Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Part Time

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
The Forward Trust

Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Location: HMP The Mount

Salary: £28,407 per annum

It is an exciting time at Forward with the recent addition of providing mental health IAPT services in prisons across Hertfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. For more than 25 years, Forward have been working with people building positive and productive lives, whatever their past. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

What you will be doing

As a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) a large part of your role will be to assess a service user’s suitability for evidence based psychological interventions for those presenting with common mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. You will be delivering a wide range of low-level psychological step 2 interventions to adults on an individual face-to-face basis or through facilitating therapeutic groups.

The successful candidate will be contributing to team performance and delivery of a responsive, high-quality service in line with IAPT requirements. You will actively participate in both Case management and line management supervision; they will also be supporting the service to ensure quality standards are met.

• Build strong relationships with colleagues in the unit and make full use of the support offered from Forward Trust colleagues both local, regional and central.
• Develop and maintain relationships with other agencies within the prison by attending weekly and monthly multi-disciplinary meetings.
• Maintain effective case load management, making sure that clients are prioritised appropriately and seen in a timely manner, ongoing care and treatment is reviewed in close liaison with other agencies.
• Create and maintain effective Case management and actively participate in clinical supervision.
• Effectively assess for and respond to Risk within both prison and Forward Trust policy.
• Ensure case notes are completed to the standards set

Other

• Take on other reasonable tasks and responsibilities as deemed appropriate by the Service
• Some flexibility of delivery may be required within the role. This may include additional shifts or supporting another service temporarily.

What we are looking for

• A Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) qualification and experience of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) model.
• Experience of undertaking CBT assessments and delivering CBT and low intensity interventions.
• Working with people with mental health difficulties and people in primary care.

What we offer

Alongside Simply Health coverage, and a contributory pension scheme to assist employees with their general health and well-being. We offer:

• Season Ticket Loan Scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 3 x wellbeing days in addition to annual leave allowance
• Simply Health scheme
• Therapy allowance (£90 per month for frontline staff)
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays.
• Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter.
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary).
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria).

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please click apply where you will be redirected to their website to complete your application.