Job summary
Alliance Psychological
Services is an independent provider of counselling and psychological therapy
services based in the Tees Valley area and are working across the North-East
region. We are working in partnership with Middlesbrough & Stockton Mind to
deliver the IMPACT on Teesside service.
We understand that some PWPs do not wish to pursue a career in management
but acknowledge the need for opportunities to develop clinically and for this
to be recognised where qualifications, such as the PWP LTC top up training and
PWP Supervisor’s course, have been completed.
We are excited to
share that we are recruiting for qualified, Enhanced Psychological Wellbeing
Practitioners. This is an excellent opportunity
to be part of an innovative service providing Low Intensity (LI) interventions within
our IAPT pathway, working with adults aged 16+ within the framework of the
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme. You will hold an IAPT PWP recognised qualification,
as well as the PWP LTC Top Up training and/or the PWP Supervisor’s Course qualification(s). You will be actively
delivering LI interventions to patients requiring Step 2 treatment within the
Long-Term Conditions pathway and/or delivering Caseload Management and Clinical Supervision to PWPs. Practice
will include face to face, telephone, and digital based work, with opportunities
to be involved in the delivery of groupwork.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for individuals who are enthusiastic, hardworking and can
meet specified targets to deliver a high-quality Primary Care Mental Health
Service. In return, you will receive a high standard of support from management
and supervision, as well as further development opportunities.
Successful applicants
will be employed by one of organisations within the partnership which
will be discussed at appointment.
You must have the right
to work in the UK and hold PWP registration through the BABCP or BPS (or be
actively working towards achieving this).
We have hybrid working
and fully remote opportunities available – please specify any preferences
within your application form.
Full time and Part time positions available
For more information on
this post please contact us on enquiries@impactonteesside.com.
Closing date for applications may be extended
We are reviewing applications as they are submitted and will contact candidates to arrange interviews if applicable.
Whilst we continue to offer a range of ways for people to
access our services including face-to-face appointments across the Teesside
area we are also able to consider an element of remote delivery and will be happy to discuss options
for hybrid working in line with patient and service needs.
About us
Alliance
offers first rate training and development opportunities, 38 days annual leave
pro rata, rising 1 day every 5 years of service (as well as the option to
purchase additional annual leave) EAP health scheme including costs towards eye
tests/glasses, dental treatment, physio treatment and shopping discounts
alongside a 3% contributory pension scheme. We offer lots of health and
wellbeing initiatives for our staff and promote flexible working for a positive
work life balance
At
Mind, our staff are at the very core of all we do. To offer the best possible
services we need the best possible people within our team. We aim to offer
varied and rewarding roles with substantial development opportunities. We hope
that we offer a sense of community and a sense of belonging to something
meaningful. We have a commitment to equality and diversity and it's our aim to
employ a representative workforce
IMPACT
has responsibility for safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults within
our service, part of this is to follow safer recruitment of staff for all
appointments. It is also a requirement that all staff understand it is each
person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and
safeguarding the welfare of our clients
Due to the
nature of these roles, an enhanced criminal records disclosure will be sought
in the event of a successful application
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Postholder will provide a range of
evidence-based psychological low intensity interventions within the framework
of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme, as part of
Impact’s Primary Care Psychological Therapies Service across the Teesside area.
The postholder will have completed the PWP Long
Term Conditions Top Up training and/or the PWP Supervisor’s course and
will therefore be actively working with LTC clients and/or delivering
supervision to PWPs within their role.
The
post-holder will also work within Impact’s duty team where they will offer psychological
assessment and support to patients referred into the service.
This
position may require flexible hours between 8am until 8pm weekdays.
The
postholder should be registered through the BABCP or BPS or be actively working
towards achieving this.
Main
Duties and Responsibilities
To
work as a member of the Impact Team
- To
create and maintain effective working relationships within the Impact Team
and elsewhere.
- To
offer advice and support to other members of the wider Primary Care Team,
including GPs and other Health Professionals, on mental health issues, and
in relation to appropriate referral pathways for patients with mental
health needs.
- To
liaise effectively with Secondary Care and voluntary sector organisations
and services.
- To
attend meetings and provide reports as required.
- To
assist in the development and promotion of the service.
To provide
a range of therapeutic interventions
- To provide assessment, including risk assessment,
of clients referred for psychological therapy within the Primary Care setting.
