Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Communication and Working Relationship Skills 1. Co-ordinate and liaise between different staff groups including High Intensity Therapists, Case Managers, and Employment Workers. 2. Provide and receive information related to mental health and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques to individual or groups of service users, relatives, carers, members of the public and professionals.

3. Develop and maintain close professional therapeutic relationships with Service Users using Low Intensity CBT skills to bring about psychological change. 4. Communicate as appropriate with external agencies (including housing, police, local authority, employers, employment support workers etc).

5. Proactively develop robust professional relationships with the Primary Care team (e.g. General Practice staff) supporting the active integration of low intensity CBT provision into primary care. 6.

Develop and maintain good professional relationships with mental health workers in primary and secondary care. Analytical and Judgemental Skills Gather a range of facts and contexts, relevant to the Patients clinical care. Analyse and weigh the relative importance of the factors to form an understanding of the Service User(s) difficulties and relate these to the range of treatment options available, under supervision and case management of a senior therapist, form a judgement between the relative utilities of the treatment options and the Patients preferences. To collate clinical data from Patients on your caseload, within the overall framework of the required data output of the service with the intention of: (a) identifying and minimising risk, (b) optimising clinical effectiveness, (c) optimising service efficiency.
- Contribute to the clinical governance framework of the Service by identifying and acting on areas of concern, liaising and supporting senior clinicians who are taking the lead in designated areas of responsibility. Planning and Organisational Skills Responsibility for achieving agreed clinical activity relating to the number of therapy contact hours per week. To be responsible for organising and delivering caseload supervision in line with IAPT guidance 3.

Co-ordinate the activities of yourself to balance the conflicting: needs of Patients, demands of the different areas of service provision (e.g. the different GP surgeries), your own continuing professional development, and central service provision of the service. This will involve sudden changes in plans to respond to clinical emergencies on a frequent but not regular basis. 4.

Responsibility for recording case notes in a timely way Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy Clinical 1. Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times 2. To offer rapid screening and assessment, informed by knowledge of the spectrum of mental health needs and risk factors. 3.

Provide assessment and Low intensity interventions eg Group work interventions, Guided Self Help, to patients registered with GP practices/health centres drawing from CBT theories and techniques 4. Provide a service that is comprehensive and accessible to a broad range of patients who have commonplace mental health problems and who are over 18 years of age 5. To provide a service that is equitable and non-discriminatory in terms of age, gender, ethnicity and disability. 6.

Support GPs and other primary care workers in making appropriate referrals and in carrying out the mental health aspects of their own roles. 7. Make appropriate referrals to other service providers in the statutory and voluntary sectors and redirect patients to other sources of appropriate support within the local community as required. 8.

Develop a local knowledge of the locality and its services and facilities, particularly in relation to mental health issues. Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying Low intensity CBT formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language. 10. Provide a service that is flexible as far as possible in terms of clinic hours, enabling, where possible, at least one clinic to be run outside normal working hours.

11. Liaise as appropriate with secondary care mental health services and social service departments. Conduct risk assessments, prepare risk management plans and initiate appropriate action where indicated. Exercise personal responsibility for the systematic clinical governance of your own professional practice.

14. To develop an area of interest, to the level whereby the post-holder could become a resource of information for the whole service. Responsibility for Policy and Service Development Implementation Implement policies for your own work area under supervision, identify procedural areas of difficulty within your own work, and propose improvements thus contributing to policy or service changes in line with clinical governance and service objectives. Conduct audits of your work against agreed standards and make rec