Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Southampton, United Kingdom Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you a highly motivated and experienced Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner? Then come and join our team.

Both full and part time hours will be considered. As an innovative service, we offer the opportunity to offer a hybrid of community and remote working to fit around the service and your home life.

The Steps 2 Wellbeing service prides itself on being innovative and is passionate about development. We promote opportunities for career development and ongoing professional development including training in Long Term Health Conditions, supervisor training and support staff to progress into High Intensity CBT training.

We welcome informal enquiries and informal visits are also welcomed.

The post holder will work with clients who have a range of mild-moderate Anxiety and Depression related problems for which low intensity CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. To provide evidence based psychological interventions to clients; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues and to other, non professional carers, working under supervision within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

Applicants need to be proficient in the delivery of CBT based guided self-help interventions and have experience of working with common mental health problems in a primary care setting. A Post Graduate Certificate in Evidence Based Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is also essential.

Southampton has vacancies for both CORE and LTHC trained practitioners, and as part of an integrated service you will employ your clinical CBT skills to allow people to move forward on their journey. There will be opportunities for all staff to complete their Long-Term Health Conditions training. Good administrative, time management and communication skills are also essential. Experience of working within the NHS or similar organisation is highly desirable.

At Dorset HealthCare we’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We’re a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it’s one of the reasons the CQC rated us ‘outstanding’ in 2019. It’s also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you’re looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you’ll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don’t know. And you’ll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.



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