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Welcome! Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin NHS Talking Therapies is a busy caring team consisting of Administration staff, PWPs, CBT Practitioners, and Counsellors.
Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners are employed on one-year fixed term training contract that is high pressured, involving a clinical placement during which you will manage a high-volume caseload of low intensity service users. You will additionally undertake the Postgraduate Certificate at Aston University, meeting academic deadlines. In addition to clinical contact, the role will include data collection, data management, analysis and note writing. Trainees are expected to progress to work with a high degree of autonomy, with high volume caseloads including individual and group work; this may include telephone sessions, video consultation, and face-to-face clinical work.
On successful completion on the course a permanent contract would be offered.
If you are a highly organised and motivated individual with a commitment to the NHS and patient care, then we would welcome your application to study for the professional role of Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner. Successful candidates will be trained to deliver Low Intensity Psychological Interventions, which are the cornerstone of NHS Talking Therapies Services (formally known as IAPT).
Main duties of the job
* Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
* Assess and support people with a common mental health problem in the self-management of their recovery.
* Undertake patient‑centred assessments to identify areas where the person wishes to see change and or recovery and makes an accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
* Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary or step‑up the person’s treatment to high intensity psychological therapy.
* Provide a range of information and support for evidence based high-volume low‑intensity psychological treatments. This may include guided self‑help computerised CBT, information about pharmacological treatments. This work may be face to face, telephone or via other media.
* Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary.
* Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
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