Job summary
We are looking for two dynamic, highly motivated and skilled individuals who will complement our talking therapies service and work alongside the lower intensity clinical leads. They will be able to provide clinical skills and case managerial supervisions to the Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and trainees. They will also need to have good knowledge and understanding of the lower intensity psychological interventions and hold the psychological Wellbeing practitioner qualification.
As part of the role, you will be expected to work within the leadership team, Triage and assess suitability for the psychological treatments within the service. You will also be expected to deliver lower intensity psychological evidenced based treatments for depression and anxiety disorders. Our modalities of treatments include digital therapy using Silvercloud and short psychological disorder specific courses and one to one guided self help via face to face, digital and telephone.
You will be required to hold PWP registration with the British Psychological Society (BPS) or The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).
The contracted hours are full-time (37.5 hours per week) with a blended delivery of working in the office and remote working from home in a confidential space. There will need to be some flexibility to suit needs of the service. We have one post in our Worcester locality based at the Wulstan Unit and the other is in Malvern.
Main duties of the job
Senior PWP will support the PWPs and Trainees to learn and develop their skills around screening patients suitability for the service and treating patients using step 2 interventions based on the principles of CBT for mild to moderate depression and anxiety disorders. Intervention will be delivered via a combination of telephone, digital, psychoeducational courses and one-to-one.
Senior PWP will offer weekly case managerial supervision and clinical skills group supervision two hours a month. This will be for all the PWPs in the locality you are based within. You will also be responsible for guiding and mentoring the Trainee PWPS throughout their university course.
As a Senior PWP you will be responsible to work alongside the lower intensity clinical lead within the locality and wider service and other Senior PWPs and the leadership team.
As part of your role you will also be supporting the team with treatment allocations and meeting clinical activity development work and lots more exciting tasks.
Your focus will be on providing excellent patient care and treatment supported of cutting-edge Low Intensity Psychological Interventions within primary care mental health. You will support the delivery of training, education and close partnership working, maintaining effective communications with both internal and external partners.
About us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust,
we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals
and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health
and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of
all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over
100 sites.
We will support you to thrive; offer flexible
working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions,
and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value
diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures,
and ethnicities.
What we offer;
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27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to
33 days with long service
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Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work
unsocial hours
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Flexible and agile working opportunities
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Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
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Wide range of supportive staff networks
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Health and wellbeing opportunities
If you would like to know more, please visit our
website.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Talking Therapies is a dynamic talking therapies service that strives for balance between meeting locally commissioned targets, clinical effectiveness, and patient-centred care.
The Senior PWP role is designed for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners who would like to progress into supervising and leadership. You will need experience of working as a Psychological Wellbeing practitioner in a talking therapy service with adults with mental health problems or difficulties. Holding supervisory qualification or working towards this is essential.
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Talking Therapies is a dynamic talking therapies service that strives for balance between meeting locally commissioned targets, clinical effectiveness, and patient-centred care.
The Senior PWP role is designed for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners who would like to progress into supervising and leadership. You will need experience of working as a Psychological Wellbeing practitioner in a talking therapy service with adults with mental health problems or difficulties. Holding supervisory qualification or working towards this is essential.
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in primary care.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding employment and the impact it can have on mental health/benefits and employment systems.
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post and an understanding of the stepped care model.
- Knowledge of child and adult safeguarding issues and relevant legislation.
- Knowledge of mental health disorders that present in both primary care and secondary care.
- Knowledge of current mental health NHS policies/procedures/legislation/guidelines/practices/trends/developments.
- Knowledge of how mental health services can contribute to individuals recovery.
- Knowledge of diversity and equality issues.
- Knowledge of supervision models used for step 2.
- Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in primary care mental health services.
- Demonstrable experience of working in a CBT service for clients with mild to moderate mental health problems.
- Previously worked in a service where agreed targets are in place, demonstrating clinical outcomes.
- Evidence of working with patients who have experienced anxiety and depression within a primary care setting.
- Significant experience (2 years or more) of successfully treating a range of presenting problems with low intensity psychological interventions (e.g. depression, panic, GAD, sleep, specific phobias).
- Significant experience in screening and assessing clients for Talking Therapies service.
- Experience in delivery of psychoeducational short courses, digital therapy, telephone guided self-help, one to one therapy, and signposting to third party agencies and other community services.
- Experience of accurate and detailed assessment and management of risk, through telephone and face to face communications.
- Demonstrates high standards in written and verbal communication.
- Experience of delivery of step 2 supervision to others.
- Experience of managing a caseload of high-volume patients.
- Experience of working with risk and managing this.
- Experience of partnership and multidisciplinary working.
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualification in Post Graduate low intensity psychological interventions (PWP adult training) or equivalent.
- Qualification in supervision of PWPs (PWP adult training).
- I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
Desirable
- Evidence of further training in psychological interventions and therapy.
Additional criteria
Essential
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the role
- Positive and flexible attitude to work. Be willing to work outside normal office hours as the service demands
- Travel from base to base and for training
- Working in office base as well as some remote working
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in primary care.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding employment and the impact it can have on mental health/benefits and employment systems.
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post and an understanding of the stepped care model.
- Knowledge of child and adult safeguarding issues and relevant legislation.
- Knowledge of mental health disorders that present in both primary care and secondary care.
- Knowledge of current mental health NHS policies/procedures/legislation/guidelines/practices/trends/developments.
- Knowledge of how mental health services can contribute to individuals recovery.
- Knowledge of diversity and equality issues.
- Knowledge of supervision models used for step 2.
- Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in primary care mental health services.
- Demonstrable experience of working in a CBT service for clients with mild to moderate mental health problems.
- Previously worked in a service where agreed targets are in place, demonstrating clinical outcomes.
- Evidence of working with patients who have experienced anxiety and depression within a primary care setting.
- Significant experience (2 years or more) of successfully treating a range of presenting problems with low intensity psychological interventions (e.g. depression, panic, GAD, sleep, specific phobias).
- Significant experience in screening and assessing clients for Talking Therapies service.
- Experience in delivery of psychoeducational short courses, digital therapy, telephone guided self-help, one to one therapy, and signposting to third party agencies and other community services.
- Experience of accurate and detailed assessment and management of risk, through telephone and face to face communications.
- Demonstrates high standards in written and verbal communication.
- Experience of delivery of step 2 supervision to others.
- Experience of managing a caseload of high-volume patients.
- Experience of working with risk and managing this.
- Experience of partnership and multidisciplinary working.
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualification in Post Graduate low intensity psychological interventions (PWP adult training) or equivalent.
- Qualification in supervision of PWPs (PWP adult training).
- I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
Desirable
- Evidence of further training in psychological interventions and therapy.
Additional criteria
Essential
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the role
- Positive and flexible attitude to work. Be willing to work outside normal office hours as the service demands
- Travel from base to base and for training
- Working in office base as well as some remote working
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).
Additional information
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).
