Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
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Job Overview
We are looking for an innovative and experienced qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, who has extensive post-qualification experience, to co-lead, supervise and coordinate delivery or service targets across our step 2 team of PWPs, PWP trainees, and an Assistant Psychologist.
Hillingdon Talking Therapies is a high-performing, innovative, and friendly service that focuses on supporting our staff and developing clinical skills.
The Senior PWP role will involve consultation, education, and training on low-intensity interventions, as well as carrying a clinical caseload, and applicants should be committed to promoting staff wellbeing.
Experience of working with under-represented, diverse, and marginalized groups will be welcomed. Applications are also encouraged from PWPs who can deliver therapy in other languages, as well as experience of working with long-term health conditions, young people, older adults, perinatal work, and experience in men's mental health.
Main Duties of the Job
Applicants will be qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners from an accredited Low-intensity course and, at the time of application, at least 10 months of extensive post-qualification experience working with adults with a range of mental health problems and complexities, within a diverse population. The post holder should be accredited by the BABCP or BPS or should have submitted an application for accreditation.
This post requires a high level of communication skills, including effective liaison with key staff both within the service and the wider organization and NHS. The post holder must be able to demonstrate the ability to work under pressure within a new role in an expanding service and support the senior management team in reviewing protocols and systems.
The post holder will be expected to participate in extended hours clinics once a week offered by the service, which include early morning and late evening clinics from 8 am to 8 pm. The post holder is expected to be on site at Beaufort House for a minimum of two days per week. They will receive regular clinical supervision and line management supervision, and support from the Step 2 Leads.
Working for Our Organisation
The team has close links with teams within Hillingdon Mental Health Services and other Talking Therapies services within CNWL. There are also wider links with other services within CNWL Foundation Trust and the Trust-wide clinical psychology services.
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When working on site, the post holder will be based at the service's main hub at Beaufort House but may be required to undertake work at other areas within Hillingdon and community centers within the borough as appropriate.
The staff team provides services within GP surgeries as well as in other sites, including the central hub at Beaufort House in Uxbridge and the satellite hub at Mt Vernon Hospital in Northwood.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
CNWL Talking Therapies Service Hillingdon is a large and well-established team which has good training and development links and consistently meets its targets and the needs of the local population. Alongside high and low-intensity CBT interventions, the service also has a Step 3 Counseling and Relational Therapies provision. Individual and group-based treatments are provided as well as couples-based interventions, including innovative Perinatal services and Long-Term Conditions.
Please read the Job Description and Person Specifications for this post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualification from a Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression compliant PWP Training Course (Post Graduate Certificate or Level 3 undergraduate course)
Desirable criteria
- Further post-graduate CBT training in relevant areas of professional psychology, health, social science, and/or research design and analysis.
- A qualification or substantial experience in professional supervision.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post-qualification experience as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.
- Experience of supervising low-intensity workers and trainees.
- Consolidated and reflective supervised post-qualification experience, preferably in NHS or Social Services setting.
- Substantial experience of using IAPT to record patient data.
- Substantial experience of providing a range of low-intensity interventions within a Talking Therapies service, to people with common mental health problems.
- Experience of working by telephone, face-to-face with individual service users, and facilitating groups and group-based interventions.
- Experience and knowledge of risk assessment and risk management.
- Evidence of experience and knowledge of signposting to other services, including secondary care mental health services.
- Evidence of working with people with a range of mental health problems and presentations.
- Experience of managing a large workload and individual caseload.
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Desirable criteria
- Research/audit experience.
- Evidence of having worked in a service where agreed targets were in place to demonstrate effective clinical outcomes.
- Experience and knowledge of alternative treatment approaches including counseling.
- Previous line management experience.
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services.
- Evidence of working in the local community.
- Experience of working with older people/long-term health conditions/carers.
- Experience of screening, assessing, and working with a wide spectrum of mental health issues and working with people with moderate common mental health problems.
- Evidence of working within a service development role and the ability to coordinate across the service.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of different models of mental health/mental illness.
- Knowledge of working with diversity and knowledge of working with black, minority ethnic groups.
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet IAPT performance targets.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Evidence-based practice/clinical governance.
- Models of assessment, screening, referral, record-keeping, and evidence-based brief psychological intervention.
Desirable criteria
- Fluency in an additional (to English) locally relevant priority language.
- An awareness of serious mental health presentations (psychosis, bi-polar).
- Evidence of further training in psychological interventions/therapy.
Personal
Essential criteria
- An interest in working with people with mental health problems.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships with staff from all disciplines.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Ability to work independently, flexibly, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
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