Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Job overview

The post-holder will work within the NHS North Cumbria Talking Therapies Service within in North Cumbria.  The service provides evidence-based psychological therapies, as recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care excellence (NICE), for individuals with common mental health problems such as mild to moderate depression, anxiety disorders (e.g. PTSD, GAD, panic disorder, health anxiety and OCD) and mild bulimia.

This service is an 8am – 8pm service with some weekend work. We cover North Cumbria and have two main bases in Workington and Carlisle. The post holder will be based in one of these main sites and will be required to work into a number of venues across the locality.

We offer a combination of face-to-face and remote working (telephone and video consultation delivered either from one of our office bases or via home working), this offers the opportunity for increased flexibility and improved work / life balance.

We are committed to ongoing action to embrace diversity and working to create a welcoming and inclusive environment for all staff and patients. We welcome applications from candidates regardless of sex, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or religion. We are keen to receive applications from bilingual and multilingual speakers.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to train in delivering low intensity CBT based psychological therapies. Working in collaboration with the University you will be employed by the service working both clinically at the same time as training.  The role involves:

• Undertaking weekly training at university
• Working in service when not in university
• Organisation and the ability to balance a high clinical caseload with the academic demands of university
• Study within own time

The role of a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) is to provide high quality, short term, psychological interventions within a Step 2 framework. This involves:

• providing CBT informed interventions, including guided self-help treatment .
• Psycho-educational workshops and computerised CBT (cCBT) to patients experiencing common mental health problems.
• Complete Triage assessments, identifying most appropriate treatment options and making onward referrals when necessary.
• Have an active involvement with service development and promotion.

As a Trainee and ongoing within service once qualified you will receive regular Case Management Supervision, Line Management Supervision, Clinical Skills Supervision and further training opportunities, to ensure development of core skills and practice.

The post-holder will provide compassionate care that is based on empathy,  kindness, respect and dignity.

The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Our highly skilled and dedicated team strives to maintain fidelity to the NHS talking therapies model and provide psychological therapies in line with NICE guidance and according to the national manual. We pride ourselves on keeping our clients at the centre of all that we do. We work hard to ensure our practitioners are supported in meeting these needs as well as developing their own clinical practice. We value and support our team through variety of measures including;

• The provision of excellent Supervision, both clinical and management, access to both individual and group supervision frameworks
• Working alongside a well- established, successful, integrated Employment Advisor service
• We participate in relevant research programmes aimed at improving services for both staff and patients, staff are encouraged to be part of this, (examples include staff burnout, Self-Practice Self-Reflection).

Patient experience is routinely sought and shared within the team , this influences decision making at every level pertaining to service development. Key service decisions are made at monthly Clinical Governance meetings which involve staff from all areas of the team including patient experience representation.

For more detailed information, please see the trainee PWP job description and person specification which are attached to this vacancy.

Interviews are likely to take place in person.

Please find attached job description for full details.

Advertising date : 7th April 2026

Closing date : 21st April 2026

We welcome your application.