Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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CNWL Talking Therapies Service Brent is a large, friendly and well established team which has good training and development links and also consistently meets its targets and the needs of the local population.

Alongside high and low intensity CBT interventions, the service also has a counselling service at step 3 which provides brief counselling.

Individual and group based treatments are provided as well as couples based interventions.


The service meets a high level of need, and also has good recovery rates and a vibrant community outreach programme.

There are clear and well defined systems for triaging and screening of incoming referrals, allocation of clients to step 2 and step 3, management of waiting lists and stepping up and stepping down clients as appropriate.

The team is also committed to promoting staff wellbeing and supporting staff development, and has a good track record of supporting step 2 staff with getting onto further training, leadership roles and retention within the service.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users.

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The post holders will work with the Step 2 lead and will be involved in delivering day-to-day coordination and supervision of PWP's within the service.

This includes providing caseload management and supervision to trainee and qualified PWP's, coordinate existing group programmes and develop new ones, as well as carrying a clinical caseload.


The postholders will be expected to participate in extended hours clinics once a week offered by the service which include early morning and late evening clinics from 8 am to 8 pm.


Current working arrangements:

the service currently operates an agile working pattern delivering services remotely, face to face and within the community promoting the IAPT service.

Applicants are informed that they will need to come in on site (at our bases in Kingsbury and Willesden) for some part of the working week.


The post holder will receive regular clinical as well as case management supervision and support from the Step 2 Lead and qualified High Intensity Therapists.

The team has close links with teams within Brent Mental Health Services and other Talking Therapies services within CNWL. There are also wider links with other services within CNWL Foundation Trust and the Trust-wide clinical psychology services. We have good links with and have trainees from all the Regional training courses.

Interview date TBC


This role in the Brent Talking Therapies Service aims to further develop and consolidate the existing low intensity service provision within the team.


The post-holder will:


  • Hold a qualification (Post grad dip/cert) in low intensity working from an accredited course,
  • Offer evidencebased practice in facilitated selfhelp, cCBT and psychoeducational groups, and will
  • Develop, support and train innovative practice to trainee psychological wellbeing practitioners, to other workers qualified to act in low intensity worker roles and to Primary Care colleagues, such as health visitors, community matrons, district nurses and other professionals as appropriate.
  • Have experience in supervision
  • Play a key role in expanding IAPT service provision to people with long term physical health conditions and liaising with key staff within the team and externally to set this up.
  • Coordinate the step 2 psychoeducational groups provision within the service and within the community as part of service awareness raising and health promotion.

Key Responsibilities:

Clinical

  • To offer rapid screening and assessment, informed by knowledge of the
spectrum of mental health needs and risk factors.

  • To 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 psychological therapy.
  • To manage waiting-lists and capacity within the low intensity service through coordination of groups and other interventions across Brent
  • To identify and oversee the development of best practice within the low intensity service, leading, co-coordinating resources and protocols within the service, including working with the Clinical lead and deputy Leads to identify and manage service gaps or obstacles
  • To work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
  • Provide assessment and Low intensity interventions eg psycho-educational interventions, Guided Self Help, computerised CBT and group based CBT treatments to patients registered with GP practices/health centres and or resident in the borough of Brent, drawing from CBT t
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