Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest providers of Talking Therapies services in the country. We are currently seeking to recruit our next cohort of Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, who will qualify within one year and go on to join our service in substantive roles.
This is a particularly positive time to join us, following contract renewal, as the service moves to a data-led, Place-based model, taking provision closer to the local population that it serves while developing an already broad portfolio of clinical specialisms, including perinatal, trauma and long-term conditions. Recent innovations have included the implementation of SilverCloud, implementing a self-referral Chat-bot and the production of a short film for new fathers.
Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies is research active and is working closely with the University of East Anglia, as a research partner as we build our portfolio of projects. Our current training provider for this course is University of Essex. We are also working with local acute healthcare providers to this end, embedding our therapeutic staff within wider systems of health. The service has excellent access to ongoing training and specialist supervision.
We are committed to quality through external scrutiny and have recently joined the Accreditation Programme for Psychological Therapies (APPTS), part of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, College Centre for Quality Improvement assurance programme.
Main duties of the job
Our psychological therapies are delivered face to face, as well as online and by telephone, depending upon the needs of service users. Though hybrid working is part of the role, all staff are expected to attend team hubs and other delivery sites to work with colleagues and see people as required, and to participate in a range of training and service activities. For clinical delivery at Step 2 it is expected that a minimum of 3 days will be delivered face-to-face.
All staff are expected to participate in regular clinical supervision to ensure the quality of delivery and maintain professional development and wellbeing.
It is an expectation that staff will contribute to the ongoing programme of development and improvement, including clinical audit, service evaluation and personal performance appraisal.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- (Post Graduate training Route): Applicants must hold a degree or higher qualification.
- Or (Undergraduate Training Route): Applicants must have a minimum one year of relevant care experience (such as care worker, support worker, healthcare assistant, healthcare administration, Support, Time & Recovery workers etc.) and be able to demonstrate an ability to have worked at the standards of academic Level 5
Skills
Essential
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Ability to function well as part of a multi – disciplinary team.
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how these may present in Primary Care
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.
Other
Essential
- Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
- Ability and willingness to travel to locations in the community, as part of the PWP role.
- Residential Status in UK allows recourse to public funds
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem.
- Experience of delivering interventions to people with Mental Health issues.
- Experience of evaluation of the outcomes of interventions used in role. Ability to manage own caseload and time.
Desirable
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
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 June 2026
