Site Lind Clinic Town London Salary £35,964 - £43,780 per annum incl. inner HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 27/04/2025 23:59
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to providing high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
IAPT Lewisham is looking for an enthusiastic, conscientious and creative Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) with excellent clinical skills to join our large, well established service.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Qualified PWP who is proficient in the delivery of telephone triage assessments and CBT-based guided self-help interventions, to pursue special interests, including community based projects, workshops and groups; supported by regular case management supervision from an experienced clinician.
The post-holder will work within the IAPT Lewisham service, providing high volume low intensity interventions, consisting of a range of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based self-management interventions, to clients with anxiety and depression. Interventions will be on an individual basis and in groups.
The post-holder will carry out telephone and face to face assessments; guided self help treatments including cCBT. There will be opportunities to pursue special interests including community based projects, workshops and groups.
The post-holder will work with people of different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities. The post-holder will be based in various sites across the Borough of Lewisham.
This post affords opportunity for involvement in, and contribution to service development.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will:
1. Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service and develop programmes of care.
2. Assess and support people with common mental health problems in the self-management of their recovery.
3. Undertake patient-centred interviews which identify areas where the person wishes to see change and/or recovery and make an accurate assessment of risk to self and others, both face to face and on the telephone.
4. Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the service's referral protocols.
5. Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
6. Provide a range of information and support for evidence-based high-volume-low-intensity psychological treatments.
7. Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week.
8. Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
9. Prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical/case management supervisors.
10. Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating body.
11. Contribute to the development of best practice within the service.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Qualification from PWP training course (e.g. Post Graduate Diploma in Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Interventions).
* Psychology or other health related undergraduate degree
Experience
* Working in an IAPT service or similar with agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.
* Experience using electronic clinical records and data collection system
* Evidence of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem.
* Experience working in the local community
Skills and Competencies
* Skills in the provision of Low Intensity CBT interventions using both paper and computer based material
* Computer literate and excellent verbal and written skills
* Ability to manage own caseload, work under pressure, use supervision appropriately and work well as part of a team.
Knowledge
* Demonstrates an understanding of Depression and Anxiety and how it may present in Primary Care
* Demonstrates an understanding of the need to use evidence based practice and how this is relevant to this post
* Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health.
* Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
Other requirements
* High level of enthusiasm and motivation
* Ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation
* Fluent in languages other than English
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights.
Please note:
* That all applications for this post will need to be made online.
* That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role.
* That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received.
* That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system.
* That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful.
* That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
* That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
* That we are a smoke-free Trust.
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