A qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner post within NHS Talking Therapies at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. The role centres on delivering low-intensity therapy and running group sessions alongside high-intensity therapists for step 3 work, plus promoting the service and delivering group webinars. It is hybrid, with at least two office days a week and around 10% of clinical contacts held outside standard hours. Appointment as a qualified PWP depends on current accreditation; without it, the offer would be made at trainee level.
What the job involves
- Deliver psychological therapy to people with common mental health problems for most of the working day
- Work alongside high intensity therapists to run step 3 groups
- Deliver group webinars
- Promote the service when clinical work allows
- Deliver 10% of clinical contacts outside normal 9-5 hours
- Meet agreed service targets and manage own caseload
- Assess common mental health problems
- Enter clinical notes on the electronic patient record
- Use clinical supervision and CPD to reflect on and develop practice
- Evaluate the effect of training on practice
- Travel across the organisation as a car driver
- Carry laptop and files between office and remote working under trust policies
What’s required
Qualifications
- Talking Therapies (IAPT) Graduate or Post Graduate Certificate in Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Interventions
Registration & licences
- PWP registration with BABCP or BPS, or eligible and willing to apply
- Current PWP accreditation at the time of appointment for a qualified PWP post
Experience
- Significant experience of working with people with mental health difficulties in a healthcare setting
- Experience of working in primary care services
- Experience in a service with agreed targets demonstrating clinical outcomes
- Understanding of anxiety and depression and how they present in primary care
- Knowledge of how work issues affect mental health
Skills & knowledge
- Advanced communication skills, including excellent interpersonal and telephone skills
- High standard of written communication and computer literacy for electronic records
- Ability to manage own caseload, time and agreed service targets
- Ability to assess common mental health problems
- Understanding of evidence-based psychological therapies and their relevance to the post
- Ability to build good therapeutic relationships and work well in a team
Checks & eligibility
- Car driver with willingness to travel to locations across the organisation
Other
Respect for individual autonomy and confidentiality, and commitment to inclusive, anti-discriminatory practice
Nice to have
- Experience of representing psychology within multi-disciplinary care
- Knowledge of medication used for anxiety, depression and other common mental health problems
What’s offered
- Full internal CPD programme running throughout the year
- Hybrid working, with full-time office working available
- Choice of full-time, part-time, flexible or compressed hours
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