Senior Perinatal PWP / Qualified PWP - NHS Talking Therapies

As a Senior Perinatal Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner and a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner you will be responsible for managing a caseload of clients and providing assessment and low intensity interventions to clients, drawing from CBT theories and techniques. You will work alongside the management team to make sure that key performance indications are being met and will help to support the vision to improve access and treatment outcomes for perinatal clients., Manage a caseload of clients.

Provide assessment and low intensity interventions to clients drawing from CBT theories and techniques. This work may be face to face, telephone, group, or via other media.

Support the vision to improve access and treatment outcomes for perinatal clients.

Promote Manchester Talking Therapies to perinatal services.

Work alongside the management team to ensure that key performance indicators (KPIs) for perinatal clients are met.

Deliver a range of evidence based one-to-one or group interventions.

Organise and deliver Perinatal wellbeing taster sessions in the community in partnership with our community engagement team.

Deliver focused perinatal training to the wider staff team, specifically as part of the induction process for new starters.

Provide case management supervision where necessary, ensuring staff maintain data outcomes as per service requirement.

Triage referrals into the service, managing risk and identifying appropriate client care pathway.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and will be subject to enhanced DBS checks.

Provide Duty cover to the team, supporting staff with risk and safeguarding concerns.

Participate in an on-call system and/or duty manager rota as required.

Identify training/CPD opportunities for step 2 staff.

Deliver and support events within the community; with a focus on perinatal events

Attend all relevant training where required and to facilitate the roll-out of this to the wider team.

Talking Therapies - The Big Life Group is a user led mental health charity that has developed considerable expertise in the field of primary care mental health.

The charity currently delivers a range of services including self help support groups, cCBT services, counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. The charity is funded by various NHS Trusts and works across the North West with the head office based in Hulme, Manchester.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and will be subject to enhanced DBS checks., Big Life is in the business of changing lives. We fight inequality by working with people and places to create opportunities and inspire change. Whatever service we deliver to help people to change their lives, we do thingsthe Big Life Way.

Big Life strives to be diverse and inclusive- a place where we can all be ourselves. We strongly encourage applicants from all parts of society. You can read on our careers site about the actions we are taking ourselves to fight inequality and inspire change.

We actively value the lived experiences and expertise of our staff, volunteers and the people who use our service and see the extra value that they bring to our organisation.

The Big Life group positively promotes diversity in the workforce.

The Big Life groupis committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults