Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP)

Job overview

Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP)

Contract: Permanent. Full-Time 37.5 hours per week

Haringey Talking Therapies service is a thriving, dynamic service committed to excellence in its delivery of psychological interventions in Haringey’s multi-cultural, multi-lingual community. We’d love you to join our friendly and supportive team, which offers great opportunities for training, career development and the chance for you to share your ideas and initiative.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual who has the enthusiasm and skills to join as a Senior PWP.  If you are committed to making a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

The post holder will:

• Deliver weekly case management supervision to a team of PWPs
• Deliver clinical skills training to Trainee PWPs
• Work on service developments as needed
• Conduct clinical work with an adjusted caseload
• Work with the Outreach Lead in delivering workshops, liaising and engaging with community groups, services
• Offer screening supervision after first triage
• Work within a large established team of CBT therapists, PWPs & counsellors
• Work one late shift per week (12 to 8 pm)
• Offer hybrid work; two days on site, three days from home each week

You will need:

• Post Graduate Certificate in Evidence based Low Intensity Psychological Treatments (Talking Therapies NHS approved)
• Minimum of one year post qualification PWP experience
• PWP supervisor training (desirable)

Main duties of the job

We particularly welcome staff members who can speak and work in languages that reflect the diverse communities in our Borough.

The Post holder will be part of a team of clinicians under the leadership of the Haringey Talking Therapies Senior Management Team.

The post holder will provide step 2 case management, run clinical skills workshops for trainee PWPs and support screening supervision. They may also be involved in triaging referrals to the service.

The post holder will work closely with the Step 2 Lead to support service development and innovation, with new initiatives and ways of working within the service.

In addition, the post holder will maintain a reduced case load of patients and deliver Step 2 CBT based interventions.

The post holder will work with the Outreach Lead in delivering workshops, liaising and engaging with community groups, services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

• To support staff in their management of patients with mental health needs.
• To provide clinical supervision to PWPs, trainee PWPs and other unqualified step 2 workers (e.g. assistant psychologists, honorary staff) according to clinical expertise and service.
• To screen new referrals to the service, and following screening to liaise as appropriate with secondary care mental health services and social service departments.
• Under supervision, to manage a reduced caseload of clients who have mild to moderate anxiety and/or depression referred and assessed by the GP, other professionals or self-referred.
• To support and assist patient referral to other services as appropriate.
• In collaboration with colleagues and under supervision, to provide a range of evidenced based brief interventions using guided self-help methods.
• To ensure that work is patient focussed, responsive to need and culturally competent and sensitive.
• To assist in the running of self-help groups, activities and use of self-help material, information and other mental health resources as appropriate.
• To engage health and social care professionals, as well as local community groups, promote the service, and deliver psychoeducational workshops to various groups in the local community.
• To assist and develop new ideas for generating new referrals and offering evidence based psycho-educational interventions in to further the Service’s need for outreach and engagement.

Clinical Governance

• To Follow Trust guidelines in relation to Record Keeping, Data Protection and confidentiality.
• To collect data relevant to the work indicating performance outcomes.
• To be responsible for conducting audit and research appropriate to the post.
• To audit appropriate health information publishing findings where appropriate
• To keep professionally updated
• To work with the team in developing policies/guidelines appropriate to work/role and review effectiveness
• To work at all times within the policies and procedures of Whittington NHS Trust, advising managers when gaps within the policy framework are identified and when existing policy needs reviewing

Professional Development

• To identify own training needs and take opportunity to update professional knowledge and skills through training programmes
• To participate in staff development and appraisal systems
• To continually evaluate own professional practice and develop new ways of working.
• To actively participate in the development of Talking Therapy Services.