Psychological Interventions Facilitator

Thinking of a career in Mental Health? or want a career route to become a therapist but don’t have the required hours of clinical experience?

If the above ignites your interest the Psychological Intervention Facilitator (PIF) position could be for you. It is a new band 4 community-based role to support people to develop psychological intervention skills under the supervision of a trained therapist. The role requires you to complete a Trust delivered training program a day a week whilst working as part of a team of therapists in the community on your other working days.

You will work as part of the Stamford CMHT that will build integrated ways of working and provide a collaborative approach to delivering local services. This includes involvement from health, social care, local authority, third sector and voluntary and community organisations; everyone working together to find solutions to the health and wellbeing challenges in Lincolnshire.

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The Psychological Intervention Facilitator (PIF) role aims to deliver defined wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles. Increasing the psychological mindedness of the workforce this role will be located in various teams across the adult community mental health and older people and frailty services.

The post-holder will engage in a trust led vocational training programme for the delivery of specified wellbeing interventions and deliver these interventions to patients on their caseload under the close supervision of a nominated psychological practitioner in their team. Attendance at weekly case management supervision and fortnightly clinical skills is an essential part of the role

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team

Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.

Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation.

To be a named professional for a caseload of service users supporting and monitoring their progress in treatment.

To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users

To deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a wellbeing practitioner, clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including:
Behavioural activation

Graded exposure

Teaching problem-solving skills

Improving sleep

Recognising and managing emotions

Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating

Building confidence

Medication support

Relapse Prevention

To be responsive to service users’ needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.

To include carers and families in line with the service user’s wishes.

To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.

To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and care plans of service users in a skilled and sensitive manner in order to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients.

To develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention

To deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families and carers.

To form professional relationships with service users and communicate with them in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.

To monitor and record progression, highlight concerns and report any perceived changes in service users’ wellbeing to the team

To provide relevant information, written and oral, for records and reviews