Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our multidisciplinary Team within the Occupational Health & Wellbeing Service at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Why?
We have recently completed a service redesign/re-structure to enable our focus to shift towards health promotion/wellbeing and the prevention of ill-health. This has seen significant investment by the Trust to support new ways of working and as such we are in the process of creating several new opportunities and roles.
This is an exciting opportunity to join and support us through this transition period and beyond allowing us to put staff health and wellbeing exactly where it belongs, at the heart of everything we do.
We have secured a new operational service based at Winwick, Warrington with satellite units in Sefton / Knowsley and Liverpool areas to support delivery of the service across the Trust footprint. We will also consider opportunities for remote working in line with operational demands.
Shortlisting planned for: 5 August 2024
Interview planned for: 12 August 2024 (subject to change)
Main duties of the job
Who do we want?
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced PWP to join our team. The postholder will be responsible forproviding a range of high volume, low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based interventions, to those experiencing mild to severe anxiety and depression.
The step 2 workforce is integral to the successful running of the OHWB Psychological Therapies service, helping to ensure the key performance indicators are being met. The post-holder will therefore work alongside the OHWB & Psychological Therapies team and will have managerial support from the OHWB Psychological Therapies Lead, as well as the wider management team.
For full/further details of the role along with the essential and desirable criteria please see the full job description
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for the full description of duties and responsibilities relevant for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for the full description of duties and responsibilities relevant for this role.
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE:
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in an occupational health setting and how this may differ from primary care.
- Proven relevant experience of working with people with common mental health problems.
- Ability to manage own workload and time.
- Ability to demonstrate high standards in written communication.
- Able to write clear reports and letters.
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
Desirable
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health.
- Knowledge of self-help materials for managing common mental health problems.
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
- Proven relevant experience of working in Primary Care Services or other relevant settings.
- Proven relevant experience of working in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.
- Proven relevant experience of working in the local community or relevant experience in other areas.
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
VALUES
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service user
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to evaluate and integrate training into practice.
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Advanced communication skill
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationship
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
- Ability to manage own workload and time.
- Ability to demonstrate high standards in written communication.
- Able to write clear reports and letters
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
Desirable
- Car driver and / or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the Liverpool area
- Fluent in community languages other than English
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE:
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in an occupational health setting and how this may differ from primary care.
- Proven relevant experience of working with people with common mental health problems.
- Ability to manage own workload and time.
- Ability to demonstrate high standards in written communication.
- Able to write clear reports and letters.
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
Desirable
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health.
- Knowledge of self-help materials for managing common mental health problems.
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
- Proven relevant experience of working in Primary Care Services or other relevant settings.
- Proven relevant experience of working in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.
- Proven relevant experience of working in the local community or relevant experience in other areas.
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
VALUES
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service user
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to evaluate and integrate training into practice.
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Advanced communication skill
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationship
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
- Ability to manage own workload and time.
- Ability to demonstrate high standards in written communication.
- Able to write clear reports and letters
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
Desirable
- Car driver and / or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the Liverpool area
- Fluent in community languages other than English
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.
