Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Braintree, England

Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Full Time Braintree, England 32306 - 39027 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

We are recruiting a full time Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner with at least two years experience as a qualified PWP; supervisory experience is preferred.

We're a well-established and friendly service who are due to service expansion looking for an enthusiastic Senior PWP to join our team. We welcome applicants from those who enjoy variety, new experiences and autonomy.

You will benefit from a culture of energy, innovation and support! We are investing in staff with:

  • A stable, supportive and engaging working environment where no two days are the same.
  • A healthy work-life balance with a hybrid working week - our staff work at home on some days and on site other days
  • A values driven environment - our Trust Values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional, underpin how we treat each other and our clients.
  • Reflective practice, excellent case management and clinical skills supervision.
You will be an integral part of the management team, Mid Essex Talking Therapies is an innovative team, with opportunities to develop new skills and focus on areas of treatment that you are interested in.

This post is a development opportunity for an experienced PWP to learn new management and leadership skills, whilst still working clinically several days a week.

We are looking for someone who is dynamic, organised, and interested in developing new pathways in the service, (eg Long term conditions), and who will take the lead in the team on CCBT, groupwork as well as supporting trainees, and other PWP's.

Your main responsibilities will include:
  • Lead on specialist interests & service development within the Step 2 Team.
  • Provide supervision of staff.
  • Supervise trainee's and apprentice PWPS and support them through their course
  • Supporting the Step 2 Lead/Senior Management Team to ensure the smooth operation of the Step 2 team.
  • Supporting and inducting new staff to the Step 2 Team.
  • Working with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary. You should be committed to equal opportunities.
  • Leading on Clinical skills supervision
Please see the attached Job Pack for full details about this role.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on…

The post-holder will:
  • Hold a recognised IAPT qualification in low intensity (step 2) working.
  • Offer evidence-based practice in guided self-help, cCBT and psycho-educational groups.
  • Develop, support and supervise trainee and qualified IAPT psychological wellbeing practitioners within the service.
  • In addition, there is a significant case management component to the post and a potential clinical supervision component.
  • The post holder will work with clients experiencing common mental health problems at the service based in Braintree, as well as various community settings including GP surgeries.
  • The post holder will supervise trainee and qualified psychological wellbeing practitioners.
  • All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
Job Responsibilities:
  • Undertake appropriate clinical supervision on a regular basis in accordance with the relevant professional guidelines and policies.
  • Take personal responsibility for achieving agreed clinical activity in accordance with service policies.
  • To develop an area of special interest, to the level whereby the post-holder could become a resource of information for the whole service.
  • Adhere to the policies and procedures of Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust.
  • Maintain appropriate clinical records in keeping with service operational policy.
  • Participate in setting and review of objectives for the post on an annual basis.
  • Participate in activities of 'continuing professional development' (CPD) on an annual basis.
  • Attend professional meetings as appropriate.
  • Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.
  • Co-ordinate and liaise between different staff groups including Assistant psychologists and High Intensity Therapists.
  • Support the development and delivery of interactive psycho-education within a CBT framework to large groups of Service Users.
  • Contribute to the systematic clinical governance of the service.
  • Proactively take responsibility for attending supervision, case management and line management regularly, participate in objective setting, performance reviews and respond to agreed objectives.
  • Be aware of and comply with the policies, procedures and standards of the service.

Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

www.nhs.uk
London, United Kingdom
Amanda Pritchard
$5 to $25 million (USD)
10000+ Employees
Government
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1946
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