Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Job overview

Psychological therapies services across London are recruiting trainee PWPs as part of the NHS Talking Therapies programme to deliver evidence based psychological therapies for people with anxiety and depression. PWPs provide brief structured supported treatments such as guided self-help.

PWP training is provided by University College London (UCL) and is full time. Trainees attend university one day a week and work in service the remaining 4 days a week. Trainees will be employed in an NHS Talking Therapies psychological treatment service. Training course fees on this programme are fully funded by the NHS. In addition, trainees will receive a salary from the London NHS Talking Therapies service where they undertake their 4-day a week placement over the year of the programme. In previous years, this has been a full-time employed position at NHS band 4.

This programme is an NHS-funded psychological professions training programme. It is a course condition that all students remain employed by an NHS Talking Therapies employer for the duration of the programme.

Main duties of the job

This programme is an NHS-funded psychological professions training programme. It is a course condition that all students remain employed by an NHS Talking Therapies employer for the duration of the programme.

PWPs work with people across the adult age range. We are keen to recruit a workforce that is representative of the diverse local London population:

• Applicants should have experience of working with people with psychological, interpersonal or social problems, either through employed positions or formal volunteer roles.
• The course is a postgraduate certificate and applicants are required to demonstrate aptitude to study at postgraduate level, either through degree level education or demonstration of academic equivalence.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As part of the application process trainees will be required to nominate two London NHS Talking Therapies services as their preference for training. All details about the application process are set out in the recruitment pack. This information is essential reading for successful applications.

Recruitment is via the UCL website ONLY at the following link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospectivestudents/graduate/taught-degrees/low-intensity-cognitive-behavioural-interventions-commonmental-health-problems-pg

Please do not apply via the NHS jobs website

Recruitment opens at 10am on Thursday 23rd April and close at 10am on Monday 11th May. This is for intakes that will start at the beginning of October 2026.

Recruitment for the February 2027 intakes will open to accept applications early September 2026 via the same portal/process.

For more information about the course see: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brainsciences/pals/study/postgraduate-taught-degrees/low-intensity-cognitive-behaviouralinterventions-common-mental-health-problems