Wellbeing Team Leader

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

**Job overview**:
We are able to looking for passionate, motivated, and inspirational leaders to work within our Operational Leadership teams in Suffolk.

The Team Lead position provides an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual with a strong clinical background in mental health and a good understanding of the challenges of working as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist or Mental Health Practitioner.

Team Leaders work at both Step 2 and Step 3 within the service, this vacancy will be focused within the Step 2 Team (see below).

If you have the vision, drive and experience to offer dynamic leadership to a group of hardworking clinicians, we would love to hear from you.

**Main duties of the job**:
You will be involved in planning and coordinating interventions for people with common mental health problems wanting to access and receive the treatment offered by our bio-psycho-social service.

As a service, we offer a range of psychological, employment and community interventions across Suffolk.

At Step 2 this includes high volume evidence-based practice in the form of one-to-one guided self
- help, predominantly delivered by telephone, psycho-educational groups and computerised CBT. At Step 3 we offer individual and group CBT, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Couples Therapy for Depression, Counselling for Depression and EMDR.

You will be offered robust supervision and access to the NSFT Leadership Academy, providing opportunities for Coaching, Mentorship and Leadership training. The Service has strong links with the University of East Anglia and a keen interest in research at all steps.

**Please note this is a hybrid role and time on site (Ipswich) and at home will be required. ( The current expectation is 3 days on site)

**Working for our organisation**:
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other.

We will pay for your initial DBS check (excluding the annual update service charge of £16).

**Benefits**

Benefits included with this role are:

- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:

- Please note interviews will take place in person at one of our sites either Mariner House Ipswich or Hospital Road Bury St Edmunds TBC_

For further details / informal visits contact:
**Name**
- Katie Webster

**Job title**
- Deputy Service Manager

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Qualification Or Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and BABCP Accredited. Or Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and BACP Accredited. Or Nursing degree or equivalent or Dip OT or Core Profession

**Desirable criteria**:

- ILM certificate in management or equivalent experience

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of working within a primary care setting.

YOUR APPLICATION
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES _Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief._
- As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying._

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