Senior Mental Health Practitioner-Primary Care in London

Haringey Talking Therapies service is a thriving, dynamic service committed to excellence in its delivery of psychological interventions in Haringey's multi-cultural, multi-lingual community. We'd love you to join our friendly and supportive team, which offers great opportunities for training, career development and the chance for you to share your ideas and initiative.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual who has the enthusiasm and skills to join as a Senior PWP.

• Deliver weekly case management supervision to a team of PWPs
• Deliver clinical skills training to Trainee PWPs
• Work on service developments as needed
• Conduct clinical work with an adjusted caseload
• Work with the Outreach Lead in delivering workshops, liaising and engaging with community groups, services
• Offer screening supervision after first triage
• Work within a large established team of CBT therapists, PWPs & counsellors
• Work one late shift per week (12 to 8 pm)
• Offer hybrid work

Minimum of one year post qualification PWP experience

PWP supervisor training (desirable)

We particularly welcome staff members who can speak and work in languages that reflect the diverse communities in our Borough. The Post holder will be part of a team of clinicians under the leadership of the Haringey Talking Therapies Senior Management Team. The post holder will provide step 2 case management, run clinical skills workshops for trainee PWPs and support screening supervision. The post holder will work with the Outreach Lead in delivering workshops, liaising and engaging with community groups, services.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

Clinical Responsibilities

• To support staff in their management of patients with mental health needs.
• To provide clinical supervision to PWPs, trainee PWPs and other unqualified step 2 workers (e.g. assistant psychologists, honorary staff) according to clinical expertise and service.
• To screen new referrals to the service, and following screening to liaise as appropriate with secondary care mental health services and social service departments.
• Under supervision, to manage a reduced caseload of clients who have mild to moderate anxiety and/or depression referred and assessed by the GP, other professionals or self-referred.
• In collaboration with colleagues and under supervision, to provide a range of evidenced based brief interventions using guided self-help methods.
• To assist in the running of self-help groups, activities and use of self-help material, information and other mental health resources as appropriate.
• To engage health and social care professionals, as well as local community groups, promote the service, and deliver psychoeducational workshops to various groups in the local community.
• To assist and develop new ideas for generating new referrals and offering evidence based psycho-educational interventions in to further the Services need for outreach and engagement.

Clinical Governance

• To Follow Trust guidelines in relation to Record Keeping, Data Protection and confidentiality.
• To collect data relevant to the work indicating performance outcomes.
• To audit appropriate health information publishing findings where appropriate.
• To keep professionally updated.
• To work with the team in developing policies/guidelines appropriate to work/role and review effectiveness.
• To work at all times within the policies and procedures of Whittington NHS Trust, advising managers when gaps within the policy framework are identified and when existing policy needs reviewing.

Professional Development

• To identify own training needs and take opportunity to update professional knowledge and skills through training programmes.
• To participate in staff development and appraisal systems.
• To continually evaluate own professional practice and develop new ways of working.
• To actively participate in the development of Talking Therapy Services.

Essential

• Educated to degree level
• Qualified (through formal PG Cert Training) Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
• Experience of delivering workshops and public speaking
• Excellent communications skills, and comfortable presenting to small and large audiences
• Significant consolidation of post-qualifying experience of working with people with common mental health problems.
• Ability to learn at a post-graduate level
• Understanding of mental health issues
• Working with other agencies statutory and voluntary
• Experience of working in primary care

Desirable

• Experience of working in a multicultural setting
• Experience of supervising others in a therapeutic setting eg. clinical supervision or clinical skills.
• Experience in marketing, communications, and/or promotion
• Reading, writing, and speaking in Turkish or any of most common languages spoken in the borough

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.