Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

**Key Responsibilities**: Clinical 1. To help ensure that practitioners working within Northumberland Talking Therapy sites are able to offer rapid screening and assessment, supported by appropriate systems and processes. 2. To help ensure that practitioners are adequately skilled to provide assessment and low intensity interventions e.g.

psycho-educational interventions, Guided Self Help, computerised CBT based on evidence and on CBT theories and techniques. 3. To help ensure that step 2 interventions are an integral part of services that are comprehensive and accessible to a broad range of patients with common mental health problems over 16 years of age. 4.

To help ensure that step 2 services across Northumberland Talking Therapy sites develop to meet local needs or priorities; this might include developing the suites of psycho-educational classes on offer in each locality. 5. To help ensure that step 2 staff are able to meet service targets and KPIs both individually and as teams in each of our Talking Therapy sites. 6.

To help ensure that services are equitable and non-discriminatory in terms of age, gender, ethnicity and disability. 7. To help ensure that suitable referral pathways are in place to support GPs and other potential referrers in making appropriate referrals and in carrying out the mental health aspects of their own roles. 8.

To help ensure that suitable onward referral pathways are in place to enable our staff to make appropriate referrals to other service providers in the statutory and voluntary sectors and redirect patients to other sources of appropriate support within their local community as required. 9. To help develop a local knowledge of the various localities and their services and facilities, particularly in relation to mental health issues. 10.

To help ensure that services are flexible as far as possible in terms of clinic hours, enabling clinics to be run outside normal working hours where necessary. 11. Liaise as appropriate with secondary care mental health services and social service departments. To help support practitioners to conduct risk assessments, prepare risk management plans and initiate appropriate action where indicated (including requests for mental health act assessments and referrals to relevant secondary care services).

Supervision and Training 1. Undertake own clinical and management supervision on a regular basis in accordance with relevant professional guidelines and policies. 2. To help ensure that qualified and trainee PWPs within our Talking Therapy services receive sufficient and suitable case management supervision and clinical skills supervision to enable them to carry out their role safely and effectively.

3. Provide CMS and clinical skills supervision to PWPs and trainee PWPs as necessary. 4. To help co-ordinate and provide training and CPD opportunities to PWP teams across our Talking Therapy sites.

5. Offer training to Primary Care staff in CBT based interventions. 6. Attend locally organised and national training appropriate to the work role.

Professional Take personal responsibility for Northumberland Talking Therapy sites to achieve service targets and KPIs. 2. To act as a resource of information relating to low intensity CBT for the whole organisation. 3.

Adhere to the policies and procedures of NTT, Sunderland Counselling Service and partner organisations as required. 4. Maintain appropriate clinical records in keeping with service operational policy. 5.

Participate in setting and review of objectives for the post on an annual basis. 6. Participate in activities of continuing professional development (CPD) on an annual basis. 7.

Attend meetings as appropriate, including the senior clinical and operational management teams across Northumberland Talking Therapy sites. Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times. Exercise personal responsibility for the systematic clinical governance of low intensity interventions. Proactively take responsibility for attending supervision, case management and line management regularly, participate in objective setting, performance reviews and respond to agreed objectives.

Promote and contribute to the development and maintenance of a healthy therapeutic culture within the service amongst colleagues and service users. Management 1. To help ensure that qualified and trainee PWPs within our Talking Therapy services receive sufficient and suitable case management supervision and clinical skills supervision to enable them to carry out their role safely and effectively. 2.

Provide CMS and clinical skills supervision to PWPs and trainee PWPs as necessary. 3. To help ensure that staff teams achieve appropriate targets in terms of weekly clinical activity, number of contacts per week, case load etc. 4.

To help ensure that staff teams maintain appropriate clinical records in keeping with service operational policy. 5. To help ensure staff teams maintain outcome data and achieve recovery tar