Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner in London

We are an established and friendly service looking for an enthusiastic PWP seeking variety, new experiences and autonomy.

Clinical caseload for a full time PWP: 7 x assessments, 19 x treatments. Job plan will also include screening referrals.

We Invest In Staff With:

• A healthy work-life balance, including a hybrid working week.
• Reflective practice, excellent case management and clinical skills supervision.
• 5 days allocated to CPD with a comprehensive program to choose from.
• The chance to develop clinical and managerial skills (e.g. opportunities for involvement in champion roles, service improvement projects, LTC training and supervisor opportunities).
• Regular line management and support from our dedicated wellbeing team.

Main duties of the job:

• You will support the psychological care of clients accessing the service.
• Clinical duties include:

• screening referrals
• assessing clients to determine their needs and suitability
• offering a range of treatment options (e.g. GSH and groups)
• clinical administration
• liaising with healthcare providers to support onward referrals.

About Us:

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK. Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness. We would welcome applications from candidates who speak a second language.

Essential Qualifications & Training:

• Completed or near completion of Talking Therapies Low Intensity worker/Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner qualification.
• PWP Registration with the British Psychological Society (BPS) or the British Association of Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).

Desirable:

• A second class honours degree or higher in psychology.
• Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
• Talking Therapies LTC Training.

Essential Experience:

• Experience of working clinically with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities.
• Ability to demonstrate a range of post-qualification experiences in offering and delivering the range of evidence-based Talking Therapies low Intensity interventions such as guided self-help and group psycho-education.
• Experience of working with people who present with risk to themselves.
• Experience of managing sensitive safeguarding concerns.
• Experience of working sensitively and compassionately with diversity.
• Experience in challenging stigma and inequality, and promoting inclusive clinical practice.

Desirable:

• Experience of co-working with staff in other agencies (e.g. health visitors or staff in drug and alcohol services).
• Experience in developing groups/resources or therapeutic content within low intensity CBT parameters.
• Experience delivering assessment and LICBT treatment in a language other than English.

Essential Knowledge & Skills:

• Knowledge of different models of mental health/mental illness.
• Knowledge of NHS Policies, procedures and guidelines and clinical governance.
• Knowledge of working sensitively with diversity (including working with black & minority ethnic groups).
• Knowledge of Evidence-based practice.
• Skills in assessment (including clinical risk assessment) and record keeping.
• Knowledge of outcome measures and their use in clinical and audit purposes.
• High level of communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
• An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context.
• Ability to accept and use different forms of clinical supervision appropriately and effectively.
• Ability to manage changing priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively with interpreters.

Desirable:

• An awareness of severe and enduring mental health presentations (including psychosis, bi-polar).
• Ability to carry out a range of evaluation and monitoring techniques.

Essential Personal Qualities:

• An ability to develop positive therapeutic relationships with people with mental health difficulties.
• An ability to work well within a team and foster good working relationships with staff from all disciplines.
• Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with a busy workload agreed and managed at regular intervals.
• Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in context of supervision.

Essential Other:

• Available to work at least one evening shift per week.
• Able to work with clients on the telephone, online and face-to-face.
• Holds a private and confidential space at home, necessary for working from home.
• Able to travel and work on site at the main hub (The Isleworth Centre, 146 Twickenham Rd) as well as other site locations throughout the London Borough of Hounslow, at least two days per week.

Please note that we are not able to offer 100% remote working.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.