Senior Psychological Well Being Practitioner


Location
Warrington, England
Salary
£39,959 - £48,117 per annum / pro rata
Profession
Practitioner
Grade
Band 6
Deadline
28 Oct 2026
Contract Type
Permanent: Based in South Liverpool Talking Therapies
Posted Date
19 Oct 2026
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Job requirements

Essential

25 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Skills

    The capacity to adapt core psychological approaches to the primary care culture, incorporating a range of skills to meet a broad spectrum of presenting issues

  • Skills

    Clinical risk assessment

  • Skills

    Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision

  • Skills

    Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients

  • Skills

    Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships

  • Values

    Continuous improvement – committed to making improvements to our services for the benefit of all

  • Values

    Accountability – taking ownership to anticipate, develop and deliver high quality care

  • Values

    Respect – how we treat others in an inclusive and supportive way

  • Values

    Enthusiasm – demonstrate our passion and pride for what we do and how we do it

  • Values

    Support – actively supporting others with compassion and courage

  • Knowledge

    Knowledge of different models of mental health/mental illness

  • Knowledge

    Understanding of models of assessment, screening, referral, record-keeping and evidence-based brief psychological intervention

  • Knowledge

    Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes

  • Knowledge

    Knowledge of Child Protection legislation

  • Experience

    Significant experience of working with people with common mental health problems

  • Experience

    Ability to demonstrate a range of post-qualifying experiences (min 1 year) in offering and delivering the range of evidence based IAPT low intensity interventions such as guided self-help and group psycho-education

  • Experience

    Consolidated and reflective supervised post-qualifying experience in a community setting

  • Experience

    Experience of working with clients in a primary care setting

  • Experience

    Experience of ‘partnership working'

  • Experience

    Substantial experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork

  • Experience

    Experience of working with suicidal clients and of risk management

  • Experience

    Experience of working within the IAPT culture

  • Qualifications

    A degree related to Mental Health e.g. Psychology

  • Qualifications

    Specific Low Intensity Worker / Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner qualification (e.g., Post Grad Certificate in Primary Care Mental Health Practice or equivalent)

  • Qualifications

    Registration with either the BABCP or the BPS

Desirable

13 listed

Additional qualities the employer would prefer.

  • Skills

    Ability to carry out a range of evaluation and monitoring techniques

  • Skills

    Able to work through interpreters

  • Knowledge

    An awareness of serious mental health presentations (psychosis, bi-polar)

  • Knowledge

    Evidence of further training in psychological interventions/therapy

  • Experience

    Experience in drug/alcohol management

  • Experience

    Experience of supervising others within a therapy setting of helping profession such as social work nursing

  • Experience

    Experience of dealing with clients whose children are subject to Child Protection legislation

  • Experience

    Experience of co- working with general nurses and health visitors in a Primary Care setting

  • Experience

    Experience of screening, assessing and working with a wide spectrum of mental health issues and working with people with moderate common mental health problems

  • Experience

    Experience of audit and research

  • Experience

    Experience of and ability to provide mentor/supervisor role

  • Qualifications

    Training in a High Intensity Modality

  • Qualifications

    A qualification or experience in professional supervision

Job overview

Applicants must be suitably qualified and experienced to specifically deliver step 2 / Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner work within an Talking Therapies service, with evidence of having completed an Talking Therapies improved low-intensity CBT course with at least one year post-qualification experience.

We are looking to find an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (Senior PWP) to join our step 2 leadership team at Talking Therapies Liverpool.

Talking Therapies Liverpool is the provider of Talking Therapies primary care psychological therapies across the City of Liverpool and this vacancy is for a part-time secondment post.

The successful candidate will work alongside Team Leads, other Senior PWPs, and within the wider Talking Therapies Liverpool leadership structure to ensure support and guidance is given to the step 2 workforce and the needs of the patients of Talking Therapies Liverpool serves are being met.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be expected to:

  • *Support the Talking Therapies team KPIs with a focus on recovery*
  • Support the development of the Step 2 provision within a high pressured environment
  • Hold a reduced low intensity caseload and deliver evidence based interventions to clients in one-to-one and group settings
  • Be familiar with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and be committed to equal opportunities.
  • Develop, support and deliver training in innovative practice to Step 2 practitioners, and other workers qualified to act in Low Intensity worker roles
  • To develop the service and provide awareness raising with colleagues from external statutory and non-statutory organisations- To take a lead role in a key area of Step 2 development across the Talking Therapies Liverpool service which may include work with long term conditions, older adults, or groups/courses
  • Support the development of links with Primary Care, Secondary Care, GP’s and service users in non-statutory organisations, especially services supporting minority groups
  • Provide clinical case management, Clinical skills groups, possible line management for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and trainees.
  • To lead on nominated core tasks which could include courses, trainees, recovery, CBT

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Support the development of the Step 2 provision within a high pressured environment
  • Hold a reduced low intensity caseload and deliver evidence based interventions to clients in one-to-one and group settings
  • Be familiar with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and be committed to equal opportunities.
  • Develop, support and deliver training in innovative practice to Step 2 practitioners, and other workers qualified to act in Low Intensity worker role
  • To develop the service and provide awareness raising with colleagues from external statutory and non-statutory organisations
  • To take a lead role in a key area of Step 2 development across the Talking
  • Therapies Liverpool service which may include work with long term conditions, older adults, or groups/courses
  • Support the development of links with Primary Care, Secondary Care, GP’s and service users in non-statutory organisations, especially services supporting minority groups
  • Provide clinical case management, possible line management, and occasional clinical supervision to Step 2 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and trainee

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.

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This advert is for Senior Psychological Well Being Practitioner with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Warrington, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Practitioner role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum / pro rata. The contract type is Permanent: Based in South Liverpool Talking Therapies. The application deadline is 28 Oct 2026.

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