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Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner London

Meridian Wellbeing

Full Time London 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today

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Avaliable Job Today Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Job description

Meridian Wellbeing is looking for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWP) Therapists to work in our Step 2 Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Service in Barnet.

This role is suitable for qualified therapists looking for an ad-hoc or part-time role to complement their existing commitments.

These are flexible part time posts with the potential to work around your preferred hours, and available for an immediate start.

Remote working is offered and will be considered.

The Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner will work within Meridian Wellbeing who is a partner of the Multilingual Wellbeing Service (MWS) consortium and is working to provide IAPT Services in Barnet.

The candidate will be expected to provide a range of evidence-based psychological interventions including guided self-help based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy principles, face to face and telephone treatment programmes and psycho-educational groups and workshops at a Band 5-6 level depending on experience.

The candidate will be to have obtained a University degree which can demonstrate their psychological ability. This would include courses such as Psychology or Health and Social Sciences. They would also need to have completed or be completing an accredited Post Graduate Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) training programme.

Previous experience in IAPT is beneficial.

The candidate will be expected to:

· Work within the guidelines and follow the procedures of the IAPT service

· Assess the suitability of referred clients for the IAPT service and signpost or refer unsuitable clients to the relevant service.

· To support people with common mental health problems in the self- management of their recovery by providing a range of information and support for evidence based low intensity psychological treatments which will include guided self-help. This may be face-face or telephone.

· To assist with the delivery of information/self-help material and support for self-help groups, under the supervision of a qualified mental health practitioner.

· To actively make use of clinical supervision for all client-related tasks in order to review and improve the effectiveness of interventions offered.

· Candidate must be available to offer flexibility

The service is a generic service, but we are also seeking therapists with the ability to provide therapeutic interventions in other languages. In particular we are looking for Arabic, Urdu, Gujarati, Turkish, Hindi, Bengali, Farsi, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Asian, Greek, Romanian and Somali speaking therapists. All other languages welcome too.

Job Types: Part-time

Salary: we offer competitive sessional rates

Job Type: Part-time

Benefits:

On-site parking
Work from home

COVID-19 considerations:
Remote working policies are currently in place across the organisation. Staff are expected to adhere to these policies, and return to operate on-site as the offices are prepared for safe operation with appropriate health and safety measures.

Experience: