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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - Oxford
Accepting applications until: 04-Aug-2024 08:00
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 04-Aug-2024 08:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Abell House
- Address
- Horspath Driftway
- Town
- Oxford
- Postcode
- OX3 7JH
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Oxfordshire Talking Therapies
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Job overview
Oxfordshire Talking Therapies (OTT) are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) to take the next step in their career and into a supervisory role. We would also welcome applications from existing Senior PWP's who may want to develop further in a supportive and diverse team. We will support you to develop your leadership skills to support your staff in both clinical supervision and line management.
OTT is a nationally recognized, high-performing and innovative service supporting adults to manage their common mental health difficulties, such as anxiety/depression. We are based in the city of Oxford, surrounded by Oxfordshire's stunning countryside.
This is an excellent opportunity to join Oxford Health: a large and innovative NHS Foundation trust, with a strong track record for supporting the development of psychological therapy services. The Trust has two Talking Therapy services, a range of specialist psychological therapy services and employs over 500 psychological therapists and hosts the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research and the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre.
We are also involved in research. The service benefits from being a member of the Oxford Academic Health Sciences Network – Anxiety and Depression Network led by Professor David Clark. We are an exciting, innovative and successful service to work for.
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This role involves facilitating individual case management supervision of PWPs to support in their development and learning, delivering clinical skills supervision and line managing trainee and/or qualified PWPs.
As a SPWP you will contribute to the effective day to day running of the Step2 team including service development, recruitment and training of staff.
The post-holder will also offer evidence-based practice in Guided Self-help (Telephone, Digital or Face to Face) and contribute to the Psycho-educational Courses programme, working with people with common mental health problems. You will also be involved in other workstreams or projects such as digital interventions and increasing access for people with under represented groups.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Your wellbeing is a top priority. We have an award winning, wellbeing team within the service and work hard to ensure that a supportive, collaborative and productive culture is in place. We offer robust supervision from skilled supervisors/managers and ongoing Continuing Professional Development including external training.
The service has around 200 staff including Psychological Therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and staff from our partnership organisations. A team of clinical supervisors and managers support staff to deliver the service effectively and safely.
Qualified PWPs are expected to comply with the national requirement effective from 10th June 2022, for PWP registration with the British Psychological Society (BPS) or the British Association of Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). Registration must be maintained annually, at the practitioner’s expense. Please ensure you complete the section within this application form asking for your PIN. If you are awaiting confirmation of registration, please provide evidence of your submission for registration. Successful candidates who have not completed the approval process will be required to practice at a training grade (Band 4), and will be paid accordingly, until such time as the registration is confirmed.
In this role, your main responsibilities will be to carry out screening calls and deliver low intensity intervention, offer line management and Case Management Supervision to other trainee and qualified PWPs, focus on the quality of interventions ensuring adherence to the evidence base, to stay up to date with clinical and policy changes and support others to do the same and to contribute to the development of the service.
Please see JD for further information.
If you have any questions or queries about the role, please contact Rachel Balster on [email protected] .
*Please note this vacancy may close early if sufficient applications are received*
- All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
- Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications - Academic/Professional
Essential criteria
- Post-Graduate Certificate in Evidence Based Psychological Treatments (IAPT pathway).
- PWP Registration with the British Psychological Society (BPS) or the British Association of Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
- To have completed the IAPT Accredited PWP Supervisor Training and supervised staff
Desirable criteria
- To have completed or be willing to attend IAPT LTC/PPS top up training.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-qualification experience as a PWP in an IAPT service
- Experience of mentoring other staff, through case management supervision, induction, peer supervision, etc.
- Experience of handling safeguarding concerns.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A clear understanding of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies IAPT programme; Key Performance Indicators KPI’s and related guidance/legislation
Skills & Communication
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to deliver the full range of Low Intensity interventions and demonstrate consistent recovery rates above the 50% minimum IAPT target.
- Skills in using IAPT database such as PCMIS or IAPTUS. Skill in using Microsoft Word / Outlook / Excel / PowerPoint
- Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
Ability to travel
Essential criteria
- Ability & willingness to travel between sites and to regional meetings
- To work flexibly within and outside office hours
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Balster
- Job title
- Step 2 Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 901222
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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