Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (between 8am and 8pm as service needs)
- Job ref
- 367-ACMS-9759
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tekhnicon House
- Town
- Braintree
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 Per annum, Pro rata (5% HCAS Included)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
The NHS Talking Therapies Service in Mid Essex, covering Braintree, Chelmsford, Maldon and surrounding towns and villages, is looking to employ a full-time Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner. The role, working closely with the PWPs they supervise, plays a central role in ensuring our service is of the best quality, with the best outcomes for our service users.
Main duties of the job
The key part of this role will be to provide clinical supervision, support and development for PWPs within the service. The Senior PWP will work alongside the Talking Therapies Operational Manager, Team Leaders and our other Senior PWPs and Senior Clinicians. As a Senior PWP, individual clinical supervision will be provided by a Senior Clinician within the team. There will be opportunities for ongoing professional development as well as the chance to contribute to further service development.
You will be an experienced PWP with at least 1 year post qualification experience and with a recognized Talking Therapies qualification in Step 2 intervention and will be registered or working towards PWP accreditation with the BABCP or BPS. The position provides an excellent opportunity for a suitably qualified and experienced PWP to lead in the further development of the PWP role as the service grows and ensure our team of PWPs are supported and supervised effectively. You will enjoy the flexibility of hybrid working and be based in Tekhnicon House, Braintree for a minimum of 2 days per week.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Undertake appropriate clinical supervision on a regular basis in accordance
with the relevant professional guidelines and policies - Take personal responsibility for achieving agreed clinical activity in accordance with service policies.
- To develop an area of special interest, to the level whereby the post-holder
could become a resource of information for the whole service. - Adhere to the policies and procedures of Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust.
- Maintain appropriate clinical records in keeping with service operational policy
- Participate in setting and review of objectives for the post on an annual basis
- Participate in activities of ‘continuing professional development’ (CPD) on an annual basis.
- Attend professional meetings as appropriate.
- Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.
- Co-ordinate and liaise between different staff groups including Assistant psychologists, High Intensity Therapists.
- Support the development and delivery of interactive psycho-education within a CBT framework to large groups of Service Users.
For full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Talking Therapies supervision training and experience
- Postgraduate Certificate in Talking Therapies step 2 working
- Significant post qualification experience
- Significant experience of working with people with common mental health problems
- Significant post-qualification experience in offering and delivering the full range of evidence-based Talking Therapies low intensity interventions
- Registered or working towards PWP accreditation with the BABCP or BPS
Desirable criteria
- A related undergraduate degree, e.g. Psychology
- Additional areas of training through short courses
- Experience of delivering training to a range of professionals
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a Talking Therapies service
- Significant knowledge of IAPT compliant step 2 ways of working
- Knowledge of NHS policies, procedures and guidelines
- Knowledge of working with diversity
- Evidence-based practice
- Knowledge of assessment procedures, screening, referral, record-keeping and evidence-based brief psychological interventions
- Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes
- Knowledge of Child Protection legislation
- Knowledge of clinical risk assessment
- Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
- An understanding of the context of IAPT stepped care
- Experience of having worked in a service where agreed waiting time and clinical outcomes targets are in place
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
Desirable criteria
- Experience of partnership working
- Substantial experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork
- Experience of audit and research
- Experience of working in a supervisor role
- Ability to carry out a range of evaluation and monitoring techniques
- Fluency in a community language other than English
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
- Sue Flower
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01376 308704
- Additional information
Sheridan Skeggs
Senior Clinician
*Please note that whilst the Talking Therapies Mid Essex service is currently provided by HPFT, the contract is due to end on 31.03.2026, after which there may be a new provider of the service.*
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