# Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

**Company**: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: St Albans
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: £32073.00 to £39043.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) to join our NHS Talking Therapies service in St Albans or Hemel Hempstead. As a PWP, you will work alongside high-intensity therapists to support step 3 groups, promote the service, and deliver group webinars.

The successful candidate will be a qualified PWP, registered with the BABCP/BPS, and have significant experience working with people with mental health difficulties in a healthcare setting. You will be able to work on-site in St Albans or Hemel Hempstead at least two days a week and access other areas of Hertfordshire on occasion.

Our trust values are welcoming, kind, positive, respectful, and professional. We offer a hybrid working pattern, with the expectation of attending the office for a minimum of two days a week. A full internal CPD program is available to all staff throughout the year.

The salary for this permanent, full-time position is £32,073 to £39,043 per annum.

**Responsibilities:**

- Work alongside high-intensity therapists to support step 3 groups

- Promote the service in various ways when clinical work allows

- Deliver group webinars

- Manage own caseload and time effectively

- Demonstrate high standards of written communication

- Develop good therapeutic relationships with clients, patients, and carers

**Requirements:**

- Qualified PWP with current PWP accreditation

- Registered with BABCP/BPS (or eligible and willing to apply)

- Significant experience working with people with mental health difficulties in a healthcare setting

- Commitment to inclusive and anti-discriminatory practice

- Ability to work on-site in St Albans or Hemel Hempstead at least two days a week

**Person Specification:**

- Talking Therapies (previously IAPT) Graduate OR Post Graduate Certificate in Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Interventions

- PWP registration with BABCP or BPS OR must be eligible and willing to apply

- Evidence of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem

- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets

- Experience of working in Primary Care Services

- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes

- Ability to manage own caseload and time

- Demonstrates high standards of written communication

- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care

- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health

## Skills

### Required
- PWP accreditation
- BABCP/BPS registration
- Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Interventions
- Primary Care Services
- Mental Health

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