Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Cheltenham, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

The Cheltenham & North Cotswolds NHS Talking Therapies team has an exciting opportunity for the right candidate who is a highly motivated and passionate person, who can work in a fast paced environment and has the desire to commit to the career of a Senior PWP.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) team leader will involve delivering coordination and supervision of PWP's within the NHS Gloucestershire Talking Therapy (IAPT) service North Team, providing caseload and clinical skills supervision to trainee and qualified PWP's. The role will be multi-faceted and will involve consultation, education, training and supervision as well as carrying a reduced clinical caseload. You will be required to contribute to the smooth running of all aspects of the service where the PWP role has an influence, ensuring that assessments and ongoing treatment are delivered at a high-quality level and consistent with operational standards.

Potential candidates will hold a Post Graduate Certificate (PG Cert) for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies for a minimum of 2 years, and will have had previous experience of working with individuals experiencing mental health difficulties within Primary Care Services. You must be prepared to undertake further training in delivering supervision if you do not hold this qualification. This post requires a high level of communication skills, including effective liaison with key staff both within service and the wider organisation and NHS. The post holder must be able to demonstrate the ability to work under pressure within a new role in a developing service.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views ( It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users; would recommend the organisation as a place to work; agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority; would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC aGreat Place to Work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the NationalPreceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHSEngland. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates,Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to PracticePractitioners. In addition to the programme we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrollingand completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module "Preceptorship for Healthcare(AP7026).

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

Post Graduate Certificate (PG Cert) for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies or equivalent. Educated to degree standard in a subject enabling the post holder to demonstrate psychological mindedness, Psychology, social sciences or health OR Equivalent level gained through prior relevant experience and accredited courses Member of the BABCP or equivalent professional body with a code of ethics.

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

Essential

Extensive post PWP qualification experience of working as a PWP delivering LI interventions in primary care Extensive direct experience of working with patients with a range of long term conditions Facilitated psychoeducational courses. Able to provide supervision and undertake appraisals for PWP workforce, including trainee PWP's. Demonstrates high standards in written communication Extensive experience of working in Primary Care Services Significant experience of working in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes

Desirable

Has had supervision training Has had training and experience of undertaking appraisals

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