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Job summary

Main area
Adult Community
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
274-11202-AC
Employer
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Beech House
Town
Boston
Salary
£26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/01/2025 23:59

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Psychological Intervention Facilitator

Band 4

Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join Boston IPBT as a Psychological Intervention Facilitator, has arisen. This is a community based role, where you will be required to complete a trust delivered training program one day a week whilst working as part of the wider MDT within the IPBT on  your other working days.

You would be well supported in a friendly and flexible team, with opportunity to continue to develop your skills and portfolio of evidence based interventions to further your personal development and continue to provide a service to meet the needs of the community.

This role is part of a new mental health workforce that is co-located within the adult community mental health and older people and frailty services.

Teams will build integrated ways of working and provide a collaborative approach to delivering local services and joined up support for people locally.  This includes involvement from health, social care, local authority, third sector and voluntary and community organisations; everyone working together to find solutions to the health and wellbeing

Main duties of the job

The Psychological Intervention Facilitator (PIF) role aims to deliver defined wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles. Increasing the psychological mindedness of the workforce this role will be located in various teams across the adult community mental health and older people and frailty services.

The post-holder will engage in a trust led vocational training programme for the delivery of specified wellbeing interventions and deliver these interventions to patients on their caseload under the close supervision of a nominated psychological practitioner in their team. Attendance at weekly case management supervision and fortnightly clinical skills is an essential part of the role.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy lifeVisit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description

To deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a wellbeing practitioner, clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including:

o            Behavioural activation

o            Graded exposure

o            Teaching problem-solving skills

o            Improving sleep

o            Recognising and managing emotions

o            Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating

o            Building confidence

o            Medication support

o            Relapse Prevention

To work within the wider MDT of IPBT and in line with trust values.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of ability to study successfully at academic Level 5

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of work interacting with the public
  • Experience working as part of a team
  • Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
Desirable criteria
  • Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties

Special requirements

Essential criteria
  • Ability to travel across sites in good time without the use of public transport

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Trust working in a trauma informed way, promoting social inclusion and challenging stigma.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role
  • Commitment to team working and ability to work successfully in a team

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Sunflower Hidden DisabilitiesTimewise-Flex Positive EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoMenopause Friendly EmployerArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Care quality commission - GoodWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.AccessAbleStonewall Gold 2022Dying to Work CharterStep into healthCarer Confident -AccomplishedNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkOne Workforce Lincolnshire ICSPastoral Care Quality AwardStonewall Top 100 2024Stonewall Bronze Award 2024

Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Grainne Kiely
Job title
Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07581017079
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