Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Employer Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Agile Working Town Bradford District Salary £31,049 – £37,796 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 17/11/2025 23:59

Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 5

Bradford District Care Trust is an award‑winning Trust that provides a range of innovative services that have been recognised as best practice nationally. As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high‑quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.

Job overview

We are eager to offer this new post to expand our innovative psychologically led Assessment and Therapy service workstream. This is a permanent full‑time vacancy open to qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP), and would encourage you to apply if you have experience working as a PWP. Post holders must hold relevant registration (i.e. BPS or BABCP) and qualification (PgCert in Low Intensity Psychological Interventions).

The West Yorkshire Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub is committed to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of all health and social care professionals and volunteers. We offer a range of services designed to promote resilience, reduce stress, and enhance the overall wellbeing of our dedicated staff. This support doesn’t stop at service users, we are also committed to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of our employees. As a team we support all new employees to settle into the role and provide a comprehensive 3‑week induction period. We also offer a range of exciting working opportunities including flexible working, CPD and access to Psychology Tools.

Working remotely your role as a PWP will be to provide evidence‑based low‑intensity interventions, supporting the triage, rapid and clinical risk assessment with clients, with opportunities to support in‑service development as well as working in an environment that fosters personal development.

Interview date: 26/11/25

Main duties of the job

As part of the West Yorkshire Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub Therapy service you will support with the MDT triage of clients referring into the service, conduct initial client contact calls following triage to update clients and gather further information to support their assessment. This post is not within a NHS Talking Therapies service.

This is a hybrid role with most duties being carried out from home including virtual groups but with frequent travel across the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership footprint to attend engagement/promotional meetings as well as in‑person team meetings.

As a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner we would expect you to provide brief clinical risk and assessment, formulation and brief psychological interventions for people presenting with common mental health problems, including group and individual modalities.

Using a range of brief psychological interventions, wellbeing practitioner will empower clients to manage distress and crisis effectively.

Working for our organisation

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: We Care – We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference, We Listen – We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs, We Deliver – We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners.

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives. Staff are supported by a fantastic range of benefits including:

• Increase mileage rates for journeys over 3500 miles
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• Internal and external development and learning opportunities
• And many more.

We are proud to hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. Bradford District Care Trust is also committed to environmental and social sustainability, actively encouraging staff participation in training and sustainable quality improvement.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Qualification in Low Intensity CBT interventions, from an accredited course with the BPS.

Skills

• Experience delivering psychological therapies to groups of patients.

Experience

• Experience in relevant area of mental health practice.

Knowledge

• Assessment, planning, formulation and evaluation of patient’s psychological difficulties.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. Those requiring a visa should be aware that the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only.

Name Catherine English – Senior Psychological Therapist – Email: catherine.english@bdct.nhs.uk. For application enquiries, email: catherine.anderson@bdct.nhs.uk.