Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

You will offer triage assessments and low intensity interventions to people with common mental health problems (depression and anxiety disorders). You will provide brief telephone-based triage assessments as well as NICE-supported low intensity treatments such as guided self-help and CBT-based psycho-educational courses. You will receive regular clinical supervision from either a Senior PWP or clinical/counselling psychologist/CBT therapist working within the service.

You will be based at our office in Tooting Broadway with opportunities to work remotely from home as well offering a combination of face to face, telephone and digital online web camera-based programmes. The service offers evening appointments, so flexible working is required.

To provide comprehensive triage assessments and low intensity therapeutic services for adult patients for common mental health problems referred to the service based on sound, evidence[1]based CBT principles, working within the context of the agreed policies and procedures of the service.

To deliver a minimum of 24 booked and 20 completed clinical contact hours per week.

To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of patients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients problems, and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of treatment efficacy.

To make appropriate use of specialist assessments of patients mental health, including structured and semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, rating scales and guided inquiry method

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice on psychological aspects of risk assessment, including the risk of self-harm.

To contribute to the development of new and existing group CBT programmes for patients with anxiety disorders and/or depression.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress during their treatment within the Wandsworth Talking Therapies service.

To complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.

To keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols and use these records and clinical outcome data in clinical decision making.

To work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.

To assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process.

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We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Training & Qualifications

Essential: - Qualification from an accredited PWP/Low Intensity Training Course; - Registration with the BABCP or in the process of gaining registration

Experience

Essential: - Extensive experience of working in primary care or IAPT services; - Experience of working towards clinical and operational performance targets

Desirable: - Experience of working in the local community

Knowledge & Skills