity therapy.

To be able to work with a range of client presentations including ambivalence and resistance in order to facilitate a clients ability to explore a range of life issues which frequently are of a distressing emotional nature.

To maintain the highest professional standards of practice by undertaking regular professional/clinical supervision, caseload management supervision and appraisal in keeping with professional body and trust guidelines.

To improve wellbeing and social inclusion through interventions and encouraging access to other agencies that provide social prescribing and which promote social inclusion.

Responsibility for Policy and Service Development

To contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and service.

Responsibility for Finance

To maintain effective use of resources.

To ensure that clinical time is used as effectively as possible.

Responsibility for Human Resources

To contribute to the induction and orientation process of new members of the team and trainees.

Responsibility for Information Resources

To provide monthly clinical activity data.

To provide appropriate statistical returns.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and responsible exercise of professional self- governance.

To ensure electronic recording of clinical activity meets the required standards, recorded accurately and in a timely fashion to meet the timely reporting of KPIs.

To have basic keyboard skills and be able to use Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel.

Research and Development

To contribute toward appropriate research project management, audit, and service evaluation with colleagues within the service to help to develop service provision.

Freedom to Act

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are appropriate for low intensity therapy.

Other

To continue to develop the skills of a reflective practitioner by conducting regular personal audit and evaluation of clinical work and by maintaining an active engagement with current development in the field of psychological therapy.

To develop knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to primary care adult mental health services.

The post holder is expected to demonstrate and champion the Trusts Values at all times.

The post holder would need to demonstrate energy, drive, and enthusiasm for the role.

The post holder would be expected to have excellent interpersonal skills.

Positive working behaviour is expected at all times.

The post holder would be expected to meet deadlines and deliver on all objectives set.

The Post Holder would need to demonstrate the highest level of accountability through their work.

The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give a broad flavour of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the post holder.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Is educated to degree level in relevant field.

Desirable

• 2 years mental health experience.
• Training in other psychological therapies.

Experience

Essential

• Experience in the following:
• Experience of psychological work with common mental health problems. Experience of short-term time limited work.
• Evidence of regular supervised practice.
• Experience of promoting wellbeing and social inclusion.

Desirable

• Experience of collaborative work in the NHS.
• Experience of working with a diverse client group with a wide range of presenting problems and significant levels of distress.
• Experience of delivering group work.
• Experience of delivering online therapy.

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Highly developed interpersonal skills and communication skills both oral and written.
• Ability to sustain intense levels of concentration responding and participating as required.
• Ability to self-reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately.
• Ability to cope and deal with highly distressing emotional circumstances. Ability to cope with unpleasant working conditions.
• Evidence of ability to organise own workload.
• Basic keyboard skills.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Broadway Medical Centre

Address

West View Health Village

Broadway

Fleetwood

Lancashire

FY7 8GU

Employer's website

https://www.broadwaymedicalcentre.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)