Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

To work as a member of the Impact on Teesside Talking Therapies team

To create and maintain effective working relationships within the wider 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 low intensity CBT interventions

To provide assessment including risk assessment of clients referred to Impact on Teesside, involving making decisions around treatment support pathways as well as supporting with any signposting and onward referrals where clients may require other services, including statutory and voluntary agencies.

To select and deliver a range of low intensity CBT interventions in collaboration with the client via a range of modalities, including telephone, face to face and group work.

To work within an appropriate time framework.

To maintain clients confidentiality within agreed guidelines.

To undertake the required training programme

To attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training element of the post. NB: Satisfactory completion of the training programme is a condition of continued employment.

To apply learning from the training programme in practice.

To attend university-based supervision in relation to course work to meet the required standards.

To work with an appropriate range and number of cases selected with the support of their Clinical Supervisor as suitable for the current stage of clinical skills development.

Safeguarding

Responsible for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults by always promoting the welfare of service users and operating within local policies and procedures.

Taking appropriate safeguarding action to protect children and vulnerable adults at risk of significant harm whilst receiving support and guidance from supervisors or senior members of staff and specialist teams.

Signposting and or referring families to Early Help services when required.

To share appropriate information with other agencies regarding the service users 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 PWP registration as per professional body guidance and as identified through Impacts Professional Development and Appraisal System.

To engage with the required amount of clinical and caseload management supervision from a qualified PWP supervisor within Impacts Supervision Programme and in line with PWP registration requirements.

To operate within agreed NHS Impact and professional guidelines and Codes of Practice.

To ensure a safe and secure working environment for self and others and to act 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.

Confidentiality

In the performance of their duties, the post-holder will have access to confidential information relating to clients and their care staff and others. They will also have access to information relating to Impact as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

Information relating to clients carersstaff other healthcare workers or Impact business may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with Impact policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

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 Impacts organisational objectives and priorities.

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to apply learning into practice, particularly in relation to assessment and treatment skills.
• Computer literate.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good understanding of issues surrounding clinical risk and safeguarding.
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.

Desirable

• Trained and experienced in delivering group support with clients/service users.

Qualifications

Essential

• Holds a relevant qualification of Level 5 or above (e.g. NVQ, DipHE), preferably linking to Healthcare/Psychology.
• Evidence of training in mental health and related issues.
• Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this.

Desirable

• Membership Accreditation
• registration with BACP, BABCP, UKCP, BPS or other recognised professional organisation.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a mental healthcare setting.
• Ongoing supervision of work with service users.
• 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 to moderate mental health problems, including anxiety and depression and how these may present in primary care.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the PWP role within NHS Talking Therapies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the issues around mental health and work, including 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.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• 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.
• The ability to act as an advocate for the service, with skills to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals within the wider health care system.
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
• Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users in the context of supervision and continued professional/personal development.

Other

Essential

• 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.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Alliance Psychological Services Limited

Address

Alliance Psychological Services Ltd

24 Yarm Road

Stockton-on-tees

Cleveland

TS18 3NA

Employer's website

https://www.alliancepsychology.com/ (Opens in a new tab)