Psychological Intervention Facilitator

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity to join Boston IPBT as a Psychological Intervention Facilitator, has arisen. This is a community based role, where you will be required to complete a trust delivered training program one day a week whilst working as part of the wider MDT within the IPBT on your other working days.
You would be well supported in a friendly and flexible team, with opportunity to continue to develop your skills and portfolio of evidence based interventions to further your personal development and continue to provide a service to meet the needs of the community.
This role is part of a new mental health workforce that is co-located within the adult community mental health and older people and frailty services.
Teams will build integrated ways of working and provide a collaborative approach to delivering local services and joined up support for people locally. This includes involvement from health, social care, local authority, third sector and voluntary and community organisations; everyone working together to find solutions to the health and wellbeing
The Psychological Intervention Facilitator (PIF) role aims to deliver defined wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles. Increasing the psychological mindedness of the workforce this role will be located in various teams across the adult community mental health and older people and frailty services.
The post-holder will engage in a trust led vocational training programme for the delivery of specified wellbeing interventions and deliver these interventions to patients on their caseload under the close supervision of a nominated psychological practitioner in their team. Attendance at weekly case management supervision and fortnightly clinical skills is an essential part of the role.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life . Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more .
Please see attached Job description
To deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a wellbeing practitioner, clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including:
o Behavioural activation
o Graded exposure
o Teaching problem-solving skills
o Improving sleep
o Recognising and managing emotions
o Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
o Building confidence
o Medication support
o Relapse Prevention
To work within the wider MDT of IPBT and in line with trust values

Please refer the Job description for details