Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Humber Youth Action Group; West Carr; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Humber NHS Teaching Foundation Trust is recruiting a full-time Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) to work within the East Riding Talking Therapies. The post holder will manage a caseload of patients with mild to moderate mental health problems and provide supervision to the PWP team while contributing to streamlined referral pathways and CPD activities across the service.

The role involves collaboration with MDTs, adherence to referral protocols, and engagement with staff training

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of patients with mild to moderate common mental health problems.
• Attend interface (MDT) meetings to present referrals for discussion.
• Provide caseload, clinical and managerial supervision to the PWP team.
• Making decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department's referral protocol.
• Review and create pathways alongside management and clinical leads.
• Attend regular clinical and managerial supervision.
• Attend CPD days.
• To undertake updates in training and to undertake new training to enable you to fulfil your duties, training may require travelling to different universities/ areas/venues within the country.
• To work within Service/Trust protocols/ policies.
• To work with a diverse population.
• To fulfil supervisor responsibilities.
• Ensure the supervision and professional development system for step 2 is in line with National Talking Therapy guidance.

Job description

We are delighted to announce that we recruiting a full time permanent post for Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP). The post holder will work in the East Riding Talking Therapies , Humber NHS teaching Foundation Trust. An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit dedicated, enthusiastic and innovative individual to join a growing and evolving team. Working as a Senior PWP within the team you will help to develop, support and train staff along with providing low intensity therapy to the East Riding Population and take a lead role in discussing referrals between ERTT and other Humber Service. We are a Lead Provider of Talking Therapy services in the East Riding and work closely with our partner providers, The Service supports people aged 16 and upwards in the community providing a range of recovery focused Talking Therapy interventions for people with mild, moderate and severe common mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. The service provides a stepped care treatment approach. The post holder will:

• Manage a caseload of patients with mild to moderate common mental health problems.
• To attend interface (MDT) meetings to present referrals for discussion.
• Provide caseload, clinical and managerial supervision to the PWP team.
• Making decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department's referral protocol.
• Review and create pathways alongside management and clinical leads.
• Attend regular clinical and managerial supervision.
• Attend CPD days.
• To undertake updates in training and to undertake new training to enable you to fulfil your duties, training may require travelling to different universities/ areas/venues within the country.
• To work within Service/Trust protocols/ policies.
• To work with a diverse population.
• To fulfil supervisor responsibilities.
• Ensure the supervision and professional development system for step 2 is in line with National Talking Therapy guidance.

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care. We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started. We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised. We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support. From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.