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Job summary

Main area
Adult Community Mental Health Services
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (One 12-8 shift per week)
Job ref
277-7383242-CMH
Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wensley Close
Town
London
Salary
£44,485 - £52,521 pa inc
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/08/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Band 6

Job overview

As a Senior PWP, you will be part of a team consisting of a Lead PWP and three Senior PWPs. Collectively you will be responsible for all aspects of the day to day running of a busy step-2 team.

You will be required to offer a cohort of trainee and qualified PWPs case management supervision and line management.

You will be involved in service development and promotion.

You will work with the team to monitoring clinical activity, manage step-2 waiting lists and productivity.

You will hold a caseload of clients delivering a range of low intensity evidence-based services within Step 2 of the stepped care pathway focussing on self-help and guided self-help.

Main duties of the job

  • Clinical- offering step-2 NICE recommended guided self-help CBT based interventions
  • Managing your own caseload
  • Attending regular supervisions and training
  • Line management of trainee and qualified PWPs
  • Offering case management and clinical skills supervision to trainee and qualified PWPs
  • Service development and promotion
  • Performance management

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

  • We’re Kind
  • We’re Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Qualified PWP
Desirable criteria
  • Psychology undergrad

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in NHS Talking therapies
Desirable criteria
  • two years post qualified experience of working as a PWP

Experience

Desirable criteria
  • Line management or supervision experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthPride In Veterans

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high volume of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Penny Moyse
Job title
Lead Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02032601100
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