Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Title: Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Location: HMP Humber, Everthorpe, HU15 2JZ

Salary (pro rata): £27,055 to £32,934 per annum depending on experience (Agenda for Change Band 5)

Total hours per week: 37.5hrs per week between Monday to Friday during core business hours; however, some flexibility is required depending on service need.

Rethink Mental Illness is a charity that believes a better life is possible for people affected by mental illness. For more than 40 years we have brought people together to support each other. We run services and support groups that change people’s lives, and we challenge attitudes about mental illness

Rethink Mental Illness are excited to be setting up a new IAPT service in HMP Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

This service will see the implementation of a stepped care model into HMP Hull, allowing residents to access evidence based, effective care comparative to what is offer in the community.

This unique opportunity will allow the successful Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to help design, build, mould and implement a brand-new model, tailored to the needs of the individuals in their care. The PWP will work as part of a mental health team within the Prison to provide high volume, low intensity interventions which will be a range of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based self-management interventions, for clients with mild to moderate anxiety and depression. This includes providing guided self-help in both 1:1 and group formats, in line with the current Step 2 IAPT guidelines.

Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners carry out all clinical work face to face within the prison environment.

As a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, you will:

• Provide rapid screening and assessment, informed by knowledge of the spectrum of mental health needs and risk factors.
• Provide assessment and Low intensity interventions e.g., psycho-educational interventions, Guided Self Help, drawing from CBT theories and techniques
• Manage a high volume, low intensity caseload.
• Identify and develop prisoners to become trained Peer Mentors who will support first night reception centres, induction meetings, co-facilitate group sessions with PWPs and offer general peer support and awareness raising to prisoners.
• Work as part of an integrated mental health team, with a range of other mental health professionals to ensure the most appropriate care is provided to patient

To be considered for the role, you will demonstrate:

• Successful completion of an academic course of study in line with the IAPT Low Intensity National Programme and qualified as a PWP, e.g., Post Grad Diploma in Psychological Therapies.
• Current accreditation status with either BABCP or BPS as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
• Post-qualification experience in offering and delivering the full range of evidence based IAPT low intensity interventions at Step 2.
• Evidence of working within a stepped care service with people who have experienced a mental health problem delivering and demonstrating recovery outcomes.
• Knowledge of assessment procedures, screening, referral, record-keeping, and evidence-based brief psychological interventions.

What we offer in return:

• Supervision in line with IAPT guidelines
• Competitive Salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• 33 days Annual leave including statutory/bank holiday
• Childcare Vouchers Scheme
• Where appropriate paid eye test plus up to £55 towards the cost of new glasses or lenses
• Excellent Career Development Opportunities

We reserve the right to close or extend the closing date depending on application numbers. Please submit your application as soon as possible to ensure it is considered in the selection process. If you have a disability and can demonstrate that closing this post early would impact on your ability to submit an application in time, please contact our Recruitment team on to request arrangements for an application to be submitted within the original timeframe.

To be eligible to apply for this role you must be eligible to work in the UK, and provide proof of this (i.e., a passport/visa). You will also be subject to Home Office Clearance.

We welcome applications from everyone, applicants with lived experience, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ ), people with a disability, or those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are actively encouraged to apply. We are proud to have also been awarded Disability Confident employer status. We have an ambition of becoming an anti-racist organisation and we recognise there is more to do in ensuring our recruitment is fair and inclusive, which is why we are recruiting new roles in helping us to achieve this.