Wellbeing Team Leader

Integrated Care System; Bury St Edmunds; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent health service provider in Bury St Edmunds seeks a passionate Team Lead with a strong clinical background in mental health. The role involves planning psychological interventions and leading a team of clinicians in a hybrid work environment. A competitive salary of £47,810 to £54,710 annually is offered, along with comprehensive training and benefits.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programs

Career progression opportunities

Starting annual leave of 27 days

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment.
• Knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience.
• Experience of working within a primary care setting.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate interventions for people with mental health problems.
• Provide robust supervision and mentorship to clinicians.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality psychological interventions.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Mental Health Knowledge

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

ILM Certificate in Management

Job description

We are able to looking for passionate, motivated, and inspirational leaders to work within our Operational Leadership teams in Suffolk.

The Team Lead position provides an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual with a strong clinical background in mental health and a good understanding of the challenges of working as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist or Mental Health Practitioner.

Team Leaders work at both Step 2 and Step 3 within the service, this vacancy will be focused within the Step 2 Team (see below).

If you have the vision, drive and experience to offer dynamic leadership to a group of hardworking clinicians, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will be involved in planning and coordinating interventions for people with common mental health problems wanting to access and receive the treatment offered by our bio-psycho-social service.

As a service, we offer a range of psychological, employment and community interventions across Suffolk.

At Step 2 this includes high volume evidence-based practice in the form of one-to-one guided self- help, predominantly delivered by telephone, psycho-educational groups and computerised CBT. At Step 3 we offer individual and group CBT, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Couples Therapy for Depression, Counselling for Depression and EMDR.

Youwill be offered robust supervision and access to the NSFT Leadership Academy, providing opportunities for Coaching, Mentorship and Leadership training. The Service has strong links with the University of East Anglia and a keen interest in research at all steps.

**Please note this is a hybrid role and time on site (Ipswich) and at home will be required. ( The current expectation is 3 days on site)

About us

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.

We will pay for your initial DBS check (excluding the annual update service charge of £16).

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.

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!

If you have recently been unsuccessful at interview, we would encourage you to consider if re-applying is appropriate based on the feedback offered and the timeframe since your last interview.Please note interviews will take place in person at one of oursites either Mariner House Ipswich or Hospital Road Bury St Edmunds TBC

Candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days notice. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your spam folder, so please keep checking all your email folders if applying.

If you have any further questions ahead of making an application, please contact Katie Webster, Deputy Service Manager,[e-mail]

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Name

Job title

Deputy Service Manager

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Qualification Or Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and BABCP Accredited. Or Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and BACP Accredited. Or Nursing degree or equivalent or Dip OT or Core Profession
• ILM certificate in management or equivalent experience

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment
• Experience of working within a primary care setting.

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.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yeargross per annum