Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Led by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and in partnership with YMCA Downslink and Southdown, Brighton and Hove Wellbeing Service provides a community-based range of evidence based therapeutic and clinical interventions to support children, young people and adults with mild to moderate mental health needs. Our service is based in the community and located primarily within SPFT venues and GP Practices. We receive referrals from a number of routes including self-referrals and by General Practitioners, working closely with community and secondary care Mental Health services.

We are recruiting a Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join our NHS Talking Therapies Service.

As an NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression service (NHS TT) we offer a full range of NHS TT compliant therapies and job roles. As a service we support people presenting with mild to moderate anxiety disorders and depression.

The PWP role involves offering CBT informed guided self-help, working with clients via the telephone, using online platforms (including silvercloud) and delivering psychoeducational courses.

Requirements

In order for you to apply for this role You will need a postgraduate certificate in Low Intensity Psychological Therapies, experience delivering PWP interventions within an NHS TT service, excellent team skills and proven ability to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.

What we offer

As a Mental Health Trust Sussex Partnership Places a Huge Focus On The Wellbeing Of Our Staff, As Well As Ensuring Our Reward Packages Reflect The Immensely Important Work They Do. We Can Offer You

• The opportunity to work in a new and exciting collaboration and to help us forge our path
• Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes, run by our internal wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
• All the autonomy and responsibility you need to manage your caseload
• Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
• A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC
  
  

Brighton & Hove

Regularly taking the top spot(s) in many ‘best place to live’ surveys, Brighton and Hove offers a relaxed seaside atmosphere with a huge array of shops and entertainment to keep you busy. Whether you enjoy a spot of retail therapy, or a stroll along a beautiful coastline, you will find yourself well catered for. With trains direct to London taking only 1 hour and the south downs national park on your doorstep, we really do have the best of both worlds.

If you want to join an innovative and exciting NHS TT service in the vibrant and diverse seaside City of Brighton & Hove, then we would love to hear from you!

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa Halsey Job title: Service Manager Email address: [email protected]