Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
hace 3 días
Liverpool
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Job overviewWe are looking for enthusiastic and motivated Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to join our dynamic and innovative service that delivers psychological interventions for people with mild to moderate depression and anxiety related disorders in Liverpool. You will be familiar with primary care psychological services, and will deliver low intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy based treatment.Important Note: You MUST hold a recognised Post Graduate Certificate / qualification which demonstrates that you are specifically trained to work as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner OR be toward the end of studying for this qualification, and expect to complete this within 3 months. You should only apply if you have undergone / are completing training for a specific PWP role. Owing to National requirements around Psychological Well Being Practitioner registration, qualified PWPs will need to have registration in place or newly qualified staff to achieve this within 6 months of qualifying.Main duties of the jobYou must also be able to demonstrate high levels of written and verbal communication; be computer literate and be able to demonstrate good therapeutic relationships with people.You will have experience of working in primary care and community settings and be able to work on your own initiative.You should have a real interest in helping people with anxiety and depression to achieve a level of recovery which will improve their overall wellbeing and day to day life.Ideally, you will also be experienced in facilitating courses/workshops for patients and/or community members (or have a willingness to get involved in the delivery of groups) and experience of delivering cCBT via SilverCloud (or willingness to learn).Working for our organisationMersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesFor full detail of the job description and person specification, please see attached documentation which holds information in more depth.Person specificationQualificationEssential criteria- Having passed an accredited course and being specifically qualified as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner – i.e. PGCert in Primary Care Mental Health Practice / PGCert Low Intensity CBT Practitioner- Registration with either the BABCP or the BPS (or for newly qualified/appointed staff, to achieve this within 12 months)Desirable criteria- Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.- Health or Social Care related degreeKnowledge/ExperienceEssential criteria- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care- Proven relevant experience of working with people with common mental health problems- Ability to manage own workload and time- Ability to demonstrate high standards in written communication- Able to write clear reports and letters- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training- Computer literate- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clientsDesirable criteria- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health- Knowledge of self-help materials for managing common mental health problems.- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems- Proven relevant experience of working in Primary Care Services- Proven relevant experience of working in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes- Proven relevant experience of working in the local community- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this postValuesEssential criteria- Continuous Improvement- Accountability- Respectfulness- Enthusiasm- Support- High professional standards- Responsive to service users- Engaging leadership style- Strong customer service belief- Transparency and honesty- Discreet- Change orientedSkillsEssential criteria- Ability to evaluate and integrate training into practice- Computer literate- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.- Advanced communication skills- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively- Ability to work under pressure- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality- Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision- Ability to manage own workload and time- Ability to demonstrate high standards in written communication- Able to write clear reports and letters- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clientsDesirable criteria- Fluent in community languages other than English- Car driver and / or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the MERSEYCARE footprint----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children’s & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - working requests will be considered for all roles.Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.