Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

**Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (Mid Cornwall)**:
**Band 5**:
**Main area**
- Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
- **Grade**
- Band 5
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Service hours flexible between Mon to Fri 08.00-20.00)
- **Job ref**
- 201-24-158**Site**
- NHS Talking Therapies Mid Cornwall (Roche)
- **Town**
- Roche
- **Salary**
- £28,407 - £34,581 Per annum/Pro rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 23/02/2024 23:59
- **Interview date**
- 08/03/2024Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

**_Great Organisation_**
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

**_Great People_**
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

**_Great Partner_**
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
**Are you passionate about delivering high quality patient care? Do you want to work in a service who values you and supports your development? Are you looking for new challenges and innovative ways of working? If so, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly’s NHS Talking Therapies is the service for you**

We are currently recruiting qualified PWPs as part of an exciting expansion which has quality patient care and staff wellbeing at the heart of it. Ideally, we are looking for someone to work in a hybrid way (a blend of remote and face to face working).

Applicants must have completed PWP training from an accredited Low Intensity course, have experience working in the stepped care model delivering Low Intensity Psychological Interventions to patients experiencing mild to moderate common mental health difficulties and have PWP registration. We are committed to supporting you reach your full potential by providing CPD opportunities and you will receive Clinical Case Management Supervision, Clinical Skills Supervision, Reflective Practice Supervision and regular Line Management.

**Main duties of the job**:
As a PWP you play an integral part in the everyday workings of the service, from promotional work to assessing patients to providing clinical evidence-based interventions to help service users make lasting changes in managing their mental health.

Post holders will be completing clinical contacts 1:1 face to face, over the telephone, video consultation, group courses (remotely and in person) and cCBT. Where needed, holding discussions with step 3 and/or step 4 clinicians to ensure step ups and safe onward referrals are completed and that patient dignity and confidentiality is maintained at all times. There will also be opportunities for community outreach work to promote the work we do to other services, educational settings and careers events.

The post-holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities. The post-holder will be required to work at any times between 8am and 8pm on weekdays, as required by the service. The post-holder will also be required to participate in evening clinics offered by the service between 5pm and 8pm.

Alongside LI and HI CBT, the service offers Counselling for Depression, Couples Therap