Job summary
- Main area
- Talking Therapies
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-COMM-7590187-JB-A
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Jubilee Health Centre
- Town
- Wallington
- Salary
- £35,763 - £43,466 per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 5
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are looking for an energetic Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to come and join our team. Sutton Talking Therapies is a primary care, single point of referral, mental health and wellbeing service. Sutton Talking Therapies aims to support the mental health and wellbeing of the local community through provision of wellbeing support, self-management courses, psychological therapy, and mental health assessment and recovery support. This post is located within the IAPT team at Sutton Talking Therapies. This team aims to deliver a range of evidence-based psychological interventions (e.g., CBT, IPT, DIT) to people with common mental health problems (i.e., depression, anxiety disorders and eating disorders) within a stepped-care model. Sutton Talking Therapies is professionally managed by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and operationally managed by the Sutton Uplift Service Manager. The Talking Therapies team consists of approximately 40 staff including qualified Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, CBT Therapists, and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs), who provide evidence-based psychological interventions in line with NICE guidance. Across the rest of Sutton Talking Therapies you would work in conjunction with psychiatry, community nursing staff, social work and wellbeing navigators.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will provide triage assessments, guided self-help, computerised CBT and psychoeducational group treatment to clients presenting with depression, anxiety disorders and bulimic eating disorders. There are also opportunities for project work where the successful candidate will link up with professionals/charities in the community and work to improve services for our diverse community.
As a qualified PWP, you will receive regular clinical supervision with a band 7 clinician and have access to weekly training on a range of topics relevant to your role and development.
The service operates from 9am to 8pm Monday to Friday, and 9am to 1pm on Saturdays. The post holder will be required to work flexible hours in line with this. This can be negotiated and will include week-day evenings and occasional weekends.
Candidate must have relevant low intensity PWP training and be eligible for BABCP/BPS accreditation as a PWP
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service.
- To assess and supports people with a common mental health problem in the self management of their recovery.
- To undertake patient-centred interviews which identify areas where the person wishes to see change and or recovery and makes an accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, referring unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary, or stepping-up the person’s treatment to high intensity psychological therapy. - Provide a range of information and support for evidence based high-volume low-intensity psychological treatments. This may include conducting individual guided self-help interventions, facilitating psycho-educational groups and workshops, and providing information about pharmacological treatments. This work may be face to face, telephone or via other media.
- To educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary.
- To adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
- To attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
- To complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
- To keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols and use these records and clinical outcome data in clinical decision making.
- To work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
- To assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process.
- To operate at all times from an inclusive values base which promotes recovery and recognises and respects diversity.
- To prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are delivered.
- To respond to and implement supervision suggestions by supervisors in clinical practice.
- To engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improve competences and clinical practice.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualification from PWP Training Course (Post Graduate Certificate or Level 3 undergraduate course)
- Equivalent, e.g. Experienced and Qualified Graduate Mental Health Worker with relevant Primary Care experiences and competences as required
Desirable criteria
- Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, counselling or within a psychological therapy
- Psychology or other health related undergraduate degree
- Psychology or other health related postgraduate degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services
- Experience of working in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
- Evidence of working in the local community
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training
- Ability to write clear and effective reports and letters
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Advanced communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Wai Ho
- Job title
- Step 2 Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07875 712 274
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