Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

A blended home working and office approach available.

We are delighted to announce that we recruiting for a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) in the East Riding Emotional Wellbeing Service, Humber NHS teaching Foundation Trust.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit dedicated, enthusiastic and innovative individuals to join a growing and evolving team. Working as a Senior PWP within the team you will help to develop, support and train staff along with providing low intensity therapy to the East Riding Population. In this position the majority of the work will be home working with the expectation of attending the office/base twice a month as per service need.
- We are a Lead Provider of IAPT services in the East Riding and work closely with our partner providers,
- We are an Accredited Service with an excellent reputation
- We are proud of the high quality of service we offer to our community.
- This is an exciting time to become part of our highly motivated and skilled team.

The Service supports people aged 16 and upwards in the community providing a range of recovery focused IAPT interventions for people with mild, moderate and severe common mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. The service provides a stepped care treatment approach. The post holder will:

- Manage a caseload of patients with mild to moderate common mental health problems
- Provide caseload, clinical and managerial supervision to the PWP team
- Making decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocol
- Review and create pathways alongside management and clinical leads
- Attend regular clinical and managerial supervision
- Attend CPD days
- To work within Service/Trust protocols/ policies
- To work with a diverse population
- To fulfil supervisor responsibilities
- Ensure the supervision and professional development system for step 2 is in line with National IAPT guidance.

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust that delivers integrated health services to communities across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. To find out more about our wide range of services visit humber.nhs.uk/Services

You will join our team of over 3,000 colleagues that work together to change lives. lives. We’re proud of our Trust community and we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need from your new team to get you started.

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our staff and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire is a great place to live and offers some of the most competitive house prices in the country with access to excellent schools and further and higher education providers.

We offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing.

**Including**:

- Free on-site parking
- Buy and sell annual leave
- Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
- Extra day off on completion of mandatory training and receiving your flu vaccination
- Wide-range of Health & Wellbeing benefits

Please see job description and personal specification for more details.

The post-holder will work within the IAPT service providing low intensity psychological interventions and will manage a caseload of mild to moderate psychological disorders, complete assessments and make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s Service protocols and Trust Policies. The post holder will demonstrate specialist clinical skills in practice and provide support/advice regarding service development and the delivery of care, in partnership with service users, carers, staff, managers and other agencies.

The post holder will work with a diverse population, people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.

The post-holder may need to fulfil supervisor responsibilities dependant on Service needs.

The Service currently works with patients via the telephone, online and uses digital platforms to deliver interventions, so the ability to do this is a requirement.