Lead Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

NHS; Isleworth; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in the UK seeks a Lead PWP to support a team providing psychological therapies. This role requires significant experience in psychological assessment and treatment, along with supervision and leadership development. The successful candidate will manage caseloads and contribute to service operational running. Based in Isleworth, this full-time permanent position offers salary ranging from £56,276 to £63,176, along with opportunities for career progression within the NHS.

Qualifications

• Significant post qualification consolidated experience in delivering evidence-based Talking Therapies.
• Experience in delivering clinical supervision and line management.
• Ability to manage complex cases and handle emotional issues professionally.

Responsibilities

• Hold a small clinical case load.
• Provide supervision and line management to the PWP team.
• Contribute to the operational running of the service.

Skills

Teamwork

Self-reflection

Communication

Clinical governance

Risk assessment

Education

Talking Therapies Low Intensity worker qualification

BPS/BABCP registered PWP

Completion of NHS approved low intensity Supervision training

Tools

Excel

SPSS for Windows

Job description

Job summary

Since launching in 2009, Hammersmith & Fulham has become a well-established successful NHS Talking Therapies service. We are looking to recruit a Lead PWP into an established role to offer continued support for the PWP in delivering high quality and accessible care to adults in the borough. The post attracts inner London weighting and is ideal for a PWP with significant consolidated post qualification experience, who has ideally held the position of Senior PWP and is keen to develop leadership skills. It's a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate and develop skills in service development, line management and the development of the PWP profession.

We are particularly looking for applicants interested in developing a career within the PWP profession. We are looking for a candidate who can offer long term commitment to the role to support their development and to adequately offer long term support to those they line manage and supervise. We would ask applicants wanting to seek further clinical training in the next 2+ years to carefully consider applying for this role and if they can offer the commitment, training and development it requires.

H&F Talking Therapies offers career progression for PWPs into band 8a roles and beyond, offering a unique opportunity for PWPs wanting to stay in the profession to progress their careers in management and leadership roles.

Main duties of the job

The Lead PWP will hold a small clinical case load, provide supervision and line management to the PWP team and share responsibility for the operational running of the service with the other Step 2 lead clinicians. They will be required to work one evening session (12pm-8pm Monday to Thursday). The role will be varied, thus supporting the post holder to develop assessment, treatment, supervision, line management, leadership and project management skills.

You will need experience of risk management and assessment, formulation and treatment of Talking Therapies appropriate disorders within a PWP framework and have some supervision and line management experience. We are keen to fill gaps in experience though, through our comprehensive CPD and supervision programme, and we offer ongoing support via debrief and senior duty at all times.

About us

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.

The Trust is rated as 'Good' overallby the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.

Details Date posted

21 December 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£56,276 to £63,176 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS (Inner)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

222-H&F-073

Job locations

Hammersmith and Fulham’s Psychological Therapy Service.
146 Twickenham Road
Isleworth, Middlesex
TW7 7DJ

Job description Job responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification

Qualifications (Essential)

• Talking Therapies Low Intensity worker/Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner qualification
• BPS/BABCP registered PWP
• Completion of NHS approved low intensity Supervision training via university provider.

Qualifications (Desirable)

• LTC PWP Top up training completion
• Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.

Experience (Essential)

• Ability to demonstrate significant post qualification consolidated experience in offering and delivering the range of evidence based Talking Therapies low intensity interventions such as CCBT, Guided Self-help & workshops.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients within an Talking Therapies service, including those who present with risk to self or others.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems that reflect a range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of the application of CBT in different cultural contexts including the use of interpreters
• Experience of delivering clinical supervision
• Experience of delivering Line management supervision
• Evidence of working within a service development role and the ability to co-ordinate across the service
• Demonstrates high standards in written and verbal communication (including communicating emotive information)
• Experience in teaching and training clinical skills
• Previous experience in the role of Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner or similar

Experience (Desirable)

• Experience of audit and research
• Experience recruiting and managing the performance of staff

Knowledge (Essential)

• Knowledge of different models of mental health/mental illness
• Knowledge of NHS and Policies, procedures and guidelines
• Evidence based practice/clinical governance
• High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of Step 2 interventions
• Models of assessment (including clinical risk assessment) record keeping and evidence based brief psychological intervention
• Ability to effectively manage the demands of working with more complex cases at Step 2
• Knowledge of outcome measures and their use in clinical and audit purposes
• Significant experience using computers for databases or data-analysis, especially Excel and SPSS for Windows.
• Knowledge and experience of the application of HR policies in line management
• Ability to carry out a range of evaluation and monitoring techniques

Skills (Essential)

• An ability to work well within a team and foster good working relationships with service users and staff from all disciplines.
• Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with a busy workload agreed and managed at regular intervals.
• Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in context of supervision

Other requirement (Essential)

• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice
• Able to work at least one evening session, till 8.00pm.
• Able to attend the office bases in Hammersmith & Fulham regularly as needed, as well as work from home as needed in a confidential environment.
• Self-motivated, able to work autonomously and independently with confidence.
• Be aware of the limitations in own competencies and seek appropriate senior advice.

Other requirement (Desirable)

• Fluent in languages other than English

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

West London NHS Trust

Address

Hammersmith and Fulham’s Psychological Therapy Service.
146 Twickenham Road
Isleworth, Middlesex
TW7 7DJ

Employer's website

https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)