IAPT Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Job summary

Mind Matters Surrey IAPT NHS is looking to recruit a full time Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner for 6 months.

The post will be remote. There are opportunities to work with people across teams and telephone.

Successful applicants with sufficient post qualifying experience will be given the opportunity for further development through a variety of Champion and lead roles across the Step 2 Team. Newly qualified candidates can join our new preceptorship programme where we support and develop our newly qualified staff, gently easing them into their qualified roles.

Before applying please ensure that you can meet the minimum criteria for applying;

We would like to hear from you if you can demonstrate your commitment to providing high quality care and psychological treatment at Step 2 within an IAPT service. Before applying please ensure that you can meet the minimum criteria for applying;

• NHS Talking Therapies Qualification as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
• Registration as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner with either BABCP or BPS
• Experience of working in IAPT
• Good IT skills and excellent communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative way with colleagues and other services

Main duties of the job

As a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, your main duties will be to conduct assessments with people experiencing a range of mental health difficulties, identifying areas for change, and identifying what the most appropriate treatment pathways would be.

This might include making referrals to other services, or offering treatments within Mind Matters. You will also be providing low intensity CBT interventions to individuals experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, promoting self-management of their own recovery.

About us

Mind Matters Surrey IAPT has been operational since 2013 and is part of the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust. We are a fast growing, primary care mental health service offering high quality evidence based psychological therapies for people with common mental health problems.

Mind Matters Surrey IAPT services provides Talking Therapies treatments between 8.30am - 8.00pm Monday to Wednesday and office hours, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. There is a requirement to work a minimum of 2 late nights or one late night and a Saturday.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Eligibility to high cost area supplement is conditional upon candidates residence and will be discussed on offer.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Unither House

Curfew Bell Road

Chertsey

KT16 9FG

Employer's website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Unither House

Curfew Bell Road

Chertsey

KT16 9FG

Employer's website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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