Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

There is a significant clinical supervision and management component to this post, providing an opportunity for further development of these skills.

The post-holder will also provide high volume low intensity CBT interventions, face to face, by telephone or online, including cCBT.

The post affords the opportunity for involvement in, and contribution to service development, and for pursuing special interests including community based projects, workshops and groups.

See Job Description for more details.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

• Qualification from PWP training course e.g. Post Graduate Diploma in Low Intensity CBT Interventions.

Desirable criteria

• IAPT PWP Supervision Training.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience working as a PWP in an IAPT service, including developing and facilitating workshops and groups.s
• Experience of staff mentoring, service development and/or training
• Experience of screening and assessing a broad spectrum of mental health issues.

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience as a senior PWP and/or delivering case management/supervision.
• Expeience working in the local community.

Skills and competencies

Essential criteria

• Significant skills in the provision of the broad range of Low Intensity CBT interventions.
• Demonstrate high levels of organisational ability and demonstrable skills in record keeping and case management
• Demonstrate high standards of written and verbal skills, including telephone skills and computer literacy.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates a sound knowledge of depression and anxiety and how this may present in primary care.
• Demonstrates a sound knowledge of IAPT services' outcome measures and their use for commissioning, clinical and audit purposes.
• Knowledge of working with diversity and of working with black and ethnic minority groups.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of medication use in Depression and Anxiety and other common mental health problems,

Other requirements

Essential criteria

• High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
• Ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation.

Desirable criteria

• Fluent in languages other than English

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• 334-LEW-5160361 JD (PDF, 280.3KB)
• SLaM Staff Benefits (PDF, 1.1MB)