Job summary
We are recruiting for a qualified Senior IAPT Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner with a desire to make a difference and want to further their knowledge, skill and experience in a supportive and progressive environment.
Health in Mind is an IAPT service providing evidence-based treatments for people with depression and/or a range of anxiety-based difficulties within primary care. Please see our website for further information on https://www.healthinmind.org.uk/.
This is a permanent, full-time post (37.5 hours per week) though we will consider applications from those that wish to work flexibly and are open to discussions around remote and home working. We cover the whole of East Sussex (with the exception of Brighton and Hove) and the successful applicant will be assigned to a more specific geographical locality upon appointment.
Main duties of the job
Health in Mind is a large primary care mental health service that serves the people of East Sussex, with the exception of Brighton and Hove. You will be working within a defined geographical area (to be determined upon appointment), delivering telephone or Online video appointments as well as some face to face appointments where needed, although flexibility in appointment types can be discussed at interview.
As a Senior PWP practitioner in Health in Mind you will be supporting the PWP Team Lead with development and implementation of service improvement plans and performance monitoring. You will also be responsible for the clinical supervision and case management of both trainee and qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners. You will receive support from our Senior Clinicians and your team lead in the form of case management and clinical supervision
About us
The client's experience of our service is very important to us. We work towards supporting clients in their recovery by offering evidence-based therapy with therapists who receive regular and supportive supervision and regular CPD. We promote service user involvement. Health in Mind has a Service User Steering Group which provides valuable input to our service design and delivery. We care about our staff. We have a staff-wellbeing-champions team, and are committed to staff engagement. We know that for our clinicians to do a good job they need to feel supported. There is opportunity for varied and flexible working patterns and home working and working hours can be discussed in the interview. We are keen for our clinicians to grow. We aim to offer staff individual appraisals with the opportunity to become involved in a range of activities, such as group-based interventions, teaching, supervision and service development
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide case management and clinical supervision to Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and
Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners
- To maintain high professional standards and attend clinical and managerial supervision
- To support the PWP Team Lead in managing the waiting lists and systems for Step 2
assessments and interventions.
- To ensure accurate maintenance of clinical records and outcome measures on the clinical data
system, and support staff in maintaining accurate records.
- To ensure patient satisfaction questionnaires and service reviews are completed
- To support the implementation of step care model of delivery of psychological interventions
to clients within a primary care setting in line with NICE guidelines.
- To work with the PWP Lead in the ongoing development and support of best practice and
innovation within the Step 2 Team.
- To provide high volume low intensity short term treatments in accordance with the IAPT model
- To undertake initial assessments and gather sufficient information to assess risk /complexity of
clients' needs, including drug and alcohol use, current and past medical psychiatric history, and biosocial aspects of the clients situation, making onward referral as necessary..
- To be responsible for ensuring own and others clinical practice complies with Data Protection /
Confidentiality / Caldicott Principles
- To manage a balanced workload of individual therapy for clients with the management and
- leadership roles of this post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide case management and clinical supervision to Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and
Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners
- To maintain high professional standards and attend clinical and managerial supervision
- To support the PWP Team Lead in managing the waiting lists and systems for Step 2
assessments and interventions.
- To ensure accurate maintenance of clinical records and outcome measures on the clinical data
system, and support staff in maintaining accurate records.
- To ensure patient satisfaction questionnaires and service reviews are completed
- To support the implementation of step care model of delivery of psychological interventions
to clients within a primary care setting in line with NICE guidelines.
- To work with the PWP Lead in the ongoing development and support of best practice and
innovation within the Step 2 Team.
- To provide high volume low intensity short term treatments in accordance with the IAPT model
- To undertake initial assessments and gather sufficient information to assess risk /complexity of
clients' needs, including drug and alcohol use, current and past medical psychiatric history, and biosocial aspects of the clients situation, making onward referral as necessary..
- To be responsible for ensuring own and others clinical practice complies with Data Protection /
Confidentiality / Caldicott Principles
- To manage a balanced workload of individual therapy for clients with the management and
- leadership roles of this post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate/Graduate Certificate in Psychological Wellbeing Practice (Low intensity)
- A qualification or substantial experience in Professional Supervision
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- post qualifying experience of working with people in a mental health primary care setting
- Ability to demonstrate a range of post-qualifying experiences in offering and delivering the range of evidence-based IAPT low intensity interventions such as guided self-help and group psycho-education
- Substantial experience of screening, assessing and working with a wide spectrum of mental health issues and working with people with mild to moderate common mental health problems.
- Substantial experience of risk assessment and management/referral on.
- Substantial experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork.
- Experience of providing supervision to qualified and trainee PWPs
- Good understanding of models of assessment, screening, referral, record-keeping and evidence based brief psychological intervention.
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
- Understands how IAPT is delivered and the key challenges and opportunities this delivery model presents for both the service and practitioners
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate/Graduate Certificate in Psychological Wellbeing Practice (Low intensity)
- A qualification or substantial experience in Professional Supervision
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- post qualifying experience of working with people in a mental health primary care setting
- Ability to demonstrate a range of post-qualifying experiences in offering and delivering the range of evidence-based IAPT low intensity interventions such as guided self-help and group psycho-education
- Substantial experience of screening, assessing and working with a wide spectrum of mental health issues and working with people with mild to moderate common mental health problems.
- Substantial experience of risk assessment and management/referral on.
- Substantial experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork.
- Experience of providing supervision to qualified and trainee PWPs
- Good understanding of models of assessment, screening, referral, record-keeping and evidence based brief psychological intervention.
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
- Understands how IAPT is delivered and the key challenges and opportunities this delivery model presents for both the service and practitioners
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
