Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Job summary

Do you want to be instrumental in developing pathways and services to transform the way that care is delivered locally? Are you interested in improving the health of our local population? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, then we are looking for you.

Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust has developed and integrated primary care with community-based services within the Dudley healthcare system since 2020 with its core aim being community where possible and hospital when necessary. Our purpose is to improve the health and wellbeing of our local population in Dudley. We are currently working with organisations within the health care sector in Dudley and the Black Country System to look at the best way to continue to deliver the services to our patients. As such the services within the organisation may transfer to other organisations over the course of the next 12 months.

This is a trainee role within the Dudley NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression (DTT). The post-holder will work within the DTT service providing high volume low intensity interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role.

The training post will equip the post-holder to provide a range of low intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) based self-management interventions to clients at Step 2, with mild to moderate anxiety and depression across a range of media

Main duties of the job

• To provide comprehensive assessments and treatments for clients presenting with common mental health problems using evidence-based psychological principles and working within the context of primary care services.
• This will be delivered on a 1 to 1 or group basis via telephone, video or face to face. The role is based across the Dudley borough and travel will be required between sites where necessary, and the working week split will be subject to service need.
• To make decisions on suitability of new referrals into the service, and refer/signpost clients on to other relevant services or back to the referral agent as necessary.
• Offer patients a choice of treatment pathways available based on a stepped care model approach and NICE guidance.
• Deliver low intensity psychological treatments at step 2 of the stepped care model supporting patients with self-management of common mental health difficulties
• To conduct risk assessments with clients and to take appropriate action when necessary.
• Work closely with supervisors in line with the stepped care approach.
• To adhere to agreed clinical activity relating to the number of client contacts and clinical sessions
• To ensure and maintain clinical records and reports in accordance with Trust policies, procedures and professional standards
• To attend a university course & attend regular supervision sessions as required by the training programme.
• Keep up to date with mandatory training requirements and Continuous Professional Development

About us

DIHC is committed to embracing diversity and we recognise the need to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities we serve to enable us to achieve our purpose and commitment's.

We recognise that we are under-represented in a number of areas, and therefore want to positively encourage applications from individuals from black, Asian or other ethnically diverse groups, people with disabilities and people from the LGBT community.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

Flexible working options can also be discussed in more detail with the Recruiting Manager for the post, or line manager once in post as part of our Flexible Working Policy. Please be advised that requests will be considered based upon the service structure and service needs once in post.