Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Workington, United Kingdom Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The post-holder will work within the NHS North Cumbria Talking Therapies Service within in North Cumbria. The service provides evidence-based psychological therapies, as recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care excellence (NICE), for individuals with common mental health problems such as mild to moderate depression, anxiety disorders (e.g. PTSD, GAD, panic disorder, health anxiety and OCD) and mild bulimia.

This service is an 8am - 8pm service with some weekend work. We cover North Cumbria and have two main bases in Workington and Carlisle. The post holder will be based in one of these main sites and will be required to work into a number of venues across the locality.

We offer a combination of face-to-face and remote working (telephone and video consultation delivered either from one of our office bases or via home working), this offers the opportunity for increased flexibility and improved work / life balance.

This is an exciting opportunity to train in delivering low intensity CBT based psychological therapies. Working in collaboration with the University you will be employed by the service working both clinically at the same time as training. The role involves:
Undertaking weekly training at university

Working in service when not in university

Organisation and the ability to balance a high clinical caseload with the academic demands of university

Study within own time

The role of a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) is to provide high quality, short term, psychological interventions within a Step 2 framework. This involves:
providing CBT informed interventions, including guided self-help treatment.

Psycho-educational workshops and computerised CBT (cCBT) to patients experiencing common mental health problems.

Complete Triage assessments, identifying most appropriate treatment options and making onward referrals when necessary.

Have an active involvement with service development and promotion.

As a Trainee and ongoing within service once qualified you will receive regular Case Management Supervision, Line Management Supervision, Clinical Skills Supervision and further training opportunities, to ensure development of core skills and practice.

The post-holder will provide compassionate care that is based on empathy,
kindness, respect and dignity.

The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

The service is comprised of Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, Counsellors and Employment Advisors. The post holder will work with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.

We provide high quality evidence-based therapy to people with common mental health problems, self-referred or referred by GP’s, and work as part of the existing Mental Health service structure across the Trust. Establishing and maintaining appropriate links with both Primary and Secondary care elements of the service.

Working 37.5 hours per week, arranged flexibly within service hours where service permits. We would consider suggestions of any reasonable working plan to balance service needs and personal preferences.

**Benefits of joining our team**:
Staff benefits including pension, discounts and staff support services.

Flexible working opportunities

Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave for eligible staff

Relocation package for eligible staff

Annual leave entitlement of 27 days per year for new starters increasing to 29 days after 5 years of service and 33 after 10 years of service plus bank holidays.

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

Our highly skilled and dedicated team strives to maintain fidelity to the NHS talking therapies model and provide psychological therapies in line with NICE guidance and according to the national manual. We pride ourselves on keeping our clients at the centre of all that we do. We work hard to ensure our practitioners are supported in meeting these needs as well as developing their own clinical practice. We value and support our team through variety of measures including;
The provision of excellent Supervision, both clinical and management, access to both individual and group supervision frameworks

Working alongside a well
- established, successful, integrated Employment Advisor service

We participate in relevant research programmes aimed at improving services for both staff and patients, staff are encouraged to be part of this, (examples include staff burnout, Self-Practice Self-Reflection).

Patient experience is routinely sought and shared within the team, this influences decision making at every level pertaining to

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