Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: 37.5 hours per week
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Hybrid role)
- Job ref
- 444-8280980-MH
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
- Town
- Stratford upon Avon, Nuneaton, Coventry
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - Band 6
NHS AfC: Band 6
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.
PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
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Job overview
Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - Band 6
Full time, permanent role- HYBRID Working pattern
We are recruiting several Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners within the Coventry and Warwickshire Talking Therapies teams, managing and coordinating a supportive and cohesive PWP Team.
Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Talking Therapies service has a strong focus on client experience and outcome as well as staff wellbeing. The service benefits from a robust support structure, with various learning and development opportunities including an inhouse CPD programme, whereby full time staff are allocated 5 study days per year to progress their skills and knowledge.
This is a hybrid role with a mix of remote working and office based duties.
Main duties of the job
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
This is a full time role and your responsibilities will include spending one day each week at our Telephone and Referral Centre. This is where all referrals are received and processed and your role will require you to screen some of these referrals for suitability. You will also be required to assess risks on a regular basis and ensure that a management plan is developed whenever risks are identified.
Working for our organisation
Candidate Information Pack Dec 24
Psychological Professions Brochure
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support group
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
You will have experience of working with common mental health problems, be able to provide initial assessments of client need including risk assessment and deliver a range of evidence-based, high volume, low-intensity psychological interventions based on a self-management model. The range of interventions will include both individual and group work and the candidates must be confident and competent in delivering interventions using a variety of communication mediums such as telephone work, e-consultation and face-to-face activities.
You must have excellent communication/interpersonal skills and be able to work on your own initiative as well as within a team.
Must have experience of working with Trainee PWPs.
Person specification
QUALIFICATION
Essential criteria
- PWP Qualification
- supervision training
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Good written communication skills
- Computer Literate
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with people who have experienced mental health problems
OTHER
Essential criteria
- Car owner / driver
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Mandy Georgiou
- Job title
- PWP Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Please email any enquires.
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