Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - Band 5NHS

Job summary

Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies are looking to recruit full-time, enthusiastic and motivated Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to join our dynamic and innovative service.

Based in East London we have provided psychological therapy services to general practice and the local community for over 30 years. We are a stepped care service offering evidence based interventions at Steps 2 and 3. Our team consists of Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, Cognitive Behaviour Therapists and Clinical & Counselling Psychologists. As a service, we actively encourage different theoretical interests and offer specialist areas of development such as LTC/Eating Disorders/Perinatal.

Main duties of the job

This post involves:

• Providing Low Intensity interventions from a range of CBT based self-management interventions for clients with mild to moderate anxiety and depression
• Working with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary
• Involvement in Group and Community Engagement work

We have a firm commitment to CPD and offer high quality supervision as well as the opportunity to participate in team initiatives. The team works closely with a variety of trained professionals across a range of therapeutic orientations including, DIT, Systemic, IPT, CBT and Psychodynamic.

We have always been a proactive and forward looking service, with a strong commitment to meeting the needs of the diverse community in which we are located and we particularly welcome applicants with fluency in Sylheti.

Job description

It is expected that PWPs will have a number of main roles, which include the following.

Planning, managing, and implementing therapeutic interventions utilising a facilitated self-help approach.

Face to face work with service users with common mental health problems such as anxiety, anger management and depression across service sites and GP surgeries.

• Telephone Low Intensity work with service users.
• Telephone liaison with other professionals to expedite signposting to other service where appropriate.
• Integrated working with other elements of the services provided by THTT.
• Work alongside practice teams including liaison with service users and carers, audit activity, and advice and support to GPs and practice staff.
• Networking with the wider health and social care system.
• Supporting and educating service users regarding medication regimes
• Mental health promotion
• To work with people from a diverse backgrounds in a culturally sensitive manner.
• Assist service users to identify and effectively manage their emotional distress and psychological disturbance.
• To organise and manage a substantial caseload of active cases, with workers completing treatment for 250 patients per year, and with an expectation of a minimum of 25 hours clinical contact per week for 1.0 WTE.
• To provide information about other local services relevant to the clients needs and or cultural preferences.
• To support and facilitate the use of the computerised cognitive behavioural therapy service and other media to support delivery of guided self-help packages of care as approved in NICE guidelines
• To attend training appropriate to the role
• Expected to innovate and be creative in terms of service delivery.
• Expected to consolidate learning from PWP Training,

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.