Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
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Job Overview
The role of the Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner is to develop and expand the low intensity service provision within Community Living Well in Kensington and Chelsea. The post holder will hold a qualification (post graduate diploma / certificate) in Low Intensity working, from an accredited course, will offer evidence-based practice in facilitated self-help and psycho-educational groups and will develop, support and train innovative practice to qualified and trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, and to other workers qualified to act in low intensity worker roles.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting post for an experienced and confident Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to develop the role of Senior PWP to support our expanding Talking Therapies Service in Kensington and Chelsea. For the post, we are looking for someone who is passionate about the benefits and scope of low intensity interventions and who will innovate in our Step 2 team. Your role will include working together with the Step 2 lead to develop the Step 2 team, manage our group programme and increase our offer of low intensity interventions in the community.
You will be responsible for the supervision of a trainee/s PWP in the service as well as hold a caseload of your own. Applicants must have post-qualification experience of working as a PWP in a Talking Therapies service, be highly competent in using IAPTus, have some experience of supporting other low intensity staff and have substantial group experience. You will be well-supported in the role by the service management team.
Working for our organisation
Community Living Well is a large and busy integrated Talking Therapies service, providing step 2 and 3 interventions as well as support from our Employment support service, health Navigation and Peer Support, working to the Talking Therapies national service requirements. Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and PWP trainees provide assessments and low intensity interventions as well as facilitating groups and outreach programmes.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- To accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service
- To assess and support people with a common mental health problem in the self management of their recovery
- To undertake patient-centred interviews which identify areas where the person wishes to see change and or recovery and makes an accurate assessment of risk to self and others
- To make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary or step up the person’s treatment to high intensity psychological therapy
- To provide a range of information and support for evidence based high-volume low-intensity psychological treatments. This work may be face to face, telephone or via other media
- To educate and involve family members and others in treatment where necessary and appropriate
- To adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient
- To attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate
- To complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service
- To keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols and use these records and clinical outcome data in clinical decision making
- To work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach
- To assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process
- To operate at all times from an inclusive values base that promotes recovery and recognises and respects diversity
- To prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are delivered
- To deal with a range of clients and clinical situations, including those involving highly emotive communication and the need to apply initiative, tact and persuasion in the face of psychological resistance
- To generate links in the community in order to break down barriers of access for hard to reach client groups.
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Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualification from a Talking Therapies 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
- Substantial experience of using IAPTus to record patient data
- Substantial experience of providing a range of low intensity interventions within an IAPT 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
- Experience of managing a large workload and individual caseload
- Consolidated and reflective supervised post-qualification experience, preferably in NHS or Social Services setting
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Research / audit experience.
- Evidence of having worked in a service where agreed targets were in place to demonstrate effective clinical outcomes.
- 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
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services.
- Experience and knowledge of alternative treatment approaches including counselling
- Evidence of working within a service development role and the ability to co-ordinate across the service.
- Previous line management experience
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Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of NHS policies, procedures and guidelines
- Knowledge of working with diversity and knowledge of working with black, minority ethnic groups
- Evidence-based practice/clinical governance
- Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes
- Knowledge of Child Protection and safeguarding legislation
- An ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- An ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Knowledge of different models of mental health/mental illness
- Models of assessment, screening, referral, record keeping and evidence-based brief psychological intervention
- High level communication skills: written and verbal, including telephone skills
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems.
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
- An ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
- Computer literate.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- Risk assessment and management skills
- Ability to work cross-culturally
- Ability to use outcome measures for both clinical and audit purposes
Desirable criteria
- An awareness of serious mental health presentations (psychosis, bi-polar)
- Evidence of further training in psychological interventions/therapy
- Fluency in an additional (to English) locally relevant priority language.
Personal
Essential criteria
- An interest in working with people with mental health problems.
- Ability to work independently, flexibly, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Ability to work independently, flexibly, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
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