Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
The NHS Talking Therapies Service in South East Hertfordshire is looking to employ a part time (22.5 hours per week) Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner on a permanent basis to join the team in Ware. The role, working closely with the PWPs they supervise, plays a central role in ensuring our service is of the best quality, with the best outcomes for our service users.
This is a blended post with a weekly pattern of working two or three days on site, and some home working. A key part of the role will be to provide clinical supervision for PWPs within the service. The Senior PWP will work alongside the Talking Therapies Service Manager, Team Leaders and our other Senior PWPs and Senior Clinicians and will receive their own clinical supervision from the Deputy Clinical Lead within the team. There will be opportunities for ongoing professional development as well as the chance to contribute to further service development. You will be an experienced PWP with at least 1 year post qualification experience and with a recognized IAPT qualification in Step 2 intervention and will be registered or working towards PWP accreditation with the BABCP or BPS. The position provides an excellent opportunity for a suitably qualified and experienced PWP to lead in the further development of the PWP role as the service grows and ensure our team of PWPs are supported and supervised effectively.
Main duties of the job
* Undertake appropriate clinical supervision on a regular basis in accordance with the relevant professional guidelines and policies.
* Take personal responsibility for achieving agreed clinical activity in accordance with service policies.
* To develop an area of special interest, to the level whereby the post-holder could become a resource of information for the whole service.
* Adhere to the policies and procedures of Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust.
* Maintain appropriate clinical records in keeping with service operational policy.
* Participate in setting and review of objectives for the post on an annual basis.
* Participate in activities of continuing professional development (CPD) on an annual basis.
* Attend professional meetings as appropriate.
* Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.
* Co-ordinate and liaise between different staff groups including Assistant psychologists, High Intensity Therapists.
* Support the development and delivery of interactive psycho-education within a CBT framework to large groups of Service Users.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* IAPT supervision training and experience.
* A related undergraduate degree, e.g. Psychology.
* Significant experience of working with people with common mental health problems.
* Significant post-qualification experience in offering and delivering the full range of evidence-based IAPT low intensity interventions.
* Additional areas of training through short courses.
* Experience of delivering training to a range of professionals.
Experience
* Experience of working within an IAPT service.
* Significant knowledge of IAPT compliant step 2 ways of working.
* Knowledge of NHS policies, procedures and guidelines.
* Knowledge of working with diversity.
* Evidence-based practice.
* Knowledge of assessment procedures, screening, referral, record-keeping and evidence-based brief psychological interventions.
* Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes.
* Knowledge of Child Protection legislation.
* Knowledge of clinical risk assessment.
* Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
* An understanding of the context of IAPT stepped care.
* Experience of having worked in a service where agreed waiting time and clinical outcomes targets are in place.
* Ability to manage own caseload and time.
* Experience of partnership working.
* Substantial experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork.
* Experience of audit and research.
* Experience of working in a supervisor role.
* Ability to carry out a range of evaluation and monitoring techniques.
* Fluency in a community language other than English.
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.
Address
59 New Road Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 7BU
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year, pro rata + 5% of basic salary, min £1,192 - max £2,011
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
367-ACMS-8710
Job locations
59 New Road Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 7BU
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