We are looking for passionate, motivated, and inspirational leaders to work within our Operational Leadership Teams in Suffolk.

This position provides an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual with strong clinical background in mental health and a good understanding of the challenges of working as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist or Mental Health Practitioner.

If you have the vision, drive and experience to offer dynamic leadership to a group of hardworking clinicians, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will be involved in planning and coordinating interventions for people with common mental health problems wanting to access and receive the treatment offered by our bio-psycho-social service.

As a service, we offer a range of psychological, employment and social interventions across Suffolk.

At Step 3 we offer individual and group CBT, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Couples Therapy for Depression, Counselling for Depression and EMDR.

You will be offered robust supervision and access to the NSFT Leadership Academy, providing opportunities for Coaching, Mentorship and Leadership training. The Service has strong links with the University of East Anglia and a keen interest in research at all steps.

Please note the service works flexibly and time on site and at home will be required.

About us

Benefits included with this role are:-

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

We will pay for your initial DBS check (excluding the annual update service charge of £13)

Job responsibilities

Wellbeing Suffolk delivers NHS Talking Therapies and is currently benchmarked in the top three NHS Talking Therapies Services in the country with workforce surveys evidencing high morale. The service was recently awarded continuation to deliver the Talking Therapies contract for a further five years, with a potential to extend for a further 5 years. This award builds on existing strengths to deliver the new model launched agreed in September 2024, so, a very exciting time to be joining the service.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

If you have recently been unsuccessful at interview we would encourage you to consider if re-applying is appropriate based on the feedback offered and the timeframe since your last interview.

Please note interviews will take place in person at one of our sites either Mariner House Ipswich or Hospital Road Bury St Edmunds TBC

Candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days notice. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

For more information about our service please visit our website at https://www.wellbeingnands.co.uk

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Person Specification

Qualification

• Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Qualification
• Or Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and BABCP Accredited. Or Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and BACP Accredited. Or Nursing degree or equivalent or Dip OT or Core Profession
• Or Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and BACP Accredited.
• Or Nursing degree or equivalent or Dip OT or Core Profession
• ILM certificate in management or equivalent
• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment
• Experience of working within a primary care setting.

Skills

• Effective analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
• PMA Training

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.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yeargross per annum