Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

An exciting, new opportunity has arisen for x3 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs) to join our growing team here at MyWellbeing IAPT Service.

Who are we?MyWellbeing IAPT Service is an established, forward-thinking 'Improving Access to Psychological Therapies' (IAPT) service, providing psychological therapy for people across Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems.

What is the role?Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (LICBT) is a highly valued and fundamental part of what we do. Our PWPs develop psychological formulations for individual patients that contribute towards the overall assessment of their care needs, collaboratively establish individual patient's goals towards recovery, determine suitability of specific psychological interventions based on the patient's assessment/formulation and plan and deliver and review individual and group psychological interventions (including 1-1 face-to-face and remote sessions, groups and Computerised-CBT [cCBT] via SilverCloud modalities), for specific patients.

For full details of duties, please see job description/person spec.

Closing: 28th September 2022Shortlisting: 29th September 2022Interview/s: 7th October 2022

Main duties of the job

Develop psychological formulations for individual patients that contributetowards the overall assessment of their care needs

-Collaboratively establish individual patient's goals towards recovery.

-Determine suitability of specific psychological interventions, including group and individual modalities, based on the patient's assessment/formulation.

- Plan, deliver and review individual and group psychological interventions for specific patients.

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Additional cost of living payments for bands 1 - 7

Advanced Fuel expenses payment

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Date posted

05 September 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£27,055 to £32,934 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

453-22-4534061

Job locations

My Wellbeing IAPT Service - Somerset House

Manor Lane

Shipley

BD18 3BP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and the person specification for more details about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and the person specification for more details about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Qualification in Low Intensity CBT interventions, from an accredited course with the BPS
Registered & accredited PWP

Desirable

Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience.
Qualified psychological therapist

Experience

Essential

Experience in relevant area of mental health practise.
Application of evidenced based psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service.

Desirable

Lived experience of mental health as service user or carer
Involvement in innovative clinical practice.
Clinical leadership experience

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Qualification in Low Intensity CBT interventions, from an accredited course with the BPS
Registered & accredited PWP

Desirable

Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience.
Qualified psychological therapist

Experience

Essential

Experience in relevant area of mental health practise.
Application of evidenced based psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service.

Desirable

Lived experience of mental health as service user or carer
Involvement in innovative clinical practice.
Clinical leadership experience

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).