Mh Practitioner

Welcome to Hounslow IAPT. We are a well established and friendly team offering high quality psychological therapies to Hounslow residents. We are excited to launch new Mental Health Practitioner roles to become an integral part of a new screening and triage team. Offering daily consultation on risk and safeguarding issues to professionals and other stakeholders.

The successful applicant will enjoy a culture of excellence and innovation and a robust Trust and local induction programme. We pride ourselves on investing in our staff and support a generous CPD programme and will support the applicant to maintain their professional registration and connection to relevant Professional Leads and forums within the Trust There are opportunities to lead on specialist interests and contributing to service development and learning to employ Quality Improvement methodologies will be key parts of your role.

This role is an exciting opportunity for an experienced mental health professional who is passionate about learning and developing new ways of working and would welcome an NHS role that is dynamic and fast-paced within a healthy and supportive environment.

Your wellbeing is of paramount importance, and we are proud of our dedicated wellbeing team who promotes a healthy work-life balance and regular events to bring our team together.
- To provide a qualified specialist CBT service to clients of the Hounslow IAPT service. These clients are primarily suffering mild to moderate mental health problems, including anxiety and depression.
- To provide advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. It will involve supervision of other colleagues including trainee HI therapists and PWPs, as well as trainee psychologists and trainees from other professional groups as appropriate.
- The post involves being able to work flexibly and to be able to work at least one evening session (i.e. 12am - 8pm one day). The sessions would be based in the Isleworth Centre team base and Health Centres in the London Borough of Hounslow.
- The post holder works autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- The post holder will work with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.
- Vaccination Status: Covid-19 vaccination is a condition of employment for this role, unless an exemption applies. The successful applicant may have contact with vulnerable service users and we will therefore seek proof of being fully vaccinated during the recruitment process.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

The Hounslow IAPT service is provided by West London NHS Trust in partnership with Anchor Counselling and Twining Enterprise. The service operates from a main hub in Isleworth, with clinics also being run from sites in Feltham, Brentford, Chiswick and Hounslow Central and Hounslow West.

Our Step 3 team consists of 20 full-time high intensity therapists whoprovide one-to-one and group CBT and carry out face-to-face and telephone assessments for clients presenting with moderate to severe depression and anxiety disorders.

As a member of the step 3 team you would have opportunities to supervise PWPs and trainee CBT therapists as well as being able to deliver training and teaching to colleagues. There is potential for developing a champion role as well as the chance to develop skills in leadership, project management and QI.

We are committed to the development of our staff and have an in-house CPD programme which is shared with the Trust’s other IAPT services, plus access via the London IAPT programme to training in other therapeutic modalities such as IPT, EMDR and Behavioural Couples Therapy.

Hounslow IAPT has a supportive team culture which is evident in our high rates of staff retention within our Step 2 and 3 team and there are good opportunities for career progression. You will