Job summary
A Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner is required to contribute to the development of perinatal mental health care within Sheffield Talking Therapies. To develop proposals for the future offer that responds to the NHS Long Term Plan which will result in increased identification of perinatal mental health and community needs.
A Senior PWP will:
- Work within the Talking Therapies service to offer high quality evidence-based interventions within the stepped care model for people with common mental health problems such as Anxiety and Depression.
- Support GPs and other health care professionals in primary and secondary care teams to help manage patients with Depression or Anxiety.
- Offer supervision and professional and practical support to PWP colleagues of varying experience (including PWP Trainees) within the Talking Therapies service.
- Offer expert support; clinical guidance and leadership as needed to other PWP colleagues requiring support or when dealing with suitability or difficult clinical situations.
- Work alongside the Team Leaders/Central & Equalities Manager to help us achieve our aims of supporting access and outcomes for people from underrepresented communities.
Main duties of the job
- Deliver effective mental health care to birthing partners, non-birthing partners and their infants in line with Step 2 care delivery within the Talking Therapies service during the perinatal period.
- Engage in joint working and develop the interface between other services and Sheffield Talking Therapies to ensure perinatal journeys are supported.
- Engage with service users and communities in order to develop proposals for service development aiming to enhance perinatal mental health care.
- Contribute to project management, evaluation, and co-ordination of service development project(s), as required, in order to support teams to provide high quality perinatal mental health care in line with guidelines and community needs.
- Create, contribute to and deliver teaching and training on issues related to perinatal mental health within Sheffield Talking Therapies
- Work with colleagues to embed the Talking Therapies Perinatal Competency Framework
- Participate in the induction and training of new staff, as required.
- Support staff to understand perinatal mental health and the pathways to support for families across the region.
- Be responsible for data collection, entry, and analysis as part of audit and evaluation of such project(s) while collecting data in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
- Analyse available data sources to review the access to perinatal mental health services from the communities currently identified as under-represented.
About us
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we’re looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.
What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it’s all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.
It’s important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are
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