Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - Bedford, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust

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Bedford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service

Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

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wte

CALLING ALL QUALIFIED AND SOON TO QUALIFY PWPSThe Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service are looking for PWPs to join their amazing team

PWPs within the Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service offer initial assessments to patients entering into the service as well as offering step 2 interventions through cCBT (silvercloud), Psychoeducational Groups and Guided Self-Help.

We work closely with our step 3 colleagues to ensure patients can move through the service effectively as well as working with third sector partnership organisations to make referrals.

We pride ourselves on our excellent CPD package for PWPs.

We offer internal and external training for PWPs to cover topics such as treating OCD at step 2, working with post-natal depression and using CBT-i (CBT for Insomnia).

We also encourage all of our PWPs to work on a Champion Project / Specialist Area.

We give allocated time for PWPs to work on improving access to hard to reach groups as well as ensuring what we offer patients meets their needs.

Some champion projects we have currently include BAME, Older Adults, Younger Adults and LGBTQ+.

The service very much cares about your wellbeing and we have a lot of wellbeing initiatives to support staff such as yearly away days, face to face meetings and events and a wellbeing hour each month

If you are a qualified or nearly qualified PWP, Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service might be the right place for you

Out mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve

Our values are:
We Care. We Respect.

We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

For full details of the job, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For contact details please see below.