Senior Psychological Well Being Practitioner

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; West Kirby; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (Senior PWP) to join the Talking Therapies Liverpool service on a part-time secondment. The role supports the step 2 leadership team and provides guidance to the step 2 workforce to meet patient needs across Talking Therapies Liverpool.

The candidate will work with Team Leads and PWPs, delivering low-intensity CBT, group and individual interventions, and contributing to service development,

Qualifications

• Essential degree in mental health (e.g. Psychology).
• Specific Low Intensity Worker / PWP qualification or equivalent.
• Registration with BABCP or BPS required.

Responsibilities

• Support Talking Therapies KPIs with focus on recovery.
• Develop Step 2 provision in a high pressure environment.
• Hold a reduced low-intensity caseload and deliver evidence-based interventions.
• Be familiar with diverse cultural backgrounds and ages; use interpreters when necessary; promote equal opportunities.
• Develop, support and deliver training in innovative practice to Step 2 practitioners and other workers.
• Lead on core tasks within Step 2 development across Talking Therapies Liverpool service.
• Develop links with Primary and Secondary Care and non-statutory organisations; work with minority groups.
• Provide clinical case management, potential line management, and supervision to PWPs and trainees.
• Lead on nominated core tasks such as courses, trainees, recovery, CBT.

Skills

Clinical risk assessment

Self reflection

Therapeutic relationships

Teamwork

Interpreters when needed

Education

Mental health degree

Low Intensity Worker / PWP qualification

BABCP or BPS registration

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

Applicants must be suitably qualified and experienced to specifically deliver step 2 / Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner work within an Talking Therapies service, with evidence of having completed an Talking Therapies improved low-intensity CBT course with at least one year post-qualification experience.

We are looking to find an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (Senior PWP) to join our step 2 leadership team at Talking Therapies Liverpool.

Talking Therapies Liverpool is the provider of Talking Therapies primary care psychological therapies across the City of Liverpool and this vacancy is for a part-time secondment post.

The successful candidate will work alongside Team Leads, other Senior PWPs, and within the wider Talking Therapies Liverpool leadership structure to ensure support and guidance is given to the step 2 workforce and the needs of the patients of Talking Therapies Liverpool serves are being met.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be expected to:

1. *Support the Talking Therapies team KPIs with a focus on recovery*
2. Support the development of the Step 2 provision within a high pressured environment
3. Hold a reduced low intensity caseload and deliver evidence based interventions to clients in one-to-one and group settings
4. Be familiar with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and be committed to equal opportunities.
5. Develop, support and deliver training in innovative practice to Step 2 practitioners, and other workers qualified to act in Low Intensity worker roles
6. To develop the service and provide awareness raising with colleagues from external statutory and non-statutory organisations
   - To take a lead role in a key area of Step 2 development across the Talking Therapies Liverpool service which may include work with long term conditions, older adults, or groups/courses
7. Support the development of links with Primary Care, Secondary Care, GP's and service users in non-statutory organisations, especially services supporting minority groups
8. Provide clinical case management, Clinical skills groups, possible line management for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and trainees.
9. To lead on nominated core tasks which could include courses, trainees, recovery, CBT

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder will be expected to:

1. 1. Support the development of the Step 2 provision within a high pressured environment
2. 2. Hold a reduced low intensity caseload and deliver evidence based interventions to clients in one-to-one and group settings
3. 3. Be familiar with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and be committed to equal opportunities.
4. 4. Develop, support and deliver training in innovative practice to Step 2 practitioners, and other workers qualified to act in Low Intensity worker role
5. 5. To develop the service and provide awareness raising with colleagues from external statutory and non-statutory organisations
6. 6. To take a lead role in a key area of Step 2 development across the Talking
7. 7. Therapies Liverpool service which may include work with long term conditions, older adults, or groups/courses
8. 8. Support the development of links with Primary Care, Secondary Care, GP's and service users in non-statutory organisations, especially services supporting minority groups
9. 9. Provide clinical case management, possible line management, and occasional clinical supervision to Step 2 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and trainee

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A degree related to Mental Health e.g. Psychology
• Specific Low Intensity Worker / Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner qualification (e.g., Post Grad Certificate in Primary Care Mental Health Practice or equivalent)
• Registration with either the BABCP or the BPS

Desirable criteria

• Training in a High Intensity Modality
• A qualification or experience in professional supervision

Skills

Essential criteria

• The capacity to adapt core psychological approaches to the primary care culture, incorporating a range of skills to meet a broad spectrum of presenting issues
• Clinical risk assessment
• Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships

Desirable criteria

• Ability to carry out a range of evaluation and monitoring techniques
• Able to work through interpreters

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of working with people with common mental health problems
• Ability to demonstrate a range of post-qualifying experiences (min 1 year) in offering and delivering the range of evidence based IAPT low intensity interventions such as guided self-help and group psycho-education
• Consolidated and reflective supervised post-qualifying experience in a community setting
• Experience of working with clients in a primary care setting
• Experience of 'partnership working'
• Substantial experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork
• Experience of working with suicidal clients and of risk management
• Experience of working within the IAPT culture

Desirable criteria

• Experience in drug/alcohol management
• Experience of supervising others within a therapy setting of helping profession such as social work nursing
• Experience of dealing with clients whose children are subject to Child Protection legislation
• Experience of co- working with general nurses and health visitors in a Primary Care setting
• 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 audit and research
• Experience of and ability to provide mentor/supervisor role

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of different models of mental health/mental illness
• Understanding of models of assessment, screening, referral, record-keeping and evidence-based brief psychological intervention
• Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes
• Knowledge of Child Protection legislation

Desirable criteria

• An awareness of serious mental health presentations (psychosis, bi-polar)
• Evidence of further training in psychological interventions/therapy

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous improvement - committed to making improvements to our services for the benefit of all
• Accountability - taking ownership to anticipate, develop and deliver high quality care
• Respect - how we treat others in an inclusive and supportive way
• Enthusiasm - demonstrate our passion and pride for what we do and how we do it
• Support - actively supporting others with compassion and courage

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

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