Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Job overview

IAPT Lewisham is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, conscientious and creative psychological wellbeing practitioner with excellent clinical skills.

This is an exciting opportunity for a PWP with post qualification experience, who is keen to continue and develop within the PWP role, to support the senior management team to further develop and expand the low intensity service provision.

IAPT Lewisham is a  large, well established service providing psychological care to an inner city borough of rich cultural diversity as well as high social and psychological needs, offering our clients a range of modalities as well as CBT, including IPT and DIT.

We aim to provide patient-centred, responsive and high quality psychological health and wellbeing services; with high quality clinical governance to ensure this and support our staff. We are a friendly and welcoming service and pride ourselves on valuing our team members, listening to their views, drawing upon their skills and strengths and supporting their development, through regular CPD events.

Lewisham today is a thriving and cosmopolitan part of London, populated by energetic, creative and diverse communities; with attractive residential neighbourhoods, great local schools and many parks and green spaces with  excellent transport connections. In addition there are exciting developments taking place in local town centres and neighbourhoods, bringing new housing, schools and leisure facilities

Main duties of the job

About the role:

You will provide case management supervision and facilitating skills groups, community development, facilitating and developing access to GSH interventions and wellbeing to under-represented groups in the local community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

There is a significant clinical supervision and management component to this post, providing an opportunity for further development of these skills.

The post-holder will also provide high volume low intensity CBT interventions, face to face, by telephone or online, including cCBT.

The post affords the opportunity for involvement in, and contribution to service development,  and for pursuing special interests including community based projects, workshops and groups.

See Job Description for more details.