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Job overview
Are you an experienced Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) seeking a step new opportunity within a well-established team?
An opportunity has arisen within Oxfordshire Talking Therapies (OTT) for a Lead PWP to join our service. This role would be best suited to an experienced PWP wishing to further develop into management and leadership. We are seeking an experienced therapist with a supervision qualification and accredited LTC/PPS top up training. We are a well-established team with a great reputation for providing a full range of high-quality evidence-based treatment and interventions for patients with anxiety/depression, with and without long term physical health conditions.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a supportive and innovative service; your ideas and creativity would be welcomed in contributing to the ongoing development of our step 2 team.
We offer excellent supervision and CPD and training to support career progression. We actively encourage innovation and research with opportunities for collaborations with Oxford Academic Health Science Network, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry and Department of Experimental Psychology.
Main duties of the job
The Lead PWP’s report to the Step 2 Lead providing robust and clear leadership across localities within the OTT service and the PWP team. They will also work in consultation with the Deputy Clinical Lead and Head of Service/Clinical Lead for OTT. This role would be based in our city locality.
The responsibilities of the role include:
- Contribute to the smooth running of the service by ensuring timely access to assessment, intervention or onward referral (if required).
- Provide management and clinical supervision to team members as agreed with the Step 2 Team Lead and operational managers and ensure all staff have access to management and clinical supervision.
- Participate in the recruitment and induction of new staff as required.
- Assist in establishing appropriate management systems and structures to ensure that all staff receive appropriate supervision, appraisal, training and induction
The Lead PWP will hold an important role in implementing agreed plans to address and meet commissioned targets and contribute and ensure the smooth, effective and safe provision of the day to day running of the Step 2 service. You will contribute to the delivery of Day Supervision for the PWP team on a weekly basis and will deputise in the absence of the Step 2 Lead.
The role also includes provision of case management supervision to Senior PWPs and line management supervision to Senior and/or supervising PWPs as well as holding a clinical caseload.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- • Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
- • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- • Ability to collect routine data and use electronic audit and case management tools in an accurate and timely fashion
- • Experience of providing line management within the service
Experience
Essential
- • Substantial experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- • Substantial experience of providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to a wide range of patients
Desirable
- • Experience of teaching and training CBT theory and skills to other professional and non-professional groups
- • Experience of supervising therapeutic group work
- • Experience of working within IAPT service
Qualifications
Essential
- • Post grad Cert in Evidence Based Psychological Treatment - IAPT pathway
- • IAPT accredited PWP supervisor training
- • IAPT PWP LTC/PPS top up training
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This advert is for Lead Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 Per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 27 Jul 2026.
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