Job Summary
About You
Are you a qualified PWP looking for a new challenge? Are you ready to demonstrate your passion, enthusiasm and clinical expertise and join a service who supports and invests in you?
Would you like to work with HPFT to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Main duties of the job
Should I Apply?
If you feel you meet the following criteria then we would like to hear from you:
- A qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
- Registered with the BABCP/BPS (or can provide evidence of application)
- Significant experience of working with people with mental health difficulties in a healthcare setting
- A commitment to equal opportunities
- Ability and access to an independent means of transport for business use
Where Will I Be Based?
You will be based in Braintree, Essex and will be part of an experienced and supportive team. This post is a hybrid-working role and there would be an expectation for the post holder to attend the office at least 2 days a week.
We are hoping to recruit a diverse cohort with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- 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
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
- Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential
- Advanced communication skills
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills, including telephone skills
- Computer literate
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training
- Ability to assess common mental health problems
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
DIVERSITY
Essential
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
PHYSICAL SKILLS/EFFORT
Essential
- Car driver with ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation
- Computer skills for entering clinical notes on electronic patient record
- Requirement to carry laptop/files between office base and remote working in line with all relevant HPFT policies
MENTAL/EMOTIONAL EFFORT
Essential
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to concentrate on clinical work and deliver therapy for most of the working day
- Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
- Ability to deal with patients with common mental health problems
- Ability to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients, patients and carers
GENERAL
Essential
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Welcoming / Kind / Positive / Respectful /Professional
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 01 March 2026
