Job summary
- Main area
- Talking Therapies East - PWP
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-MHS1074
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- London House, London Road
- Town
- Bracknell
- Salary
- £33,677 - £40,996 per annum (inc. of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/06/2026
Employer heading
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Band 5
Job overview
Are you a qualified Band 5 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) looking to make a real difference in people’s lives? We are looking for enthusiastic and compassionate PWPs to join our friendly and innovative Talking Therapies service based at our head office in Bracknell.
As a PWP, you will play a key role in improving access to evidence-based interventions for people experiencing mild to moderate anxiety and depression. Working within primary care and community settings, you will support service users to build resilience, improve wellbeing, and achieve meaningful recovery.
You will work with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and collaborate closely with professionals across health, social care and community services, demonstrating a strong commitment to equality and inclusion.
We offer a Monday – Friday working pattern, with hybrid options for a mix of working from home and in the office. There is an expectation to work one late per week 12-8pm (but no lates on Fridays).
If you are passionate about improving mental health outcomes and want to develop your career in a supportive service, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Providing high volume low intensity interventions using cognitive behavioural therapy for mild to moderate anxiety and depression
• Opportunities to support those with long term health conditions and those with employment issues alongside our fantastic employment support team
• Opportunities to support a diverse population of patients
• Facilitating group sessions
• Yearly training opportunities.
• Opportunities to support new staff members and provide supervision. Every year we are lucky to be able to offer supervisor training to qualified PWPs alongside Reading University
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The must haves:
• Post graduate certificate in evidence based psychological treatments (IAPT pathways)
• Registered with BACP for PWP Accreditation. (Please note this is now a standard requirement of all IAPT services) https://www.babcp.com/PWP/How-to-apply
• Evidenced experience of supporting Long Term Conditions (LTC)
• Willing to work one 12-8pm shift per week (the rest either 8-4pm or 9-5pm, no late shifts on Fridays).
We also welcome those who can offer therapy in other languages, although not essential for this role.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call Sophie Strange on 0300 365 2000 or email [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Successful completion of a BPS-accredited PWP training programme
- Registration as a PWP on the British Psychological Society (BPS) Wider Psychological Workforce Register OR PWP registration with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
Desirable criteria
- Relevant bachelor’s degree (e.g., psychology, mental health, sociology, education etc.) graded at 2:2 or above
Continuous Professional Development/ Training
Essential criteria
- Commitment to ongoing professional development and training
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuous professional development in the delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions of relevance to the post
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a Trainee/ qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
- Significant experience of working with people experiencing mental health problems within community settings
- Experience of working in or with a diverse or multi-cultural community
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services
- Worked in a service where agreed targets are in place and demonstrating clinical outcomes
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Experience of being supervised and utilising the supervision in clinical practise
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of common mental health problems, including anxiety and depression, and how they may present
- Knowledge of evidence based low intensity interventions for service users with common mental health disorders
- Understands the concept of stepped care and how it relates to the care of people experiencing common MH problems
- Knowledge of and ability to use Routine Outcome Measures to help evaluate progress of care plans
- Understands importance of collecting feedback from service users and other key stakeholders, and using this to contribute to quality improvement
- Ability to undertake comprehensive risk assessments, drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, within scope of practice
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues and a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of service users
- Ability to manage a sensitive and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build, develop and manage therapeutic and professional relationships with a range of people
- Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individuals’ health and wellbeing, arriving at relevant care plans
- Able to analyse and synthesize multiple sources of information to contribute to the team’s understanding and formulation of service users’ difficulties and the development of multi-disciplinary care plans
- Able to plan and deliver psychologically informed interventions to meet individual health and wellbeing needs
- High standard of letter and report writing
- Excellent IT skills including ability to use Microsoft Office programmes and understanding of online clinical tools and programmes
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
Additional requirements
Essential criteria
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and patient confidentiality
- Able to work flexibly as required (within and outside of office hours)
- Ability to travel independently across locations in Berkshire and beyond to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position
Desirable criteria
- Fluent in a language other than English – please state all languages you could work in
- Able to work with interpreters to deliver services
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sophie Strange
- Job title
- PWP Service Lead - West
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 365 2000
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