- To hold a clinical caseload for clients
requiring a Step 2 intervention – this will include offering treatment to
those clients requiring a Step 2 intervention within the service’s Long
Term Conditions pathway should the PWP hold the PWP LTC Top Up training.
- To select and deliver a range of
appropriate low intensity interventions in collaboration with the client
via a range of modalities, including telephone, face to face, digital and
group work.
- To work within an appropriate time
framework.
- To make appropriate onward referrals
following assessment for clients requiring other services, including statutory
and voluntary agencies.
- To maintain clients’ confidentiality
within agreed guidelines
To
provide supervision to others within the Impact Team (if postholder holds PWP
Supervision Qualification)
- To deliver Caseload Management and
Clinical Supervision to other PWPs within the team. This may also include offering
supervision to Mental Health Support Workers and/or Assistant Practitioners.
- To offer duty supervision to those
staff working into the service’s Assessment Hub.
Safeguarding
- Responsible
for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults by always promoting the
welfare of service users and operating within local policies and procedures.
- Under
guidance and support taking appropriate safeguarding action to protect children
and vulnerable adults at risk of significant harm.
- Under
guidance and supervision to identify and support families in accessing
Early Help Services.
- To
share appropriate information with other agencies regarding the service user’s
wellbeing and progress keeping within the boundaries of Confidentiality
and Information sharing protocols.
To
provide a professional and ethical service
- To maintain appropriate records including
all required assessment and evaluation tools.
- To undertake relevant Continuing
Professional Development activities both as required for the purposes of
continued professional accreditation or registration and as identified
through Impact’s Professional Development and Appraisal System.
- To undertake an appropriate amount of clinical
supervision from a qualified Clinical Supervisor within Impact’s
Supervision Programme.
- To actively hold and maintain PWP
registration through the BABCP or BPS and uphold professional guidelines and
Codes of Practice in relation to this. To also operate within agreed NHS
England guidelines.
- To ensure a safe and secure working
environment for self and others and to take action as necessary within
Health and Safety and other guidelines.
- To adhere to all Impact Policies, Procedures
and Guidelines.
- To promote and value the rights,
responsibilities and diversity of people using the Service.
This job description is designed to
identify principal responsibilities only.
The post holder is required to be flexible in developing the role in
accordance with changes in Impact’s organisational objectives and
priorities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Postholder will provide a range of
evidence-based psychological low intensity interventions within the framework
of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme, as part of
Impact’s Primary Care Psychological Therapies Service across the Teesside area.
The postholder will have completed the PWP Long
Term Conditions Top Up training and/or the PWP Supervisor’s course and
will therefore be actively working with LTC clients and/or delivering
supervision to PWPs within their role.
The
post-holder will also work within Impact’s duty team where they will offer psychological
assessment and support to patients referred into the service.
This
position may require flexible hours between 8am until 8pm weekdays.
The
postholder should be registered through the BABCP or BPS or be actively working
towards achieving this.
Main
Duties and Responsibilities
To
work as a member of the Impact Team
- To
create and maintain effective working relationships within the Impact Team
and elsewhere.
- To
offer advice and support to other members of the wider Primary Care Team,
including GPs and other Health Professionals, on mental health issues, and
in relation to appropriate referral pathways for patients with mental
health needs.
- To
liaise effectively with Secondary Care and voluntary sector organisations
and services.
- To
attend meetings and provide reports as required.
- To
assist in the development and promotion of the service.
To provide
a range of therapeutic interventions
- To provide assessment, including risk assessment,
of clients referred for psychological therapy within the Primary Care setting.
- To hold a clinical caseload for clients
requiring a Step 2 intervention – this will include offering treatment to
those clients requiring a Step 2 intervention within the service’s Long
Term Conditions pathway should the PWP hold the PWP LTC Top Up training.
- To select and deliver a range of
appropriate low intensity interventions in collaboration with the client
via a range of modalities, including telephone, face to face, digital and
group work.
- To work within an appropriate time
framework.
- To make appropriate onward referrals
following assessment for clients requiring other services, including statutory
and voluntary agencies.
- To maintain clients’ confidentiality
within agreed guidelines
To
provide supervision to others within the Impact Team (if postholder holds PWP
Supervision Qualification)
- To deliver Caseload Management and
Clinical Supervision to other PWPs within the team. This may also include offering
supervision to Mental Health Support Workers and/or Assistant Practitioners.
