Band 6 Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - Devizes/Salisbury

The Wiltshire Talking Therapies service offers support to clients who may be experiencing common mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, stress and low mood, offering evidence-based treatments based on the difficulties the patient is experiencing.

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (Snr PWP). This post is open to qualified and experienced PWPs who have completed low intensity supervision training. You will work as a key member of the senior PWP team to provide Case Management Supervision, Clinical Skills Supervision and Line Management to Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, Trainees and Assistants.

We are currently operating a hybrid working arrangement, where you will be based at either Green Lane Hospital, Devizes or Fountain Way Hospital, Salisbury combined with opportunities for remote working from home.

Main duties of the job include:

• Providing high-volume, low-intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) based self-management interventions to support clients presenting to the service with mild to moderate common mental health problems.
• Providing Case Management Supervision, Clinical Skills Supervision and Line Management to Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and Assistant Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners under the direction of the Lead Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner and Head of Service.
• Offering assessment and referral advice, informed by knowledge of service provision, the spectrum of mental health needs and presenting risk factors.
• Providing low-intensity interventions e.g. psychoeducational courses/workshops, computerised CBT and one-to-one guided self-help using telephone, video conferencing and face-to-face formats.
• Maintaining the relevant Professional Registration required for the post.
• Providing a service that is comprehensive and accessible to a broad range of patients who are experiencing mild to moderate common mental health problems, who are over 16 years of age and registered with a GP Practice/Health Centre in the Wiltshire area.
• Supporting GPs and other Health Care Professionals to make decisions regarding appropriateness of patients for primary care Talking Therapies interventions.
• Making appropriate referrals to other service providers in the statutory and voluntary sectors and redirecting patients to other sources of appropriate support within the local community as required.
• Conducting risk assessments, preparing risk management plans and initiating appropriate action where indicated.
• Participating in the services Duty system offering support and guidance to practitioners, administrators, other professionals and to clients and their families as required.
• Taking a lead on the development, planning and promotion of courses/workshops, teaching new and existing staff members in facilitating these courses/workshops as required.
• Working proactively with Senior PWP colleagues towards shared objectives, ensuring the constant effective functioning of CBT and group interventions, and the supervision and training of practitioners.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: Essential: Talking Therapies Low Intensity CBT Therapies Practice/Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner qualification; Recognised training in Low Intensity Supervision.
• Knowledge: Essential: Knowledge and understanding of how common mental health problems may present in primary care; Knowledge and understanding of the Stepped-Care model and evidence-based brief psychological intervention.
• Skills: Essential: Able to work under pressure, manage competing demands, deal effectively with a high volume caseload and recognise the limitations of the role; Possess high levels of enthusiasm, motivation and a strong desire to contribute to service improvement.
• Experience: Essential: Evidence of significant, consolidated, reflective and supervised post-qualifying experience working with people with common mental health problems; Experience of developing, updating and facilitating CBT-based psycho-educational courses and computerised interventions.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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.