Description
Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies are looking to recruit full-time, enthusiastic and motivated Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to join our dynamic 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.
Main duties of the job
- 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
Job responsibilities
- 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 services 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 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 client's needs and/or cultural preferences
- To support and facilitate the use of the computerized 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
Person Specification
- Education/Qualification/Training:
+ IAPT PWP Training or Equivalent + BABCP Accreditations as a PWP
- Experience:
+ Experience of working in an IAPT service + Experience of working with people presenting with mental health difficulties such as anxiety and depression + Experience in delivering low-intensity interventions such as guided self-help + Experience of conducting risk assessment and developing risk management plans
- Knowledge and Skills:
+ Ability to carry out information gathering assessments inclusive of thorough risk assessments + Ability to manage high-volume caseload + Ability to utilise clinical and case management supervision effectively + Ability to keep clear and concise clinical records + 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