Job summary
Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - Band 6
Salary is dependant on experience
£40,701 - £48,054 Inc HCAS per annum pro rata
Fixed term: 9 months - Full time 37.5 hours per week
We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join our close-knit team in Bromley. This role is based in the Talk Together Bromley IAPT Service and aims to deliver an IAPT service to the Post Covid Community Pathway within Bromley and represents an opportunity for an experienced Graduate Mental Health Workers or PWP, who is committed to this model, to move to develop their career within low-intensity treatments.
There is potential for this contract to be extended dependent on funding/commissioning.
Proposed Interview date week commencing 27th May 2024
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will
- Hold a qualification (Post grad dip/cert) in Low intensity working or Primary Care Mental Health work,
- Have the ability to offer evidence-based practice in facilitated self-help and group work
- Develop, support and train innovative practice to Trainee & Qualified PWP's and to Primary Care colleagues, such as health visitors and to colleagues in statutory and non-statutory organisations.
In addition, there is a significant case management and clinical supervision component to the post and this is an opportunity for a qualified and experienced PWP who is enthusiastic and excited by the development of low intensity services to share their interest and passion, and to develop these qualities and skills in others.
The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and may be called upon to work in various settings (including primary care surgeries and 3rd sector settings).
The post holder will work within the Post Covid Community Pathway within Bromley which forms part of the wider borough wide provision for people with Post Covid Syndrome.
About us
Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. Being born from NHS Bromley's community provider unit we have been providing community services to the people of Bromley for many years and we have a wealth of experience.
Bromley Healthcare is a great place to work. The unique way we deliver services and offer everyone who works here a voice, means that your career with us will be rewarding.
Social Enterprises are a fairly new and exciting way to deliver healthcare, offering many of the traditional advantages of the NHS (such as excellent training and development) with the freedom for innovation by being able to reinvest any surpluses we make into the community.
Salary is dependant on NHS experience and current banding/pay point, applicants from outside the NHS will receive the start point of the salary scale in line with NHS terms & conditions.
Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, access to EAP, high street discounts, Blue Light Card eligibility, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme and we are constantly looking to expand our staff benefits.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide assessment and low intensity interventions eg psycho-educational interventions, Guided Self Help in a workshop setting both 1:1 and in group settings, face to face and virtually and cCBT to patients registered with GP practices/health centres in the Borough of Bromley, drawing from CBT theories and techniques.
- Provide a service that is comprehensive and accessible to a broad range of patients who have common mental health problems and who are over 18 years of age with a diagnosis of Post Covid Syndrome.
- To provide a service that is equitable and non-discriminatory in terms of age, gender, ethnicity and disability.
- Support GPs and other primary care workers in making appropriate referrals and in carrying out the mental health aspects of their own roles.
- 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.
- Develop a knowledge of the locality and its services and facilities, particularly in relation to mental health issues.
- Provide a service that is flexible, as far as possible, to meet the demands of the client.
- 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 (including requests for mental health act assessments and referrals to relevant secondary care services).
10. Attend Weekly Post Covid Multi-Disciplinary Meetings in order to discuss patients on the caseload and potential needs and referrals to ensure correct pathway management.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A degree related to mental health e.g., psychology, and a PWP qualification, or equivalent.
- Training in risk assessment
- Registered practitioner with BPS or BABCP
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- Training in CBT
- A qualification or substantial experience in Professional Supervision
Specific Skills
Essential
- The capacity to adapt core psychological approaches to the primary care culture, incorporating a range of skills to meet a broad spectrum of presenting issues.
- Clinical risk assessment.
- Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to communicate clearly and persuasively, both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to, liaise and network with a wide range of organisations and members of the public
- Ability to carry out a range of evaluation and monitoring techniques
- Able to work through interpreters
Desirable
- Ability to carry out a range of evaluation and monitoring techniques.
- Able to work through interpreters
- Fluent in languages other than English
Experience
Essential
- Experience of supervising others within a therapy setting.
- Significant experience of working with people with common mental health problems.
- Ability to demonstrate a range of post-qualifying experience (min 1 year) in offering and delivering the range of evidence-based IAPT low intensity interventions such as guided self-help and group psychoeducation
- Consolidated and reflective supervised post-qualifying experience in a community setting
- Experience of working with clients in a primary care setting.
- Experience of working with suicidal clients and of risk management
- Experience of working within the IAPT culture
Desirable
- Experience in drug/alcohol management.
- Experience of dealing with clients whose children are subject to Child Protection legislation.
- Experience of coworking with general nurses and health visitors in a Primary Care setting.
- Experience of screening, assessing and working with a wide spectrum of mental health issues and working with people with moderate common mental health problems.
- Experience of audit and research.
- Experience of and ability to provide mentor/supervisor role
Information Technology
Essential
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Applications
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Bromley Healthcare CIC
Address
Caritas House
Tregony Road
Orpington
BR6 9XA