The Wellbeing service in Hertfordshire is the long established local IAPT provider, within Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. We are a very successful IAPT service, always keeping waiting times low, and achieving consistently high recovery rates .

To do this we work very hard at supporting our staff to give of their best, addressing individual need, professional development needs, providing flexible working arrangements, consistent clinical and managerial supervision and excellent CPD. For this post you need to be BABCP accredited or eligible and willing to gain accreditation.

Main duties of the job

We expect our staff to reward this with professionalism, a conscientious relationship with their work and colleagues, and an evident desire to develop and be the best therapist that they can be.

Feedback from our staff will confirm that we have a great team ethos, and a supportive culture.

If you'd like to join us as a Qualified PWP, please get in touch. We have full time permanent posts in our team of around 30 other PWPs and trainee PWPs across Hertfordshire.

Our step 3 team is around the same size and progression from one to the other is frequently seen where our PWP staff have ambitions to train at step 3. These two staff groups are seamlessly integrated into a single large team. If you are interested in full/ part time hours and flexible working please apply.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on...

Job description Job responsibilities

For full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• IAPT Post Graduate Certificate in Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Interventions

Experience Essential

• Evidence of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem
• Experience of working in Primary Care Services
• Proven Track record of working in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
• Ability to manage own caseload and time
• Demonstrates high standards in written communication
• Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
• Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health
• Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems

Desirable

• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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