Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Band 6
Main area Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: 270-TH435-MH Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Some evening working required up until 8pm roughly once a week.) Job ref 270-TH435-MH
Site Lotus House Town Northampton Salary £39,959 – £48,117 pa, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/10/2026 09:00
Job overview
If you enjoy variety, thrive in a fast-paced environment and get real satisfaction from helping other clinicians grow, this is an exciting opportunity to take the next step in your career with NHS Northamptonshire Talking Therapies.
The Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (Senior PWP) role is at the heart of our Central Team. A significant part of the role involves supervising and developing other clinicians, (Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, Assistant Psychologists or Mental Health Support Practitioners), supporting them to manage busy caseloads, think confidently about clinical decisions and deliver high-quality, evidence-based care. These colleagues will be primarily delivering assessments as well as structured interventions such as groups, webinars or computerised CBT (SilverCloud).
You will also play an important role at the front door of our service, working within our assessment and triage function and helping us respond effectively to people who may be distressed, overwhelmed or unsure of what support they need. You will use your clinical judgement to help make sense of complex presentations, manage risk and ensure people are directed towards the right treatment or support at the right time.
The role requires you to be comfortable thinking on your feet, prioritising competing demands and making sound clinical decisions, whilst knowing when to seek support yourself or elevate concerns.
Main duties of the job
- Supporting staff to deliver quality assessments, treatment and support to people accessing the service.
- Providing high quality supervision, support, and a focus on wellbeing for staff providing assessments within the service.
- Offer expert clinical support and guidance to Step 2 staff.
- To ensure National Talking Therapies standards are met.
- To contribute to learning and development of PWP, Assistant Psychologists, Mental Health Support Practitioners and peer supporters.
- To provide some clinical intervention at step 2 for people with common mental health problems, particularly supporting with our groups and webinars programme.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Post graduate cert/diploma in Low Intensity Psychological Interventions
Experience
- Minimum of 1 year post qualification experience
- Experience working in a senior PWP role, offering case management supervision or supporting with staff professional development
We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.
All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,
At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary.
Please note that all new starters to the trustare subject to a probationary period.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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