- To offer duty supervision to those
staff working into the service’s Assessment Hub.
Safeguarding
- Responsible
for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults by always promoting the
welfare of service users and operating within local policies and procedures.
- Under
guidance and support taking appropriate safeguarding action to protect children
and vulnerable adults at risk of significant harm.
- Under
guidance and supervision to identify and support families in accessing
Early Help Services.
- To
share appropriate information with other agencies regarding the service user’s
wellbeing and progress keeping within the boundaries of Confidentiality
and Information sharing protocols.
To
provide a professional and ethical service
- To maintain appropriate records including
all required assessment and evaluation tools.
- To undertake relevant Continuing
Professional Development activities both as required for the purposes of
continued professional accreditation or registration and as identified
through Impact’s Professional Development and Appraisal System.
- To undertake an appropriate amount of clinical
supervision from a qualified Clinical Supervisor within Impact’s
Supervision Programme.
- To actively hold and maintain PWP
registration through the BABCP or BPS and uphold professional guidelines and
Codes of Practice in relation to this. To also operate within agreed NHS
England guidelines.
- To ensure a safe and secure working
environment for self and others and to take action as necessary within
Health and Safety and other guidelines.
- To adhere to all Impact Policies, Procedures
and Guidelines.
- To promote and value the rights,
responsibilities and diversity of people using the Service.
This job description is designed to
identify principal responsibilities only.
The post holder is required to be flexible in developing the role in
accordance with changes in Impact’s organisational objectives and
priorities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualification from PWP Training Course (Post Graduate Certificate) OR UCAPD PWP qualification.
- Approaches to Long Term Conditions for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners AND/OR PWP Supervision Training.
- PWP registration through BPS or BABCP (or actively working towards achieving this).
- Evidence of training in mental health and related issues.
- Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this.
Other Skills and Qualities
Essential
- Skills and Abilities
- Skills in assessment, formulation and treatment of a range of psychological presentations.
- Skills in developing and implementing focused, time limited treatment plans.
- Computer literate.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Good understanding of issues surrounding clinical risk.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Personal Qualities
- High level of motivation.
- Advanced communication skills.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- 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 and in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals of the service with the wider health care system.
- Act in ways that support equality and promotes diversity.
Desirable
- Access to transport to travel to locations throughout the organisation with appropriate business insurance.
- Fluent in languages other than English.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a mental healthcare setting.
- Ongoing clinical supervision of therapeutic work.
- Awareness of or familiarity with a range of therapeutic approaches, in particular CBT-based interventions.
- Ability to meet agreed or specified service targets.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time.
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication.
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers.
- Demonstrates an understanding of a range of mild moderate mental health problems including anxiety and depression and how it may present in primary care.
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health/benefits and employment systems.
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.
Desirable
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services
- Experience in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
- Trained and experienced in groupwork
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualification from PWP Training Course (Post Graduate Certificate) OR UCAPD PWP qualification.
- Approaches to Long Term Conditions for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners AND/OR PWP Supervision Training.
- PWP registration through BPS or BABCP (or actively working towards achieving this).
- Evidence of training in mental health and related issues.
- Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this.
Other Skills and Qualities
Essential
- Skills and Abilities
- Skills in assessment, formulation and treatment of a range of psychological presentations.
- Skills in developing and implementing focused, time limited treatment plans.
- Computer literate.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Good understanding of issues surrounding clinical risk.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Personal Qualities
- High level of motivation.
- Advanced communication skills.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- 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 and in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals of the service with the wider health care system.
- Act in ways that support equality and promotes diversity.
Desirable
- Access to transport to travel to locations throughout the organisation with appropriate business insurance.
- Fluent in languages other than English.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a mental healthcare setting.
- Ongoing clinical supervision of therapeutic work.
- Awareness of or familiarity with a range of therapeutic approaches, in particular CBT-based interventions.
- Ability to meet agreed or specified service targets.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time.
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication.
- Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers.
- Demonstrates an understanding of a range of mild moderate mental health problems including anxiety and depression and how it may present in primary care.
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health/benefits and employment systems.
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.
Desirable
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services
- Experience in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
- Trained and experienced in groupwork
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.