Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team at North Tyneside Talking Therapies as a Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP).
North Tyneside Talking Therapies is recognised for its high-quality therapeutic delivery and our patients experience significant improvements which is demonstrated in our performance outcomes. We pride ourselves on adopting a compassionate culture and have collective leadership approach. Our staff are our biggest asset, their dedication is inspiring, and we value and support them greatly.
North Tyneside Talking Therapies service currently operates Monday- Friday covering some evening work.
Full Time - 37.5 hours per week.
x2 posts available
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
As a Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP), you will engage in academic study and work-based practice to deliver high quality evidence-based psychological interventions for people with common mental health difficulties (depression and anxiety disorders). Interventions can be delivered via face to face, telephone and video consultations, both on an individual basis and in group formats. The role is a deliberately varied one which has a balance between undertaking assessments and holding a clinical caseload. All our PWP’s are involved in delivering Guided Self Help, Psychoeducation Courses and Computerised programmes. You will be expected to balance the demands of academic study alongside clinical with full support from the service and education provider through thorough and robust clinical supervision, peer and managerial support.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sharnna Stevens Job title: Assistant Operational Team Manager Email address: sharnna.stevens@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0191 295 2775
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