Senior Psychological Well Being Practitioner - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Applicants must be suitably qualified and experienced to specifically deliver step 2 / Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner work within an IAPT service, with evidence of having completed an IAPT improved low-intensity CBT course with at least one year post-qualification experience.

We are looking to find an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (Senior PWP) to join our step 2 leadership team at Talking Therapies Liverpool.

Talking Therapies Liverpool is the provider of IAPT primary care psychological therapies across the City of Liverpool and this vacancy here is for one Senior PWP (band 6) position.

The role is a permanent post.

Applications would be welcomed from existing Senior PWPs wishing to broaden their IAPT experience, as well as qualified PWPs who have experience of delivering supervision / supporting colleagues within a Talking Therapies environment.

The post-holder will be expected to:

Support the development of the Step 2 provision within a high pressured environment
Hold a reduced low intensity caseload and deliver evidence based interventions to clients in onetoone and group settings
Be familiar with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and be committed to equal opportunities.
Develop, support and deliver training in innovative practice to Step 2 practitioners, and other workers qualified to act in Low Intensity worker roles
To develop the service and provide awareness raising with colleagues from external statutory and nonstatutory organisations
To take a lead role in a key area of Step 2 development across the Talking Therapies Liverpool service which may include work with long term conditions, older adults, or groups/courses
Support the development of links with Primary Care, Secondary Care, GP's and service users in nonstatutory organisations, especially services supporting minority groups
Provide clinical case management, possible line management, and occasional clinical supervision to Step 2 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and trainees

Interviews expected for 14th March 2024 and these will be face-to-face in the location in which the position is to be recruited to.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

The post-holder will be expected to:

Support the development of the Step 2 provision within a high pressured environment
Hold a reduced low intensity caseload and deliver evidence based interventions to clients in onetoone and group settings
Be familiar with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and be committed to equal opportunities.
Develop, support and deliver training in innovative practice to Step 2 practitioners, and other workers qualified to act in Low Intensity worker roles
To develop the service and provide awareness raising with colleagues from external statutory and nonstatutory organisations
To take a lead role in a key area of Step 2 development across the Talking Therapies Liverpool service which may include work with long term conditions, older adults, or groups/courses
Support the development of links with Primary Care, Secondary Care, GP's and service users in nonstatutory organisations, especially services supporting minority groups
Provide clinical case management, possible line management, and occasional clinical supervision to Step 2 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and trainees

Interviews expected for 14th March 2024 and these will be face-to-face in the location in which the position is to be recruited to.