Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

The closing date is 19 November 2025

Job summary

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. We currently have 2 Senior PWP vacancies, 1 based at Lotus House in Northampton in our Central Team, a second based at Willowbrook Health Centre in Corby in our North Team.

Main duties of the job

This post Band 6 Senior PWP NHS Northamptonshire Talking Therapies
- Supporting staff to deliver quality assessments, treatment and support to people accessing the service.
- Providing high quality supervision, support, and a focus on wellbeing for staff providing assessments within the service.
- Offer expert clinical support and guidance to Step 2 staff.
- To ensure National Talking Therapies standards are met.
- To contribute to learning and development of PWP, Assistant Psychologists, Mental Health Support Practitioners and peer supporters.
- To provide some clinical intervention at step 2 for people with common mental health problems, particularly supporting with our groups and webinars programme.

About us

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.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Date posted

11 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year pa, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

270-TG484-MH

Job locations

Lotus House

Victoria Street

Northampton

NN1 3NR

Job description

Job 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 About You Section of the document.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Post graduate cert/diploma in Low Intensity Psychological Interventions

Experience

Essential

Minimum of 1 year post qualification experience

Desirable

2 years post qualification experience
Experience working in a senior PWP role

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Post graduate cert/diploma in Low Intensity Psychological Interventions

Experience

Essential

Minimum of 1 year post qualification experience

Desirable

2 years post qualification experience
Experience working in a senior PWP role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.