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    Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - Chichester, United Kingdom - Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

    Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
    Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust Chichester, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Are you a qualified Psychological Wellbeing Therapist looking for your next career step in one of the country's leading NHS Talking Therapies services?Then look no further

    Join the NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies team and help us continue to build on our success and work with a range of adults with anxiety, depression and trauma-related problems in a primary care setting.

    Using your skills, knowledge, enthusiasm and commitment to providing NHS talking therapies you will manage a patient caseload offering high quality, evidence-based low intensity interventions and assessments by telephone, video, face to face, groups and online.

    You will be fully supported by our management and clinical leads and surrounded by a friendly, highly competent supportive workforce. We have taken time to create a model and culture in our service which ensures that you are happy in your work.

    As one of the country's leading NHS Talking Therapy services, we lead the way in the provision of NICE recommended psychological therapies, are focused on clinical excellence, innovation, and collaborative working.

    We offer:

  • Excellent CPD and career development opportunities
  • Regular support, supervision and training
  • Opportunity to engage in a number of interesting and social activities led by a Wellbeing lead in each locality

    • Our West Team covers Chichester, Bognor and the surrounding areas. Plenty of opportunities to work flexible hours and office and home working flexibility.

    Main duties of the job

    Provide assessment and evidenced based Low intensity interventions egpsycho-educational interventions, Guided Self Help, computerised CBT topatients who access NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies drawing from CBT theories and techniques.

    To undertake clinical risk assessment and take the appropriate action.

    To work with colleagues to formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.

    To maintain a clinical caseload within agreed limits and supervision.

    Provide a service that is equitable, non-discriminatory, and accessible to a broad range of patients who have common mental health problems and who are over 18 years of age.

    Support GPs and other primary care workers in making appropriate referrals.

    About us

    We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

    Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

    We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

    Why work for us?

  • Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
  • Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
  • Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
  • Excellent training and development opportunities
  • Research opportunities
  • Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
  • Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
  • Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
  • Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
  • Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
  • Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
    • Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) is the largest provider of community healthcare services in Sussex. We employ 5,000 staff and provide community services to a population of million people.

    NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies is a psychology led service that maintains strong working links with psychologists working in the rest of the Trust and with our community stakeholders in primary and secondary care.

    All NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies staff ensure that the service ethos of placing patients at the centre of service delivery and promoting mental wellbeing and emotional resilience is central to the Teams activity. We employ a dedicated IAPT database (IAPTUS) to ensure accurate data collection and record keeping.

    NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies staff work within community bases and health centres. Each of our bases has excellent public transport links and are in thriving South Coast towns with close proximity to the sea.

    As part of Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, we have:

  • Positive NHS Staff Survey results CQC rates our quality of services as good with outstanding features Excellent training and development opportunities Flexible working options, including career breaks, parental leave and adoption leave Thriving BAME, Disability, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks Disability Confident Employer, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
    • Person Specification

    Other requirements

    Essential

  • 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

  • Qualification from PWP Training Course (Post Graduate Certificate or Level 3 Undergraduate Course).

    • Experience

    Essential

  • 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

  • Experience of black and minority ethnic communities and/or the hard to reach communities ( 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

  • 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

  • Knowledge of specialist services available nationally and locally.
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