Employer Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Willowbrook Health Centre Town Corby Salary £38,682 - £46,580 pa, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 19/09/2025 23:59
Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
Do you want to make a difference? Do you want to help improve people\'s wellbeing and quality of life? If the answer is yes then you will find working with NHS Northamptonshire Talking Therapies hugely rewarding.
We are an innovative and enthusiastic service wanting to recruit a diverse workforce, who are values driven, compassionate and have a desire to deliver high quality psychological therapies every day.
Main duties of the job
This post Band 6 Senior PWP NHS Northamptonshire Talking Therapies
* Supporting staff to deliver Step 2 interventions within the Talking Therapies service
* Providing high quality supervision, support and a focus on wellbeing for staff providing low-intensity interventions within the service
* Offer expert clinical support and guidance to Step 2 staff
* To have overall clinical responsibility for the delivery of Step 2 interventions
* To ensure National Talking Therapies standards are met
* To contribute to learning and development of Step 2 low intensity workers
* To provide some clinical intervention at step 2 for people with common mental health problems, both in-person and via telephone and video appointments
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the bout You Section of the document.
Person specification
Qualifications
* PG Cert LI Interventions
* Low intensity Supervisors course
Experience
* Experience of a Supervisory role or of supervising others.
By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.
You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.
Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.
We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.
All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,
At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly, the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.
Please note that all new starters to the trust are subject to a probationary period.
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.
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