Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join our team on Westgate unit based in HMP Frankland.

The Westgate team is part of the Offender Personality Disorder national strategy. The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway programme is a jointly commissioned initiative that aims to provide a pathway of psychologically informed services for a highly complex and challenging offender group who are likely to have a severe personality disorder and who pose a high risk of harm to others, or a high risk of reoffending in a harmful way.

Westgate is situated within HMP Frankland and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear foundation Trust are contracted by Tees, Esk and Wear Valley Trust to provide care and treatment for the residents of Westgate.

The successful candidate may have desirable experience of working with a complex service user group and will have demonstrable experience of effective working with wider agencies and effective delivery of identified interventions.

The Westgate Multi-Disciplinary Team are diverse and very much integrated within the prison environment. The successful candidates will be provided with a thorough induction programme and developmental opportunities to enhance their skillset.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will work as part of the designated locality, providing low intensitypsychological interventions to service users with mental health problems. Theseinclude a range of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based self-managementinterventions offered as individual or group interventions. This work will be both faceto face and telephone based.

The post holder will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that high quality individualised care is delivered which ensures safety and a commitment to promoting recovery and wellbeing, and maximising independence.

The post-holder will provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity.

The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.