Full job description
We are recruiting for qualified Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to join the East Sussex NHS Talking Therapies service who has a desire to make a difference and want to further their knowledge, skill and experience in a supportive and progressive environment.
Health in Mind is an NHS Talking Therapies service providing evidence-based treatments for people with depression and/or a range of anxiety-based difficulties within primary care. Please see our website for further information on https://www.healthinmind.org.uk/ .
We have 5 vacancies which includes 3 permanent positions and 2 fixed term- 1 year contracts. We will consider applications from those that wish to work flexibly and are open to discussions around remote and home working. We cover the whole of East Sussex (with the exception of Brighton and Hove) and the successful applicant will be assigned to a more specific geographical locality upon appointment.
Health in Mind is a large primary care mental health service that serves the people of East Sussex, with the exception of Brighton and Hove. You will be working within a defined geographical area (to be determined upon appointment), delivering telephone or Online video appointments as well as some face to face appointments where needed, although flexibility in appointment types can be discussed at interview.
As a Senior PWP practitioner in Health in Mind you will be supporting the PWP Team Lead with development and implementation of service improvement plans and performance monitoring. You will also be responsible for the clinical supervision and case management of both trainee and qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners. You will receive support from our Senior Clinicians and your team lead in the form of case management and clinical supervision
The client's experience of our service is very important to us. We work towards supporting clients in their recovery by offering evidence-based therapy with therapists who receive regular and supportive supervision and regular CPD. We promote service user involvement. Health in Mind has a Service User Steering Group which provides valuable input to our service design and delivery. We care about our staff. We have a staff-wellbeing-champions team, and are committed to staff engagement. We know that for our clinicians to do a good job they need to feel supported. There is opportunity for varied and flexible working patterns and home working and working hours can be discussed in the interview. We are keen for our clinicians to grow. We aim to offer staff individual appraisals with the opportunity to become involved in a range of activities, such as group-based interventions, teaching, supervision and service development
To provide case management and clinical supervision to Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners
To maintain high professional standards and attend clinical and managerial supervision
To support the PWP Team Lead in managing the waiting lists and systems for Step 2 assessments and interventions.
To ensure accurate maintenance of clinical records and outcome measures on the clinical data system, and support staff in maintaining accurate records.
To ensure patient satisfaction questionnaires and service reviews are completed
To support the implementation of step care model of delivery of psychological interventions to clients within a primary care setting in line with NICE guidelines.
To work with the PWP Lead in the ongoing development and support of best practice and innovation within the Step 2 Team.
To provide high volume low intensity short term treatments in accordance with the TTAD model
To undertake initial assessments and gather sufficient information to assess risk /complexity of clients' needs, including drug and alcohol use, current and past medical psychiatric history, and biosocial aspects of the clients situation, making onward referral as necessary..
To be responsible for ensuring own and others clinical practice complies with Data Protection / Confidentiality / Caldicott Principles
To manage a balanced workload of individual therapy for clients with the management and
leadership roles of this post.