Senior Psychological Well Being Practitioner

Transformation Unit; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (Band 6) for Talking Therapies Liverpool. The role is part-time (22.5 hours per week) based in South Liverpool, with evening work possible. Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro rata.

The post focuses on step 2 leadership, supporting the team, and delivering low-intensity CBT interventions within Talking Therapies Liverpool. Part-time secondment opportunities are available.

Qualifications

• A degree related to Mental Health (e.g., Psychology).
• Low Intensity Worker / Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner qualification.
• Registration with BABCP or BPS.
• Training in a High Intensity Modality.
• Qualification or experience in professional supervision.

Responsibilities

• Support the Step 2 provision within a high-pressured environment.
• Hold a reduced low intensity caseload and deliver evidence-based interventions to clients in one-to-one and group settings.
• Be familiar with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and be committed to equal opportunities.
• Develop, support and deliver training in innovative practice to Step 2 practitioners, and other workers qualified to act in Low Intensity worker roles.
• To lead on nominated core tasks which could include courses, trainees, recovery, CBT.

Skills

Therapy skills

Clinical risk assessment

Teamwork

Interpreters

Self-reflection

Education

Degree in Mental Health or Psychology

Job description

Main area Senior PWP Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: Based in South Liverpool Talking Therapies Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

22.5 hours per week (22.5 hours per week, evening work may be required.) Job ref 350-CC8354768

Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Talking Therapies South Liverpool (secondment) Town Liverpool Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum / pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 16/11/2026

Senior Psychological Well Being Practitioner

Band 6

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

Applicants must be suitably qualified and experienced to specifically deliver step 2 / Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner work within an Talking Therapies service, with evidence of having completed an Talking Therapies improved low-intensity CBT course with at least one year post-qualification experience.

We are looking to find an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (Senior PWP) to join our step 2 leadership team at Talking Therapies Liverpool.

Talking Therapies Liverpool is the provider of Talking Therapies primary care psychological therapies across the City of Liverpool and this vacancy is for a part-time secondment post.

The successful candidate will work alongside Team Leads, other Senior PWPs, and within the wider Talking Therapies Liverpool leadership structure to ensure support and guidance is given to the step 2 workforce and the needs of the patients of Talking Therapies Liverpool serves are being met.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be expected to:

• *Support the Talking Therapies team KPIs with a focus on recovery*
• Support the development of the Step 2 provision within a high pressured environment
• Hold a reduced low intensity caseload and deliver evidence based interventions to clients in one-to-one and group settings
• Be familiar with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and be committed to equal opportunities.
• Develop, support and deliver training in innovative practice to Step 2 practitioners, and other workers qualified to act in Low Intensity worker roles
• To develop the service and provide awareness raising with colleagues from external statutory and non-statutory organisations
  - To take a lead role in a key area of Step 2 development across the Talking Therapies Liverpool service which may include work with long term conditions, older adults, or groups/courses
• Support the development of links with Primary Care, Secondary Care, GP’s and service users in non-statutory organisations, especially services supporting minority groups
• Provide clinical case management, Clinical skills groups, possible line management for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and trainees.
• To lead on nominated core tasks which could include courses, trainees, recovery, CBT

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder will be expected to:

1. Support the development of the Step 2 provision within a high pressured environment

2. Hold a reduced low intensity caseload and deliver evidence based interventions to clients in one-to-one and group settings

3. Be familiar with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and be committed to equal opportunities.

4. Develop, support and deliver training in innovative practice to Step 2 practitioners, and other workers qualified to act in Low Intensity worker role

5. To develop the service and provide awareness raising with colleagues from external statutory and non-statutory organisations

6. To take a lead role in a key area of Step 2 development across the Talking

7. Therapies Liverpool service which may include work with long term conditions, older adults, or groups/courses

8. Support the development of links with Primary Care, Secondary Care, GP’s and service users in non-statutory organisations, especially services supporting minority groups

9. Provide clinical case management, possible line management, and occasional clinical supervision to Step 2 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and trainee

Person specification

Qualifications

• A degree related to Mental Health e.g. Psychology
• Specific Low Intensity Worker / Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner qualification (e.g., Post Grad Certificate in Primary Care Mental Health Practice or equivalent)
• Registration with either the BABCP or the BPS
• Training in a High Intensity Modality
• A qualification or experience in professional supervision

Skills

• The capacity to adapt core psychological approaches to the primary care culture, incorporating a range of skills to meet a broad spectrum of presenting issues
• Clinical risk assessment
• Ability to be self reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Ability to carry out a range of evaluation and monitoring techniques
• Able to work through interpreters

Experience

• Significant experience of working with people with common mental health problems
• Ability to demonstrate a range of post-qualifying experiences (min 1 year) in offering and delivering the range of evidence based IAPT low intensity interventions such as guided self-help and group psycho-education
• Consolidated and reflective supervised post-qualifying experience in a community setting
• Experience of working with clients in a primary care setting
• Experience of ‘partnership working'
• Substantial experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork
• Experience of working with suicidal clients and of risk management
• Experience of working within the IAPT culture
• Experience in drug/alcohol management
• Experience of supervising others within a therapy setting of helping profession such as social work nursing
• Experience of dealing with clients whose children are subject to Child Protection legislation
• Experience of co- working with general nurses and health visitors in a Primary Care setting
• Experience of screening, assessing and working with a wide spectrum of mental health issues and working with people with moderate common mental health problems
• Experience of audit and research
• Experience of and ability to provide mentor/supervisor role

Knowledge

• Knowledge of different models of mental health/mental illness
• Understanding of models of assessment, screening, referral, record-keeping and evidence-based brief psychological intervention
• Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes
• Knowledge of Child Protection legislation
• An awareness of serious mental health presentations (psychosis, bi-polar)
• Evidence of further training in psychological interventions/therapy

Values

• Continuous improvement – committed to making improvements to our services for the benefit of all
• Accountability – taking ownership to anticipate, develop and deliver high quality care
• Respect – how we treat others in an inclusive and supportive way
• Enthusiasm – demonstrate our passion and pride for what we do and how we do it
• Support – actively supporting others with compassion and courage

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