Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Big Life group; Manchester, Rochdale; Remote; GBP 29,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

The Big Life Group is seeking a Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join a team delivering early psychological interventions in Manchester/Rochdale. You’ll assess clients and provide low-intensity CBT-based support to people with long-term health conditions, delivering face-to-face or remote sessions as appropriate.

You'll manage a caseload, work with partners to promote referrals, and contribute to community wellbeing initiatives. Permanent contract, 37.5 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of people accessing talking therapies, providing assessment and low intensity interventions drawing from CBT theories and techniques.
• Work with people with long-term physical health conditions.
• Deliver a range of evidence-based one-to-one or group interventions, face-to-face, over the phone, or via other means.
• Support events in the community, promoting the service to generate referrals.

Job description

Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Closing Date: 26/10/2026

About The Big Life Group

The Big Life Group’s mission is to fight for equity in health, in wealth and in life. We are a social business delivering a range of services across the North of England, covering everything from mental and physical health, addiction and criminal justice, to housing, education, family support and much more. What links them is how we work – The Big Life Way.

We always stand shoulder-to-shoulder with people, working with them on the things that matter most to them. Everything we do is designed and informed by the needs, priorities and strengths of people and communities.

If you’re looking for more than a job – if you want to be part of a team that’s bold, creative and relentlessly committed to equity – then Big Life could be the place for you.

The basics

£34,592 (NHS Band 5+2)

Hours

37.5 hours per week on a permanent contract

Annual leave

25 days, increasing to 30 days after five years

Base

Manchester or Rochdale, to be confirmed

Closing date for applications

Monday, 26 October. Interviews will take place on the week starting 2 November.

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What you’ll be doing

In this role, you’ll manage a case load of people accessing Talking Therapies, providing assessment and low intensity interventions, drawing from CBT theories and techniques. This will involve working with people with long-term physical health conditions.

During this role, you may work with people face-to-face, over the phone, in a group setting, or via other means. This means that you will be able to deliver a range of evidence based one-to-one or group interventions. You will also support events in the community, promoting the service to generate referrals.

Unfortunately, we’re not able to accept applications after the deadline, and we can’t accept CVs.