Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 150-KB1204-CSS
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North West Sussex
- Town
- Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Are you a qualified PWP? Are you looking to work in a team renowned for its supportive culture? Do you want to be part of a well-established service making a difference in the community? If you want to join one of the country’s leading Talking Therapies services, then we would love to hear from you!
We're excited to announce we are recruiting for Talking Therapies - accredited PWPs to join our team at West Sussex Talking Therapies and help us continue to build on our success, working with a range of adults with anxiety, depression and trauma-related problems in a primary care setting. These vacancies are within our North locality (bases in Burgess Hill, Crawley and Horsham).
We’re one of the top performing Talking Therapies services in the country, leading the way in the provision of NICE-recommended psychological therapies. We’re focused on clinical excellence, innovation and collaborative working.
Main duties of the job
Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
Assess and support people with a common mental health problem in the self-management of their recovery.
Undertake patient-centred interviews which identify areas where the person wishes to see change and/or recovery and make an accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
Provide a range of information and support for evidence-based, high volume, low-intensity psychological treatments. This may include guided self-help, computerised CBT, and information about pharmacological treatments. This work may be face-to-face, telephone or via other media.
Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.
Working for our organisation
We are proud of our supportive culture. You will be supported by your management and clinical leads and surrounded by a friendly, highly competent workforce who will be there for you.
We’re one of the top performing Talking Therapies services in the country, leading the way in the provision of NICE-recommended psychological therapies.
We can offer you:
- Excellent continued learning and development
- Exciting career development opportunities
- The opportunity to be part of a well-established and patient-focused service
- The chance to be part of a dedicated, professional, engaged and supportive team
- Regular support, supervision and training
- Flexible working opportunities
We provide our patients with a service between Monday-Friday 8am and 8pm.
With our blended working model work, successful candidates can expect a mixture of home working and working on site in one of our bases or sites in the community. Our interventions are offered digitally as well as face-to-face, offering our patient’s choice. We retain and build on innovations that have helped maximise staff wellbeing. You will be provided with a laptop and mobile phone.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols. Refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary or step-up the person’s treatment to high intensity therapy.
Develop treatment plans, tailoring them to meet the specific and individual needs of each patient.
Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
Assess and manage risk of patient’s intent to harm self or others in line with Service and Trust protocols.
Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process.
Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times in line with Service and Trust protocols and policies.
Be aware of and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of treatment for common mental health problems.
Attend Case Supervision/Reflective Practice Supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Locality Manager and Clinical Lead.
Contribute to the development of best practice within the service.
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details.
North (Burgess Hill, Horsham, Crawley)
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with patients on telephone, face to face and in group settings.
- Experience of relating sensitive, emotional and sometime traumatic information.
- Experience of working in an environment where protocols have to be strictly adhered to.
- Experience of using database to electronically record information gained.
- Evidence of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem.
- Experience of team working.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of black and minority ethnic communities and/or the hard to reach communities (e.g. hearing-impaired, asylum seekers and homeless).
- Experience of working with people with long term health conditions.
- Experience of running psycho educational courses.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage own workload and time.
- Able to carry out a risk assessment.
- Able to work in a service where agreed KPIs are in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication, high standard of record-keeping, with due regard for NHS Confidentiality, Data Protection and Information governance.
- Able to write clear reports and letters.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent telephone skills with the ability to type information being gained in real time.
- Ability to work under pressure and with high volumes of patients who may be distressed.
- Ability to develop appropriate therapeutic relationships by phone/video/face-to-face and in small group settings.
- Ability to present information to groups of professionals and/or patients.
- Is computer literate and experienced at using MS Office, Internet.
- Has used IAPTus or equivalent patient computerised health record system.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users in own personal and professional development and in supervision. Has effective self-care strategies.
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
- Demonstrates knowledge and practical application of stepped care approach and Improving Access to Psychological Therapies.
- Demonstrate an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary care.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health.
- Knowledge of medication routinely used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to the post.
- Have knowledge of and be committed to the concept of recovery and mental resilience.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of specialist services available nationally and locally.
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
- Aptitude for group work or willingness to learn.
- Able and willing to travel to sites across the locality.
- Willingness to work flexible hours, which may include one evening per week as the service is commissioned to provide Mon-Fri 8am–8pm cover.
Essential
Essential criteria
- Qualification from PWP Training Course (Post Graduate Certificate or Level 3 Undergraduate Course).
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Young
- Job title
- Deputy Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07717424224
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