Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP)NHS

Job summary

Do you have the experience to complete Talking Therapies assessments and treatments, carrying a large caseload of clients, ensuring quality notes and a high standard of client care?

Do you have the knowledge to liaise with a range of mental health and statutory services, to ensure the needs of our service users are met?

Do you have the skills to promote our service to local communities and other professionals?

Main duties of the job

In this role you'll manage a case load of people accessing Talking Therapies, providing low intensity interventions, drawing from CBT theories and techniques. This will involve working with people with long term physical health conditions.

During this role, you may work with people face to face, cover the phone or in a group setting or via other means. This means that you will be able to group interventions. This means you will be able to deliver a range of evidence based 1 - 2 - 1 or group interventions. You will also support events in the community to help generate referrals.

Job description

Main duties

• To use a range of evidence-based tools and techniques for assessments, goals and motivating people
• To manage a varied caseload of people
• To work with groups of people to help them achieve their goals
• To collate and analyse performance data as necessary
• To develop effective relationships with a range of external organisations and agencies
• To promote the service to communities and agencies as appropriate
• To keep accurate and up-to-date client records
• To ensure quality standards are adhered to and met and that audits are passed
• To ensure all statutory responsibilities are followed and reported as required
• Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to SHS and any relevant regulation (such as the BABCP Code of Ethics) and keep up to date on new recommendations and guidelines set by the department of health (such as the NHS plan, National Service Framework and National Institute for Clinical Excellence).

About us

The Big Life Groups mission is to fight for equity in health, in wealth and in life. We are a social business delivering a range of services across the North of England, covering everything from mental and physical health, addiction and criminal justice, to housing, education, family support and much more. What links them is how we work The Big Life Way.

We always stand shoulder-to-shoulder with people, working with them on the things that matter most to them. Everything we do is designed and informed by the needs, priorities and strengths of people and communities.

If you're looking for more than a job if you want to be part of a team that's bold, creative and relentlessly committed to equity then Big Life could be the place for you.