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 .In the event that you are successful, you will be permanently based within one of our 6 PWP localities: Newbury Hospital (Newbury); Wokingham Hospital (Wokingham); Erlegh House (Reading); Upton Hospital (Slough); London House (Bracknell); Foundation House (WAM)
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
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
Previous Experience
Essential
- 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
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
Additional requirements
Essential
- 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
- Fluent in a language other than English – please state all languages you could work in
- Able to work with interpreters to deliver services
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- 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
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- 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
- Relevant bachelor’s degree (e.g., psychology, mental health, sociology, education etc.) graded at 2:2 or above
Continuous Professional Development/ Training
Essential
- Commitment to ongoing professional development and training
Desirable
- Evidence of continuous professional development in the delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions of relevance to the post
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This advert is for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner with Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Bracknell, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £33,677 - £40,996 per annum (inc. of HCAS). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 29 Jul 2026.
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