Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP Chelmsford

Are you a qualified or soon to be qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner looking for your next opportunity - maybe the prison IAPT service is for you!

We are The Forward Trust (formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime, mental health and addiction to move forward with their lives. Since 1991 we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

Our story - Forward Trust

As a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner you will work with adults on an individual face-to-face basis or through facilitating therapeutic groups and work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages and should be committed to equal opportunities.

A large part of your role will be to assess a service user’s suitability for evidence based psychological interventions. You will be delivering a wide range of Cognitive Behavioural therapy based interventions to those individuals presenting with mild to moderate depression and anxiety.

• Provide assessment and low intensity interventions which may include guided self-help, CBT and group work (CBT based) Group Psycho-educational workshops and computerised CBT.
• Undertake patient-centred interviews which identify areas where the individual wishes to see change and or recovery and make an accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
• Assess and support prisoners with a common mental health problem in the self- management of their recovery.
• Ensure quality standards are maintained in the delivery of the service.

• A qualified or soon to be qualified - Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
• Who is; flexible to work with the service user to meet their needs 
• With, experience of undertaking CBT assessments and delivering CBT and low intensity interventions - groups and 1:1 
• And, experience of working with people with mental health difficulties and people in primary care.

• Training opportunities and career development
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

Job Description - Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - General