Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner inCheltenham inCheltenham PUBLISHED MON 25 NOV 2024

The Cheltenham & North Cotswolds NHS Talking Therapies team has an exciting opportunity for the right candidate who is a highly motivated and passionate person, who can work in a fast paced environment and has the desire to commit to the career of a Senior PWP.

The role of the Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) team leader will involve delivering coordination and supervision of PWP's within the NHS Gloucestershire Talking Therapy (IAPT) service North Team, providing caseload and clinical skills supervision to trainee and qualified PWP's. The role will be multi-faceted and will involve consultation, education, training and supervision as well as carrying a reduced clinical caseload. You will be required to contribute to the smooth running of all aspects of the service where the PWP role has an influence, ensuring that assessments and ongoing treatment are delivered at a high-quality level and consistent with operational standards.

Potential candidates will hold a Post Graduate Certificate (PG Cert) for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies for a minimum of 2 years, and will have had previous experience of working with individuals experiencing mental health difficulties within Primary Care Services. You must be prepared to undertake further training in delivering supervision if you do not hold this qualification. This post requires a high level of communication skills, including effective liaison with key staff both within service and the wider organisation and NHS. The post holder must be able to demonstrate the ability to work under pressure within a new role in a developing service.

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Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the NationalPreceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHSEngland. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates,Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to PracticePractitioners. In addition to the programme we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrollingand completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module "Preceptorship for Healthcare(AP7026).