Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) IAPT - Band 5 with Golden Hello Bonus Pay and relocation costs

**Hours per Week**: 37.5

**Job Type**: permanent, full time posts

We’re a well-established and friendly service looking for an enthusiastic PWP who enjoy variety, new experiences and autonomy.

You will enjoy a culture of energy, innovation and support. We are investing in staff with:

- a generous CPD programme.
- Clinical skills
- Reflective practice
- Clinical supervision
- Regular line management
- supportive management team

**You will have the opportunity to**:

- Work in a diverse team
- lead on specialist interests & service development.
- Deliver assessments, groups and treatments
- Deliver supervision (1-year post qualification)

We promote a healthy work-life balance and operate an agile working policy where staff combine working at home and on site.

This post attracts a'golden hello' bonus payment.This is additional pay at Inner London Rate paid over 2 years. We can also pay £8000 towards relocation costs.

**Job Summary**: - To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the Hounslow IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) service. This will involve providing mental health screening assessments and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified member of the Hounslow IAPT team, working independently according to a plan agreed with the line manager and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects and project work.
- The post holder will work with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities
- The post involves being able to work at least one evening session (i.e. 12pm - 8pm one day).

Clinical duties for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - PWP will include:

- screening new referrals and making decisions about suitability of referrals
- assessing clients to review their needs and suitability for the service
- offering a range of treatment options including GSH, online treatment, groups
- other opportunities may arise where staff are able to develop a champion role
- Staff who have 1 years post qualification may also have the opportunity to offer supervision to trainee PWPs.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental and physical health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We are rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

Covid-19 vaccination is a condition of employment for this role, unless an exemption applies. The successful applicant may have contact with vulnerable service users and we will therefore seek proof of being fully vaccinated during the recruitment process.

**Key Result Areas & Performance**:
**Clinical**:

- To provide screening assessments, case management and treatment at Low Intensity/Step 2, following agreed protocols
- To take personal responsibility for achieving agreed clinical activity relating to the number of agreed contact hours per week.
- To assist patients in the use of computer therapy programmes as part of their clinical care, and evaluating their use.
- To assist specific psychological clinical work with adult patients for example going out with patients in exposure work and relaxation training, and going through self-help manuals with patients, under the supervision of a qualified member of the IAPT team as part of their clinical care.
- To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
- To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
- To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.

Workforce
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- The majority of referrals to the Hounslow IAPT service come vi