Senior PWP

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Hellingly; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in East Sussex is recruiting a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner. The role involves supervising and managing Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, providing evidence-based therapies, and maintaining clinical standards. Applicants should be registered with the BABCP or BPS and hold a relevant degree. Flexibility in working patterns and remote work options are available.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Supportive team environment

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Registered with the BABCP or BPS.
• Experience in Professional Supervision.
• Knowledge of NICE guidelines for psychological interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide case management and clinical supervision.
• Maintain high professional standards.
• Support implementation of the Step Care model.
• Ensure accurate maintenance of clinical records.

Skills

Professional Supervision

Clinical Record Management

Patient Risk Assessment

Evidence-based Therapy

Team Collaboration

Education

Post Graduate/Graduate Certificate in Psychological Wellbeing Practice

Degree related to Mental Health

Job description

We are recruiting for qualified Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to join the East Sussex NHS Talking Therapies service who have a desire to make a difference and want to further their knowledge, skill and experience in a supportive and progressive environment. You must be registered with the BABP or BPS.

Health in Mind is an NHS Talking Therapies service providing evidence-based treatments for people with depression and/or a range of anxiety-based difficulties within primary care. Please see our website for further information on https://www.healthinmind.org.uk/.

We will consider applications from those that wish to work flexibly and are open to discussions around remote and home working. We cover the whole of East Sussex (with the exception of Brighton and Hove) and the successful applicant will be assigned to a more specific geographical locality upon appointment.

Main duties of the job

Health in Mind is a large primary care mental health service that serves the people of East Sussex, with the exception of Brighton and Hove. You will be working within a defined geographical area (to be determined upon appointment), delivering telephone or Online video appointments as well as some face to face appointments where needed, although flexibility in appointment types can be discussed at interview.

• Support the PWP Team Lead with development and implementation of service improvement plans and performance monitoring.
• Be responsible for the clinical supervision and case management of both trainee and qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners.
• Receive support from Senior Clinicians and your team lead in the form of case management and clinical supervision.

About us

The client's experience of our service is very important to us. We work towards supporting clients in their recovery by offering evidence-based therapy with therapists who receive regular and supportive supervision and regular CPD. We promote service user involvement. Health in Mind has a Service User Steering Group which provides valuable input to our service design and delivery. We care about our staff. We have a staff-wellbeing-champions team, and are committed to staff engagement. We know that for our clinicians to do a good job they need to feel supported. There is opportunity for varied and flexible working patterns and home working and working hours can be discussed in the interview. We are keen for our clinicians to grow. We aim to offer staff individual appraisals with the opportunity to become involved in a range of activities, such as group-based interventions, teaching, supervision and service development

Job responsibilities

• To provide case management and clinical supervision to Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners.
• To maintain high professional standards and attend clinical and managerial supervision.
• To support the PWP Team Lead in managing the waiting lists and systems for Step 2 assessments and interventions.
• To ensure accurate maintenance of clinical records and outcome measures on the clinical data system, and support staff in maintaining accurate records.
• To ensure patient satisfaction questionnaires and service reviews are completed.
• To support the implementation of Step Care model of delivery of psychological interventions to clients within a primary care setting in line with NICE guidelines.
• To work with the PWP Lead in the ongoing development and support of best practice and innovation within the Step 2 Team.
• To provide high volume low intensity short term treatments in accordance with the TTAD model.
• To undertake initial assessments and gather sufficient information to assess risk/complexity of clients' needs, including drug and alcohol use, current and past medical psychiatric history, and biosocial aspects of the clients situation, making onward referral as necessary.
• To be responsible for ensuring own and others clinical practice complies with Data Protection / Confidentiality / Caldicott Principles.
• To manage a balanced workload of individual therapy for clients with the management and leadership roles of this post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post Graduate/Graduate Certificate in Psychological Wellbeing Practice (Low intensity)
• A qualification or substantial experience in Professional Supervision
• PWP Registration with the BABCP or BPS
• A degree related to Mental Health e.g. Psychology or equivalent training and experience.

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.