Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner in Darwen

Are you ready to bring your passion, personality, creativity, and clinical expertise to a role that makes a real difference? Are you looking for a team who supports, celebrates, and invests in you? Are you keen to champion patient care, clinical excellence, and service development? If so, Vita Health Group is the place for you.

Hello, we are Vita Health Group West Essex. We are the lead provider of NHS Talking Therapies in the West Essex footprint, providing vital mental health support to clients aged 16 and above. We are super proud of the work we do at Step 2 and see the life-changing impact of our practice every single day.

We really do practice what we preach here at Vita, with a company-wide focus on staff wellbeing, a flexible and creative approach to work, and a real culture of openness and support. We love to see our colleagues thrive and achieve their personal goals, so we place a real emphasis on quality supervision, rich CPD, and encouraging our PWPs to take on leadership roles and training opportunities.

The successful PWP will be supporting the delivery of a 10-week course combining Talking Therapies with guided physical activity, designed for patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) experiencing low mood. This will be delivered jointly by a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) and a Health & Wellbeing Coach, ensuring both psychological and physical health support are embedded into treatment. The course will aim to build confidence, routine, and sustainable lifestyle change in a safe, supported environment. It will provide patients with practical tools to self-manage their condition beyond the course, reducing longer-term reliance on health services. This role will be working alongside the LTC lead and health and wellbeing team to offer Get Active for Low Mood webinars (GAFLM) for clients with long-term health conditions.

As a qualified PWP, you have a vital role to play in the service we provide to our clients. Using your clinical expertise, you will assess the suitability of new referrals through telephone assessments and provide short-term, low-intensity interventions via telephone, online webinars, and computerised CBT (cCBT). Where needed, you will work closely with colleagues at Steps 3 and 4, and external services, to support safe onward referrals and step-ups, at all times maintaining and advocating for patient dignity, confidentiality, and inclusivity.

Each PWP brings their own unique skills, background, and experiences to their practice. Alongside this, we are also looking for:

• A Graduate/Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) in Low Intensity Interventions (Adults)
• BABCP or BPS registration or pending registration
• Experience of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem.

If this sounds like the right fit for you, we look forward to welcoming you to the team.

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do. Now part of Spire Healthcare Group plc, we have been providing physical and mental health services for over 30 years. We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UK's largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

To achieve our mission of Making People Better, we recognise the importance of investing in our staff. We are an award-winning employer recently recognised nationally as 'Best Company to Work for' at the Health and Wellbeing Awards 2024. This is also recognised by current employees – our most recent Employee Survey results showed the top 5 reasons to work here as being:

• Supportive team and management
• Positive work environment
• Wellbeing and mental health support
• Trust and respect
• Autonomy and flexibility

We are keen to progress your skills and enable career development and provide regular Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme, apprenticeships, and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer the opportunity of a flexible work-life balance and a comprehensive benefits package.

Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and is seeking to improve the diversity of its workforce. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion best practice and positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.

We are committed to being equitable and supporting the wellbeing of all employees. We are a Mindful Employer and a Disability Confident Leader dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. All disabled candidates that meet the minimum essential criteria will be considered for interview.

Our Ethnicity Matters Scheme ensures that all applicants for senior roles (£40,000) from a minority ethnic group that meet the essential criteria will be considered for interview. Our Gender Matters Scheme ensures that all women applicants for senior roles (£60,000) that meet the essential criteria will be considered for interview.

We are committed to meeting the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS), Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES). Access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues includes Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.

Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you need in the application or interview process please contact us and we will facilitate.

Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check. Any data which you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months.

Vita Health Group reserves the right to close this job when sufficient applications have been received.