Lead Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Medirest Signature; Oxford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization seeks a Lead Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) to join a respected team in Oxford. This role involves providing clinical supervision, contributing to service quality, and leading staff development initiatives within a collaborative work environment. With excellent career progression opportunities, the position welcomes innovative ideas to enhance patient care across a variety of settings.

Benefits

Excellent opportunities for career progression

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Discount across various retailers

Competitive pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Staff accommodation

Qualifications

• Substantial experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment.
• Experience in providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to various patients.
• Ability to supervise and manage team members effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership across localities and supervise team members.
• Ensure timely access to assessment, intervention or onward referral.
• Manage clinical caseload and implement agreed plans.

Skills

Organisational skills

Time management

Clinical governance mechanisms

Education

Post grad Cert in Evidence Based Psychological Treatment - IAPT pathway

IAPT accredited PWP supervisor training

IAPT PWP LTC/PPS top up training

Job description

Are you an experienced Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) seeking a step new opportunity within a well established team?

An opportunity has arisen within Oxfordshire Talking Therapies (OTT) for a Lead PWP to join our service. This role would be best suited to an experienced PWP wishing to further develop into management and leadership. We are seeking an experienced therapist with a supervision qualification and accredited LTC/PPS top up training. We are a well-established team with a great reputation for providing a full range of high-quality evidence-based treatment and interventions for patients with anxiety/depression, with and without long term physical health conditions.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a supportive and innovative service, your ideas and creativity would be welcomed in contributing to the ongoing development of our step 2 team.

We offer excellent supervision and CPD and training to support career progression. We actively encourage innovation and research with opportunities for collaborations with Oxford Academic Health Science Network, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry and Department of Experimental Psychology.

Main duties of the job

The Lead PWP’s report to the Step 2 Lead providing robust and clear leadership across localities within the OTT service and the PWP team. They will also work in consultation with the Deputy Clinical Lead and Head of Service/Clinical Lead for OTT. This role would be based in our city locality.

The responsibilities of the role include:

• Contribute to the smooth running of the service by ensuring timely access to assessment, intervention or onward referral (if required).
• Provide management and clinical supervision to team members as agreed with the Step 2 Team Lead and operational managers and ensure all staff have access to management and clinical supervision.
• Participate in the recruitment and induction of new staff as required.
• Assist in establishing appropriate management systems and structures to ensure that all staff receive appropriate supervision, appraisal, training and induction

The Lead PWP will hold an important role in implementing agreed plans to address and meet commissioned targets and contribute and ensure the smooth, effective and safe provision of the day to day running of the Step 2 service. You will contribute to the delivery of Day Supervision for the PWP team on a weekly basis and will deputise in the absence of the Step 2 Lead.

The role also includes provision of case management supervision to Senior PWPs and line management supervision to Senior and/or supervising PWPs as well as holding a clinical caseload.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:“Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are:“Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

• Post grad Cert in Evidence Based Psychological Treatment - IAPT pathway
• IAPT accredited PWP supervisor training
• IAPT PWP LTC/PPS top up training

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
• Substantial experience of providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to a wide range of patients

Desirable criteria

• Experience of teaching and training CBT theory and skills to other professional and non-professional groups
• Experience of supervising therapeutic group work
• Experience of working within IAPT service

Skills

Essential criteria

• Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• Ability to collect routine data and use electronic audit and case management tools in an accurate and timely fashion
• Experience of providing line management within the service

All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.

Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.

We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.

Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.

We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing