Job summary
Are you a Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or Occupational Therapist looking for a different kind of job?
If so we would love to hear from you! We are excited to launch our Mental Health Practitioner position - an interesting opportunity for an experienced core professional looking for a new challenge to join Hounslow IAPT- Improving Access to Psychological Therapies.
This role will be an integral part of our new screening and triage team, offering daily consultation on risk and safeguarding issues to professionals within the service and key stakeholders.
The Hounslow IAPT service is a psychological therapies service that operates from hubs in Isleworth and Hounslow central, which is very close to the Piccadilly line. We also run clinics from sites in Feltham, Brentford, Chiswick and Hounslow Central and Hounslow West.
Why join us?
- We offer a stable, supportive, and dynamic working environment
- A relocation allowance of up £8,000, if moving more than 40 miles. Please contact us for more details.
- A values driven environment - Togetherness, Responsibility, Excellence and Caring underpin how we treat each other and our patients
- We promote a healthy work-life balance and operate a hybrid working week
- We offer flexible working, with full/part time opportunities available(minimum 3 days/week)
- Regular line management and supervision
- A comprehensive CPD and reflective practice program
Main duties of the job
It is essential that you have experience of risk management and assessment and have an understanding of formulation and treatment of IAPT appropriate disorders. We are keen to fill gaps in experience through our comprehensive CPD and supervision programme.
A typical week consists of reviewing incoming referrals to the Hounslow NHS talking therapies Service, communicating with professionals within and outside the service, in relation to patient care. More specifically, this incudes risk assessment and management safeguarding children and adults. The job plan also includes project management, supervision and CPD.
You will need experience of risk management and assessment and have an understanding of formulation and treatment of IAPT appropriate disorders. We are keen to fill gaps in experience through our comprehensive CPD and supervision programme.
We would be delighted to receive applications from professionals with experience of working as a Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or Occupational Therapist within a Primary/Secondary care Mental Health team.
We are passionate about engaging all groups of our community, and as such, we operate evening clinics (up until 8pm) Monday - Thursday and you would work one 12-8pm shift per week to cover this service need.
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We'rerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Job description
Job responsibilities
So why join us?
We pride ourselves on being a friendly, supportive and inclusive team, and place emphasis on team building. More recently team activities have included a fully funded staff dinner and pottery classes. We also have regular Away Days, to focus on interpersonal and professional skills, with time away from the office to optimise team cohesion.
Please see the attached Job Pack for full details about this role.
We think Hounslow IAPT is a fantastic place to work! If you would like to discuss the role in any more detail please contact Dr Annabelle Norman or Dr Lena Paul, Joint Clinical Leads by email at annabelle.norman@nhs.net or lenapaul@nhs.net.
For more information about our service please visit our website on https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk/our-services/adult/iapt/iapt-hounslow
You will also be able to engage in team reflective practice.
We are proud of our dedicated wellbeing team who promote a healthy work-life balance and regular events to bring our team together
We have recently had positive feedback from a staff survey where we scored highly in regard to perceptions of the quality of care staff felt able to provide, levels of support, feeling valued and in equality and diversity.
As a service we operate from our main hub in Isleworth, with clinics also being run from sites in Feltham, Brentford, Chiswick and Hounslow Central and Hounslow West.
Job description
Job responsibilities
So why join us?
We pride ourselves on being a friendly, supportive and inclusive team, and place emphasis on team building. More recently team activities have included a fully funded staff dinner and pottery classes. We also have regular Away Days, to focus on interpersonal and professional skills, with time away from the office to optimise team cohesion.
Please see the attached Job Pack for full details about this role.
We think Hounslow IAPT is a fantastic place to work! If you would like to discuss the role in any more detail please contact Dr Annabelle Norman or Dr Lena Paul, Joint Clinical Leads by email at annabelle.norman@nhs.net or lenapaul@nhs.net.
For more information about our service please visit our website on https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk/our-services/adult/iapt/iapt-hounslow
You will also be able to engage in team reflective practice.
We are proud of our dedicated wellbeing team who promote a healthy work-life balance and regular events to bring our team together
We have recently had positive feedback from a staff survey where we scored highly in regard to perceptions of the quality of care staff felt able to provide, levels of support, feeling valued and in equality and diversity.
As a service we operate from our main hub in Isleworth, with clinics also being run from sites in Feltham, Brentford, Chiswick and Hounslow Central and Hounslow West.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Postgraduate training in another core mental health profession (nursing, occupational therapy) or equivalent experience
- Professional registration with the appropriate Health Professions Council (HPC) AND/OR To be accredited by the BABCP as a provisionally or fully accredited practitioner, or to be able to achieve provisional practitioner accreditation with the BABCP within six months of starting in post
Desirable
- Postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical or counseling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Evidence of using training in mental health and experience working in a stepped care service for anxiety and depression
- Fully accredited with the BABCP
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems that reflect a range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Significant experience of safeguarding and assessing and managing clinical risk
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Desirable
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services
- Experience of working in a liaison role
- Worked in a service where performance was closely monitored to demonstrate clinical outcomes
- Experience of biopsychosocial assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings. including outpatient, community, and primary care settings
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients within an IAPT service
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of issues relating to primary and secondary care psychological therapies services
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.)
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Postgraduate training in another core mental health profession (nursing, occupational therapy) or equivalent experience
- Professional registration with the appropriate Health Professions Council (HPC) AND/OR To be accredited by the BABCP as a provisionally or fully accredited practitioner, or to be able to achieve provisional practitioner accreditation with the BABCP within six months of starting in post
Desirable
- Postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical or counseling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Evidence of using training in mental health and experience working in a stepped care service for anxiety and depression
- Fully accredited with the BABCP
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems that reflect a range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Significant experience of safeguarding and assessing and managing clinical risk
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Desirable
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services
- Experience of working in a liaison role
- Worked in a service where performance was closely monitored to demonstrate clinical outcomes
- Experience of biopsychosocial assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings. including outpatient, community, and primary care settings
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients within an IAPT service
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of issues relating to primary and secondary care psychological therapies services
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.)
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
