Job summary
- Main area
- Low Intensity Therapist Practitioner
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months (due to service needs)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm)
- Job ref
- 110-ACS182-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- ARC
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £30,420 - £37,030 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Low Intensity Therapist Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 5
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
THIS POST IS FIXED TERM FOR UPTO 18 MONTHS DUE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE SERVICE
This is an exciting new opportunity with the Bridgend Locality Primary Care Mental Health Support Service. The existing team includes Assessor Practitioners and Primary Care and High Intensity Therapists. The role aims to improve access to low intensity interventions, providing intervention in line with the Mental Health Measure (2010) . The primary mental health support service offers Assessment, advice, information & treatment for condition specific mental health issues.
Main duties of the job
· To effectively manage a defined group of clients under the supervision of the LPMHSS Senior Therapist.
· To participate in the delivery of a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions on a 1:1 and group basis with the supervision and support of relevant members of the Local Primary Mental Health Support Service.
· This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- A recognised qualification in Counselling/psychological therapy (Degree or post grad diploma), registered with BABCP, BACP or HCPC and working towards accreditation. Demonstrates an understanding of common mental health conditions. Demonstrates an understanding of the need to use evidence-based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post. Good understanding of the Mental Health Measure Part 1 and 2, Matrics Cymru. Evidence of post registration and post qualification study and CPD.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates knowledge of societal issues and the impact it can have on mental health. Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems and their effects. Completed training in the delivery of low intensity psychological therapies as designated in Matrics Cymru.
- Competence in research design and methodologies.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality. Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, as well as in personal and professional development and supervision.
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems. Experience of effective case load management. Experience of working with individuals or groups utilising CBT or other psychological approaches. Experience of setting up and facilitating group work. Have experience in working with people with mental health conditions.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in NHS Primary Care Services. Experience of Working in a service where agreed targets are in place, demonstrating clinical outcomes. Evidence of working in the local community and with third sector organisations.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalee Moon
- Job title
- Team leader LPMHSS / Arweinydd Tîm LPMHSS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 763007
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