Job vacancy: Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP), Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Warrington

Job summary

Main area: Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP)
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref: 350-TWSS6317730

Employer: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Hollins Park Hospital (OHWB Department)
Town: Warrington
Salary: £28,407 - £34,581 None
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/08/2024 23:59

Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP)

Band 5

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for the full description of duties and responsibilities relevant for this role.

Person specification

KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE:

Essential criteria

Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in an occupational health setting and how this may differ from primary care.
Proven relevant experience of working with people with common mental health problems.
Ability to manage own workload and time.
Ability to demonstrate high standards in written communication.
Able to write clear reports and letters.
Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
Computer literate
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills.
Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients

Desirable criteria

Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health.
Knowledge of self-help materials for managing common mental health problems.
Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
Proven relevant experience of working in Primary Care Services or other relevant settings.
Proven relevant experience of working in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.
Proven relevant experience of working in the local community or relevant experience in other areas.
Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post

VALUES

Essential criteria

Continuous Improvement
Accountability
Respectfulness
Enthusiasm
Support
High professional standards
Responsive to service user
Engaging leadership style
Strong customer service belief
Transparency and honesty
Discreet
Change oriented

SKILLS

Essential criteria

Ability to evaluate and integrate training into practice.
Computer literate
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills
High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
Advanced communication skill
Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationship
Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
Ability to work under pressure.
Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
Ability to manage own workload and time.
Ability to demonstrate high standards in written communication.
Able to write clear reports and letters
Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients

Desirable criteria

Car driver and / or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the Liverpool area
Fluent in community languages other than English

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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Claire Ingham
Job title: Senior Psychotherapist
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01925 664010

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Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP)

Band 5

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