Main area Community Mental Health Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (There are both full time and part time roles available, and will consider flexible working requests in line with employment law) Job ref 350-CC7226667-A
Site Talking Therapies Halton Town Widnes Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 28/07/2025 23:59
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to join our dynamic and innovative service that delivers psychological interventions for people with mild to moderate depression and anxiety related disorders in Halton. You will be familiar with primary care psychological services, and will deliver low intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy based treatment.
Important Note: You MUST hold a recognised Post Graduate Certificate / qualification which demonstrates that you are specifically trained to work as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner OR be toward the end of studying for this qualification, and expect to complete this within 3 months. You should only apply if you have undergone / are completing training for a specific PWP role.
Owing to National requirements around Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner registration, qualified PWPs will need to have registration in place or newly qualified staff to achieve this within 6 months of qualifying.
Main duties of the job
You must also be able to demonstrate high levels of written and verbal communication; be computer literate and be able to demonstrate good therapeutic relationships with people.
You will have experience of working in primary care and community settings and be able to work on your own initiative.
You should have a real interest in helping people with anxiety and depression to achieve a level of recovery which will improve their overall wellbeing and day to day life.
Ideally, you will also be experienced in facilitating courses/workshops for patients and/or community members (or have a willingness to get involved in the delivery of groups) and experience of delivering CCBT via SilverCloud (or willingness to learn).
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under the supervision of an appropriately skilled and qualified person to;
1. Develop skills of collaborative working with service users (and where appropriate their carers) to build an effective partnership of care.
2. To carry a caseload of clients and assist in identifying and effectively managing their emotional distress and disturbance.
3. Utilise a range of guided self-help interventions, in line with NICE guidelines.
4. Utilise a range of core skills in mental health practice in order to contribute to and co-ordinate the care and treatment of clients with mild mental health problems.
5. Implement and support a range of evidence based interventions utilising a self management model of mental health care.
6. Collaborate with service users and other people involved in their care to encourage medication compliance.
7. Help to establish systems in practices for the effective management of mental health needs of individual service users, families and communities.
8. Through supervision, systematically evaluate and record outcomes of mental health interventions, adapting care on the basis of these evaluations.
9. Participate in inter-professional approaches to care that respect and utilise the contributions of the wider health and social care team.
10. Utilise managerial and clinical supervision to ensure that care and treatment are tailored to service users, family and community needs; that learning needs are identified and acted upon to ensure personal development.
11. Practice in a non discriminatory manner, respecting the variety of beliefs and cultural practices of individuals and groups.
12. Assist in the delivery of the Mental Health Promotion Strategy for the Halton Borough at a local level.
13. To record and evaluate `outcome measures` as part of the ongoing therapy process, for a `service user`
14. To assist in the accurate entry of clinical data onto the Trusts agreed systems.
15. To ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entering and recording
For full detail, please see attached Job Description and Person Spec.
Person specification
Qualification
* Having passed an accredited course and being specifically qualified as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner – i.e., PGCert in Primary Care Mental Health Practice / PGCert Low Intensity CBT Practitioner
* Registration with either the BABCP or the BPS (or for newly qualified/appointed staff, to achieve this within 12 months)
* Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.
* Health or Social Care related degree
Experience
* Demonstratesan understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
* Proven relevant experience of working with people with common mental health problems.
* Ability to manage own workload and time.
* Ability to demonstrate high standards in written communication.
* Able to write clear reports and letters.
* Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills.
* Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
* Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health.
* Knowledge of self-help materials for managing common mental health problems.
* Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
* Proven relevant experience of working in Primary Care Services
* Proven relevant experience of working in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.
* Proven relevant experience of working in the local community.
* Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
Skills
* Ability to evaluate and integrate training into practice.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills.
* High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
* Advanced communication skills
* Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
* Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
* Ability to work under pressure.
* Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
* Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
* Ability to manage own workload and time.
* Ability to demonstrate high standards in written communication.
* Able to write clear reports and letters.
* Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
* Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
* Car driver and / or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the MERSEYCARE footprint
* Fluent in community languages other than English
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Kayleigh Griffin Job title Acting Clinical Team Manager Email address kayleigh.griffin@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number 0151 2926954 Additional information
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