Employer Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Argyll House
Town Sheffield
Salary £46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 16/03/2025 23:59
Interview date 24/03/2025
Lead Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
About us
At Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust we provide a range of mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, primary care and other specialist services designed around the needs of people in our city.
We have a dedicated and skilful team of people caring in Sheffield, which you could become a part of.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do. These are: working together for our service users, respect and kindness, everyone counts, commitment to quality, improving lives.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to apply for the Lead Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner role in the Sheffield Talking Therapies Health and Wellbeing Service.
You will need to demonstrate considerable and relevant experience of working with LTCs/PPS and anxiety and low mood, drawn from previous experience as a Senior PWP. It is essential you hold a Post Graduate Certificate in Low Intensity Psychological Interventions; have completed the LTC top up training for LTCs/PPS and have substantial clinical, supervision and leadership experience.
Sheffield Talking Therapies is committed to the continuous professional development and wellbeing of its workforce and offers numerous opportunities for in-house CPD.
Main duties of the job
The Lead Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner will:
1. Support staff to deliver Step: 2 Talking Therapies interventions within the Talking Therapies service; to offer evidence based interventions within a stepped care model for people living with LTCs/PPS and who experience common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety.
2. Ensure that PWPs are able to support allied health care professionals across partnering organisations (e.g. GPs; other members of the Primary Care team; community and hospital based staff) in the management of patients with common mental health problems.
3. Be responsible for ensuring that high quality clinical supervision and support is available to low intensity staff within the Talking Therapies service.
4. Offer expert clinical support and guidance to Step: 2 staff seeing difficult patients or managing challenging and complex referrals when appropriate in a way that helps to promote learning and resilience.
5. To be representative of the Step: 2 workforce in Senior Talking Therapies meetings and when representing the service.
6. To have a lead role in the clinical governance for the delivery of Step: 2 interventions in collaboration with other professional leads and the wider Talking Therapies Senior Team as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
At SHSC, we prioritise the well-being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust's Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
General Requirements
To be a clinical/professional lead for the Step: 2 Talking Therapies service ensuring the development of the role and the continued development of guided self help within the Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) role.
1. Ensure that PWPs are able to provide support to GPs and other allied health care professionals in managing patients with common Mental Health problems.
2. Ensure that a training plan is developed for PWPs that is equitable and reflects the development needs of the workforce and the service; that also reflects and embraces new opportunities and service changes.
3. Offer expert advice to Step: 2 staff who assess patients who are considered a risk to themselves or others (following Trust protocols and guidance), including child and adult protection policies.
4. Have operational oversight of the delivery of Step: 2 interventions such as the LTC/PPS courses.
5. Ensure that Step: 2 staff within Sheffield Talking Therapies provide evidence based Step: 2 interventions as appropriate in line with NICE and Talking Therapies /HEE guidance/training.
6. Ensure that Step: 2 staff have the skills and knowledge to step-up within the stepped care model as appropriate and adhere to best practice guidance.
7. Oversee the framework for clinical supervision ensuring that all staff who deliver Step: 2 interventions have access to high quality clinical supervision that is appropriate to the interventions they offer.
8. Support Step: 2 staff to collect and organise information for patients and families about conditions; medication and management; alternative treatments and the wide range of local resources in the community. Access information in different media and languages.
9. Promote sign posting resources through out the service, with special regard to what Step: 2 staff can sign post to.
10. Work with Step: 2 staff to ensure they show respect for people’s social and cultural needs and preferences; working with people from a wide range of backgrounds; working with interpreters also when appropriate.
11. Promote and contribute to the development of training for allied health care professionals and support the development of their mental health skills generally.
12. Work with other Trust services to share positive learning from the Talking Therapies service.
13. Ensure that any systematic issues that prevent Step: 2 staff being able to record data on databases and clinical record systems required by Talking Therapies are proactively managed.
14. Contribute to the further development of Sheffield Talking Therapies service.
Person specification
Knowledge & Skills
* Expert knowledge of offering Step: 2 interventions as part of integrated care pathways e.g. Primary Care; other allied health services (community or hospital based).
* Knowledge of significant developments in the delivery of Step: 2 interventions and how they are implemented within a Talking Therapies service.
* Knowledge of other Talking Therapies services and how they deliver Step: 2 interventions.
* Ability to support the Step: 2 workforce to accurately record relevant information, including note keeping and using electronic patient record systems.
* Ability to develop reports and information relating to the development and delivery of Step: 2 interventions within the Talking Therapies service.
* Ability to manage own time and workload.
* Ability to be an effective member of the Senior Talking Therapies Team; working collaboratively with Senior Talking Therapies Managers; providing information and contributing to the ongoing development of the service.
* Ability to speak a second language commonly used in Sheffield.
* Have a wider understanding of the Trust and other Trust based mental health services which Talking Therapies may come into contact with.
Training & Qualifications
* Qualification in Primary Care mental health work or Low Intensity Psychological Interventions (Post Graduate Certificate in Low Intensity Interventions; or a Graduate Worker Mental Health Worker qualification with additional top up training).
* Completed LTC PWP top-up training
* Completed Talking Therapies PWP Supervisor training
* A further qualification related in the delivery of Step: 2 interventions.
* Other professional, registered or accredited health related qualification and experience e.g. RMN; RGN; Counselling.
Experience
* Expert experience of offering Step: 2 interventions as part of integrated care pathways e.g. Primary Care; other allied health services (community or hospital based) – to people experiencing Depression and/or Anxiety; with or without a physical health condition.
* Experienced in offering high quality Talking Therapies low intensity supervision for LTC cases.
* Proven abilities offering guidance and leadership to junior staff.
* Experience working with a diverse group of staff to achieve common goals.
* Experience of leading pieces of work; projects; or aspects of service development within a Talking Therapies service.
* Experience of working with diverse communities.
* Experience of project management and a project leadership role.
Other
* Committed to offering high quality Step: 2 clinical interventions within a Talking Therapies service.
* Have the ability to work effectively as a member of the Talking Therapies senior Team and its members; promoting and representing the Step: 2 service and working to raise its profile.
* Able to travel to multiple sites.
We aim to be an organisation that is diverse and inclusive and to meet this aim we welcome applications from people with a wide range of life experience and whose diversity echoes the diversity of Sheffield, that of the people who use our services, and that of the people who may need to use our services but face barriers to access. Please think about your personal values and how these align with our values when you are applying.
We are a Disability Confident employer level 2 and hope to achieve level 3 this year. We offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for a role.
Our six staff network groups welcome new members, these are:
* The Ethnically Diverse Staff Network Group
* The Disability Staff Network Group
* The Lived Experience Staff Network Group
* The Rainbow Staff Network Group
* The Staff Carers Staff Network Group
* The Women’s Staff Network Group
We know how important flexible working can be to applicants and therefore we encourage you to discuss any working arrangements as part of this process. We will always aim to accommodate requests, wherever possible.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children and as part of our safe recruitment practice the successful applicant(s) will be subject to a check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) if it is deemed appropriate for the role. The cost of the DBS check (currently up to £48.23) must be met by the successful applicant(s).
When applying for this post you will redirected to complete your application in our preferred applicant management system, Trac. If you are successfully offered a role, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.
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