Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 11 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 pa pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 11 May 2024 |
| Location: | Burnley, BB12 6QH |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6223237/351-PEN827-EB |
Summary
Location:
Burnley Talking Therapies
The NHS Talking Therapies Service (as part of Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust) offer this great opportunity to work as a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.
We are currently recruiting for 1 position in the Burnley Talking Therapies Team and this role is offered on a part time permanent basis for 22.5hrs.
You will be supervising a team of dynamic and committed qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs) and trainees as well as providing leadership to those staff in terms of performance and well-being.
You must be a qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner who can provide evidence of consolidated post qualification experience working within the PWP role including PWP registration with BABCP or BPS.
For more information, please contact us on the details provided
To provide a high quality Talking Therapies service to adults with mild to moderate mental health problems including those with a degree of complexity.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of Trust and local policies and procedure.
To provide high quality clinical supervision and mentoring to PWPs including trainees supported by the regular integration of caseload management principles within clinical supervision provision.
To deliver and support the delivery of an IAPT service in accordance with NICE guidelines, to meet key performance indicators and agreed activity levels.
To provide advice and consultation on clients’ care, to other colleagues and non-professional carers.
To utilise research skills to support audit, service development and research within the areas served by the team.
To work with and support the team lead and Service Manager in actively managing waiting lists.
To promote wellbeing and social inclusion.
To work flexibly and in accordance with service demands.
To work to the agreed number of clinical contacts per week as set by the Team Lead.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Apr 2024