Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

The role of the Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner is to develop and expand the low intensity service provision within Community Living Well in Kensington and Chelsea. The post holder will hold a qualification (post graduate diploma / certificate) in Low Intensity working, from an accredited course, will offer evidence-based practice in facilitated self-help, cCBT and psycho-educational groups and will develop, support and train innovative practice to qualified and trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, and to other workers qualified to act in low intensity worker roles.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting post for an experienced and confident Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to develop the role of Senior PWP to support our expanding Talking Therapies Service in Kensington and Chelsea. For the post, we are looking for someone who is passionate about the benefits and scope of low intensity interventions and who will innovate in our Step 2 team. Your role will include working together with the Step 2 lead to develop the Step 2 team, manage our outreach programme and increase our offer of low intensity interventions in the community.

There will be a focus on integrating and developing links with community resources in order to provide regular workshops and groups in community settings to increase access to the service.

You will also share the case management and line management responsibilities for the qualified and trainee PWP's in the service as well as hold a caseload of your own. Applicants must have post-qualification experience of working as a PWP in a Talking Therapies service, be highly competent in using IAPTus, have some experience of supporting other low intensity staff and have substantial group experience. You will be well-supported in the role by the service management team.

About us

Community Living Well is a large and busy integrated Talking Therapies service, providing step 2 and 3 interventions as well as support from our Employment support service, health Navigation and Peer Support, working to the Talking Therapies national service requirements. Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, PWP trainees and Assistant PWP's provide assessments and low intensity interventions as well as facilitating groups and outreach programmes.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Date posted

25 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£42,471 to £50,364 a year pa inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

333-J-KC-0804

Job locations

St Charles Hospital

Exmoor Street

London

W10 6DZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

To accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service
To assess and support people with a common mental health problem in the self management of their recovery
To undertake patient-centred interviews which identify areas where the person wishes to see change and or recovery and makes an accurate assessment of risk to self and others
To make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary or step up the persons treatment to high intensity psychological therapy
To provide a range of information and support for evidence based high-volume low-intensity psychological treatments. This may include guided self-help computerised CBT, information about pharmacological treatments. This work may be face to face, telephone or via other media
To educate and involve family members and others in treatment where necessary and appropriate
To adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient
To attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate
To complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service
To keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols and use these records and clinical outcome data in clinical decision making
To work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach
To assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process
To operate at all times from an inclusive values base that promotes recovery and recognises and respects diversity
To prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are delivered
To deal with a range of clients and clinical situations, including those involving highly emotive communication and the need to apply initiative, tact and persuasion in the face of psychological resistance
To generate links in the community in order to break down barriers of access for hard to reach client groups.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service
To assess and support people with a common mental health problem in the self management of their recovery
To undertake patient-centred interviews which identify areas where the person wishes to see change and or recovery and makes an accurate assessment of risk to self and others
To make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary or step up the persons treatment to high intensity psychological therapy
To provide a range of information and support for evidence based high-volume low-intensity psychological treatments. This may include guided self-help computerised CBT, information about pharmacological treatments. This work may be face to face, telephone or via other media
To educate and involve family members and others in treatment where necessary and appropriate
To adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient
To attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate
To complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service
To keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols and use these records and clinical outcome data in clinical decision making
To work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach
To assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process
To operate at all times from an inclusive values base that promotes recovery and recognises and respects diversity
To prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are delivered
To deal with a range of clients and clinical situations, including those involving highly emotive communication and the need to apply initiative, tact and persuasion in the face of psychological resistance
To generate links in the community in order to break down barriers of access for hard to reach client groups.

Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

Qualification from an IAPT compliant PWP Training Course (Post Graduate Certificate or Level 3 undergraduate course)

Desirable

Have completed Supervision of PWP training and/or LTC training

Experience

Essential

Significant post qualification experience as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Experience of supervising low intensity workers and trainees
Substantial experience of using IAPTus to record patient data
Substantial experience of providing a range of low intensity interventions within an IAPT service, to people with common mental health problems
Experience of working by telephone, face-to-face with individual service users and facilitating groups and group based interventions
Experience and knowledge of risk assessment and risk management
Experience of managing a large workload and individual caseload

Desirable

Research / audit experience.
Experience and knowledge of alternative treatment approaches including counselling
Evidence of working in the local community.
Experience of working with older people/long term health conditions/carers
Experience of screening, assessing and working with a wide spectrum of mental health issues and working with people with moderate common mental health problems
Previous line management experience

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of NHS policies, procedures and guidelines
Knowledge of working with diversity and knowledge of working with black, minority ethnic groups
Evidence-based practice/clinical governance
Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes
Knowledge of Child Protection and safeguarding legislation
An ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
An ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively

Desirable

An awareness of serious mental health presentations (psychosis, bi-polar)
Evidence of further training in psychological interventions/therapy

Personal

Essential

An interest in working with people with mental health problems.
Ability to work independently, flexibly, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.

Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

Qualification from an IAPT compliant PWP Training Course (Post Graduate Certificate or Level 3 undergraduate course)

Desirable

Have completed Supervision of PWP training and/or LTC training

Experience

Essential

Significant post qualification experience as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Experience of supervising low intensity workers and trainees
Substantial experience of using IAPTus to record patient data
Substantial experience of providing a range of low intensity interventions within an IAPT service, to people with common mental health problems
Experience of working by telephone, face-to-face with individual service users and facilitating groups and group based interventions
Experience and knowledge of risk assessment and risk management
Experience of managing a large workload and individual caseload

Desirable

Research / audit experience.
Experience and knowledge of alternative treatment approaches including counselling
Evidence of working in the local community.
Experience of working with older people/long term health conditions/carers
Experience of screening, assessing and working with a wide spectrum of mental health issues and working with people with moderate common mental health problems
Previous line management experience

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of NHS policies, procedures and guidelines
Knowledge of working with diversity and knowledge of working with black, minority ethnic groups
Evidence-based practice/clinical governance
Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes
Knowledge of Child Protection and safeguarding legislation
An ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
An ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively

Desirable

An awareness of serious mental health presentations (psychosis, bi-polar)
Evidence of further training in psychological interventions/therapy

Personal

Essential

An interest in working with people with mental health problems.
Ability to work independently, flexibly, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.

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.

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