Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

NHS; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join their Wellbeing Service in Ipswich. This role involves providing supervision and training to PWPs, managing a caseload, and contributing to service development while ensuring high-quality care. Candidates should have a strong background in mental health, excellent communication skills, and relevant qualifications.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programmes

Career progression opportunities

Starting annual leave of 27 days

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• At least 2 years post qualification experience.
• Accreditation with BABCP required.
• Experience in mental health practice and team management.

Responsibilities

• Provide regular case management supervision and clinical skills training.
• Hold a small caseload of clients delivering clinical interventions.
• Assist in developing Low Intensity services and achieving performance indicators.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Mental Health Knowledge

Education

PWP qualification

Relevant degree in Psychology

Job description

Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

The Wellbeing Service is a Talking Therapy Service, providing primary care assessment, advice and psychological interventions to people in Suffolk aged 16 and above. The service primarily caters for those who would like to access support with mild to moderate mental health difficulties including anxiety and depression.

The service is delivered via a partnership between Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT). We deliver a bio-psycho-social model which includes psychological, employment and social interventions across the county. Our treatments are delivered primarily by telephone, online, via webinars, and face to face.

We require excellent communicators and self-motivated individuals who are committed to delivering a high standard of care. The role predominantly involves providing regular case management supervision, and the provision of clinical skills training (group) as required, to qualified and trainee PWPs, in order to ensure the quality of the service at Step 2 is maintained and that our PWPs are enabled to continually develop their clinical skills.

Main duties of the job

This is an opportunity for a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner or a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner with at least 2 years post qualification experience, who is passionate about the Step 2 model, to develop their career within the service.

Our busy and high-volume service continues to expand, as we plan to work more with clients that have long term physical health conditions (LTCs) alongside common mental health problems. We are currently looking for an enthusiastic Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join our team our Suffolk based offices.

You will assist the leadership team in the development of the Low Intensity part of the service, whilst helping the service achieve its required key performance indicators. The role will also include holding a small caseload of clients, delivering clinical interventions for up to one day per week.

Youwill be able to demonstrate experience of providing high volume, evidence-based practice in guided self-help using telephone and other methods of delivery, as well as an ability to lead others in a challenging environment.

'Working From Home' is available as part of our current hybrid working model, however your base will be in Bury St Edmunds/Ipswich and you will need to attend the twice office weekly in order to fulfil your role.

There are two roles available. One permanent and one 12 month fix term.

About us

Benefits included with this role are:-

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Have a look at our Trust website and our service website to find out more about our service, and about living and working in Suffolk.

NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.

CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interviews date TBC and will be held in our Ipswich Office ( this may be subject to change) You will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• PWP qualification OR: A relevant degree, eg. Psychology with either a Post Graduate Cert/Dip in Mental Health or Equivalent
• Accreditation with BABCP

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Experience of screening, assessing and treatment prescribing
• Experience of working within a service which has demanding targets and performance management
• Experience of delivering training and developing other's
• Experience of managing a team

Knowledge

• Knowledge of mental health/mental illness
• An awareness of serious mental health presentations (psychosis, bi-polar)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£35,392 to £42,618 a yeargross per annum