Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join the IAPT team on a full time, permanent basis.

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.

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.

Main duties of the job

• Hold a qualification (Post grad dip/cert) in Low intensity working or Primary Care Mental Health work
• Have at least one-year post qualification experience
• Offer evidence-based practice in guided self-help, CBT and Step 2 treatment groups
• Develop and support Qualified &Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners
• Provide line management, case management and clinical supervision to Trainee and Qualified PWPs in the service

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.

Job responsibilities
Given the management and supervision components to the post, we are looking for qualified PWPs/Graduate Mental Health workers with at least one-year post qualification experience who are enthusiastic and excited by the development of low intensity services to share their interest and passion, and to develop these qualities and skills in others.

The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and may be called upon to work in various community settings (including GP surgeries and other, 3rd sector, settings) and psychological treatment centers.

The post holder will line manage trainee low intensity workers and case manage IAPT Low intensity workers under the direction of the Step 2 Lead. There will also be an expectation to provide clinical supervision to trainee and locum PWPs in the service.

Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential

• IAPT Low intensity worker/ psychological wellbeing practitioner qualification Or A related degree, e.g. Psychology with either a Post Graduate Cert/Dip in Mental Health or Equivalent

Experience
Essential

• Minimum of 1-year post qualification experience in offering and delivering the range of evidence-based IAPT low intensity interventions such as computerised CBT and guided self-help and facilitation of psycho-education and treatment groups.
• Experience in receiving and/or offering IAPT case management to PWPs
• Significant experience of assessing and working with people with common mental health problems
• Experiencing of assessing and managing risk to self and safeguarding concerns in a primary care mental health setting.2
• Experience of delivering training to a range of professionals
• Experience of working within an IAPT service

Knowledge and Skills
Essential

• Knowledge of Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Interventions
• Knowledge of depression and different anxiety disorders
• Understanding of main medications used and their side effects in treatment of anxiety and depression
• Knowledge of outcome measures and their use in clinical and audit purposes
• Understand the concept of stepped care model and how this is implemented in IAPT services

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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