Description
Wandsworth Talking Therapies is a primary care mental health and wellbeing service which aims to provide support to people living within Wandsworth or those with a Wandsworth G.P. As a service, we aim to deliver a range of evidence-based psychological interventions to people with common mental health problems within a stepped care model.
We are looking for a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join our successful and dynamic NHS Talking Therapies service. 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.
Main duties of the job
- 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-based CBT principles
- Deliver a minimum of 24 booked and 20 completed clinical contact hours per week
- Formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of patients' mental health problems
- Make appropriate use of specialist assessments of patients' mental health
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients
- Contribute to the development of new and existing group CBT programmes for patients with anxiety disorders and/or depression
- Communicate effectively with patients and colleagues
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service
- Keep coherent records of all clinical activity
- Work closely with other members of the team to maintain a stepped care approach
- Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Career development
- Variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment
Person Specification
- Qualification from an accredited PWP/Low Intensity Training Course
- Registration with the BABCP or in the process of gaining registration
- Extensive experience of working in primary care or IAPT services
- Experience of working towards clinical and operational performance targets
- Good understanding of anxiety and depression
- Skills in the assessment and Step 2 CBT treatment of patients with depression and anxiety disorders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills