Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - Band 6

Job overview

Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - Band 6

Full time, permanent role- HYBRID Working pattern

We are recruiting several Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners within the Coventry and Warwickshire Talking Therapies teams, managing and coordinating a supportive and cohesive PWP Team.

Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Talking Therapies service has a strong focus on client experience and outcome as well as staff wellbeing. The service benefits from a robust support structure, with various learning and development opportunities including an inhouse CPD programme, whereby full time staff are allocated 5 study days per year to progress their skills and knowledge.

This is a hybrid role with a mix of remote working and office based duties.

Main duties of the job

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

This is a full time role and your responsibilities will include spending one day each week at our Telephone and Referral Centre. This is where all referrals are received and processed and your role will require you to screen some of these referrals for suitability. You will also be required to assess risks on a regular basis and ensure that a management plan is developed whenever risks are identified.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will have experience of working with common mental health problems, be able to provide initial assessments of client need including risk assessment and deliver a range of evidence-based, high volume, low-intensity psychological interventions based on a self-management model. The range of interventions will include both individual and group work and the candidates must be confident and competent in delivering interventions using a variety of communication mediums such as telephone work, e-consultation and face-to-face activities.

You must have excellent communication/interpersonal skills and be able to work on your own initiative as well as within a team.

Must have experience of working with Trainee PWPs.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.