The Role: What you will do?

Bring your core skills and expertise in providing assessments, low intensity virtual therapy & case management.  Our referrals come from an array of sources (NHS, Insurance and Corporate) so you will work with a wide range of presentations to support clients from the beginning to the end of their therapy journey. Making people better is at the heart of everything we do and we want you to be a part of that.

Working with our network provides flexibility to have your own supervision, whilst being supported by the wider clinical and operational teams. Other benefits include:

• Choose your work pattern to suit your lifestyle, and change it through out the year
• We book your clients so you don’t have to
• Book as many clients as you want
• All DNA’s and late cancellations (24hrs) will be paid
• Get paid quicker with our 15 day payment terms from the end of the month

Please note, this role is not available for staff currently employed by Vita Health Group, or those who have left within the last 12 months. 

To be a Network PWP you will need your own insurance, DBS and be a member of the ICO. To ensure the highest level of care for our clients we also need you to have your Adults and Children Safeguarding training. We can of course support you to achieve all this.

Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Graduate/Post Graduate Certificate in Low Intensity Psychological Interventions
• BABCP registration
• Experience of dealing with a broad range of common mental health problems and providing low intensity interventions
• Experience of providing both telephone and video assessments and treatment sessions
• An understanding of acute mental health/psychological assessments
• Experience of risk assessment and routine clinical outcome monitoring
• Confident communication skills to liaise with clients as well as other professional groups and multi-disciplinary teams

Desirable:

• Have an awareness occupational health: value being ensured to both occupational clients as well as to individuals
• An awareness of working with private medical insurance

Why Vita Health Group?

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do.

We are physical and mental health specialists with over 30 years of experience.  We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UK’s largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion best practice and positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.  To support this we have a dedicated team of EDI specialists and run a range of active in-house diversity networks.

We are actively seeking to increase the diversity of our workforce, to ensure we are representative of the communities we serve at all levels. We therefore welcome applications from candidates with a wide range of lived experience.

We are committed to equitably support the wellbeing of all employees as demonstrated by:

• Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
• Our status as a Disability Confident Employer dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. All disabled candidates that meet the minimum essential criteria will be invited to interview.
• Our Ethnicity Matters Scheme where all applicants for senior roles (£40,000+) from a minority ethnic group that meet the essential criteria will be invited for interview.
• Our sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant.
• Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
• Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
• Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS). Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
• The provision of access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues which includes a team of trained Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
• An embedded “speaking up” culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.

Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you might need in the application or interview process please contact recruitment@vhg.co.uk and we will arrange.

VHG is committed to supporting transgender individuals with dignity and recognises the potential complications that may arise when taking references. We encourage applicants to contact HR at hr@vhg.co.uk to discuss or amend how we manage reference requests.

Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check. 

Any data which you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months. 

Vita Health Group reserves the right to close this job when sufficient applications have been received.

Vita Health Group