Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Whittington Health NHS Trust Full time
This is an exciting opportunity to help develop this brand new role.

The role has been created to further Whittington Health's pioneering goals around inclusion using the Workforce Equality Standards framework and also Haringey IAPT's innovative and extensive research into equity and equality of access within the borough.


We are an award-winning service in a Trust that is rated as 'Good' with CQC and OUTSTANDING for community services.


The post holder will be a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, ideally two years post qualification, who will have responsible for Community Engagement and Outreach working to promote the service and increase engagement of BAME groups.

They will be passionate about equality, equity and diversity.

This post will be partly office based and partly remote working.


The post holder's main role will be engaging community organisations, the voluntary sector, social care, and primary and secondary care organisations in Haringey IAPT's prevention initiatives and delivering psychoeducational workshops on various topics and themes within the vibrant multicultural and multilingual community of Haringey.

The workshops are delivered in a wide array of organisations within Haringey including community venues, charities, schools and colleges, and care homes, to name a few.

The post holder will need to be flexible and easily adaptable to deliver workshops both to the public, and social and health care professionals.

They will need to be able to use technology in a flexible way in order to deliver workshops and outreach using a range of medium including face-to-face and remotely.


  • 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.
  • Clinical Responsibilities
  • 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 in the running of selfhelp groups, activities and use of selfhelp material, information and other mental health resources as appropriate.
  • Under supervision, to manage a small caseload of clients who have mild to moderate anxiety and/or depression referred and assessed by the GP, other professionals or selfreferred.
  • 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 selfhelp methods.
  • To ensure that work is patient focussed, responsive to need and culturally competent and sensitive.
  • To support practice staff in their management of patients with mental health needs.
  • To provide clinical supervision to 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.
  • To assist and develop new ideas for generating new referrals and offering evidence based psychoeducational interventions in to further the Service's need for outreach and engagement
  • To work using the BABCP positive practice guide, Haringey IAPT research and Workforce Equality Standards to reduce stigma, increase engagement and knowledge of IAPT in Haringey particularly with client groups that are currently underrepresented in the servic
2 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 t


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