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Job overview

Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP)

Contract: Permanent. Full-Time 37.5 hours per week

Salary £33,706 - £40,588 plus 15% HCAS

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. If you are committed to making a difference, we'd love to hear from you.

The post holder will:

• 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; two days on site, three days from home each week

You will need:

• Post Graduate Certificate in Evidence based Low Intensity Psychological Treatments (Talking Therapies NHS approved)
• Minimum of one year post qualification PWP experience
• PWP supervisor training (desirable)

Main duties of the job

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. They may also be involved in triaging referrals to the service.

The post holder will work closely with the Step 2 Lead to support service development and innovation, with new initiatives and ways of working within the service.

In addition, the post holder will maintain a reduced case load of patients and deliver Step 2 CBT based interventions.

The post holder will work with the Outreach Lead in delivering workshops, liaising and engaging with community groups, services.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. 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. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.
• To support and assist patient referral to other services as appropriate.
• In collaboration with colleagues and under supervision, to provide a range of evidenced based brief interventions using guided self-help methods.
• To ensure that work is patient focussed, responsive to need and culturally competent and sensitive.
• 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 Service's 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 be responsible for conducting audit and research appropriate to the post.
• 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.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level
• Qualified (through formal PG Cert Training) Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• 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 criteria

• 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

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent written and oral communication skills one to one and group situations
• Work independently and effectively within a small team
• Ability to secure health information from relevant health specialists to inform the process of assessment
• Well organised and willing to learn new computer skills rapidly

Desirable criteria

• Previous work with computer databases and spreadsheets
• Evidence of innovative thinking to meet challenging health needs

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form -

1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes -

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
Documents to download

• Senior PWP Job DesPers Spec (PDF, 463.9KB)
• Senior PWP B6 JDPS (PDF, 344.4KB)
• Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB)
• Whittington Employment Promise (PDF, 22.4KB)