Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Job Overview

We are recruiting for full-time permanent posts for qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner in Harrow Talking Therapies. We may also consider part-time (4 days).

We’re looking for enthusiastic and motivated qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to join our team at Harrow NHS Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT service). We are a large and well-established service based in a diverse Borough. Our service provides low and high intensity therapies at Step 2 and Step 3, alongside our Step 3 counselling service.

We are looking for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, who are adaptable, enjoy challenges and diversity and demonstrate an enthusiasm for primary care work. We particularly welcome applicants who speak other languages and who have enthusiasm for and experience of working with diversity.

We currently have a 20/80 split of F2F and remote appointments, and so can offer very generous hybrid working and flexible working options. We can also be flexible with your working hours and you will receive regular supervision, appraisal and opportunities to develop as a practitioner.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

You will be working within a stepped care model, providing assessments and delivering evidence based low intensity interventions for people with common mental health problems. Assessments and interventions may be delivered via digital platform (Teams), face to face or via the telephone. You would also be expected to deliver psycho educational workshops and become involved in working within the local community and establishing links with voluntary service organisations to promote the service.

You will receive regular clinical supervision and support from a qualified therapist and work closely with other clinical practitioners within the team. The Harrow Talking Therapies service has close links with other Talking Therapy teams in CNWL, as well as wider links with other mental health teams within Harrow. We have a strong tradition of supporting staff development and further progression onto higher training.

The team hub is based at 12-14 Station Road, Harrow, HA1 2SL
and serves the catchment area of the London Borough of Harrow.

The team consistently meets its access and recovery targets and undertakes further projects and service innovation work to meet new demands and needs of the local population. There are clear and well defined systems for triaging and screening of incoming referrals, allocation of clients to step 2 and step 3, management of waiting lists and stepping up and stepping down clients as appropriate.

We operate a generous agile working policy where staff combine remote working and being on-site to deliver face-to-face appointments and other service commitments that require a hub-based presence. The post-holder will work full-time hours and may be required to work at any times between 8am and 8pm on weekdays including an evening clinic as required by the service. Wellbeing is important within our service and we are a collaborative and tight knit team.

We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred care. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. With every new employee we are hoping to find future leaders and we’ll support you with opportunities to develop your career.

• Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service and develop care package programmes.
• Make protocols based assessments of risk to self and others and respond to client risk as appropriate.
• Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, refers unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary or steps-up the person’s treatment to other forms of psychological therapy or…