LMWS Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Touchstone Support - Mental Health Charity; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HealthHero EAP & Virtual GP

Flexible working opportunities

Personal wellbeing and training budget

24/7 confidential staff helpline

Learning and personal development

Inclusive maternity and parental pay

Additional day of leave as celebration

Staff team away days

Job summary

Touchstone is seeking a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join our established talking therapies service in Leeds. This permanent, full-time role contributes to innovation and delivery of NICE-recommended interventions within the Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service.

The successful candidate will hold an IAPT PGCert, work flexibly, and support diverse communities with compassionate, evidence-based care. Information session via TEAMS and closing date in early September are noted.

Qualifications

• Post requires PGCert in IAPT approved course for low intensity interventions.
• Permanent, full-time Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.
• Experience within talking therapies and NHS services preferred.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

PGCert in Psychological Wellbeing (IAPT) or equivalent

Job description

Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire. Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people we serve if the people we recruit are happy, empowered, supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.

Tasks

If you do not hold the relevant qualification for the post (i.e. PGCert in an IAPT approved course for low intensity psychological interventions) applications will not be accepted.

Touchstone is a partner within Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service. The service offers a range of evidence-based psychological interventions both at step 2 and step 3 as proposed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance.

Requirements

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the team for one permanent and full-time Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join and contribute to the innovation and success of our well-established talking therapies service.

Information session

Information session via TEAMS on Tuesday 18th August 2026 at 12pm.

Closing date

CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 1st September 2026

Interviews

Interviews will be held on: Thursday 17th September 2026

Benefits

• Working for a diverse and inclusive organisation e.g. 36% *BME staff, 25% *LGBTQ+ staff, 16% *staff with a disability. Staff and peer support networks (*as above and many more)
• 28 days annual leave (rising to 31 after 2 years) + 8 bank holidays (pro-rata)
• Flexible working opportunities
• Access to HealthHero - Employee Assistance Scheme and Virtual GP service for staff
• Personal wellbeing and training budget.
• Access to 24/7 confidential staff helpline.
• Health and wellbeing activities and fun staff team away days
• Inclusive maternity and parental policies and pay
• Additional day of leave as a celebration day or health and wellbeing
• Learning and personal development opportunities

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, an equal rights employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly, BME and LGB and Trans communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone. All applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria will be interviewed. Additional information can be obtained from our equal opportunities policy. Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we do not intend to offer sponsorship for this particular role. You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the right to work in the UK to be able to undertake this role, if appointed, you will be required to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offer being made to you. Please note that feedback is not provided to applicants who have not been shortlisted. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.