Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Home or remote working
- Posted
- 11/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
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Role summary
Touchstone, a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity, is seeking a permanent, full-time Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner. This role involves delivering evidence-based psychological interventions within the Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service. The successful candidate will contribute to the innovation and success of the established talking therapies service, working with individuals and groups. This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified PWP to join a supportive team.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate the ability to recognise the signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression and how these conditions may present themselves in Primary Care.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health.
- Knowledge and ability to deliver High Volume Low Intensity evidenced based interventions in groups or to individuals referred to the service in line with IAPT prescribed protocols .
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.
- Knowledge of medication used for anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
- Demonstrates a sound knowledge of IAPT services/outcome measures and the stepped care model.
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
- Good level of ICT skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven ability to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Experience of carrying out risk assessments within scope of practice.
- Ability to manage own caseload and excellent time management skills.
- Effective decision making skills.
- Persona Disposition
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Ability to work with a team ethos coordinating Telephone Screening hub and psycho-educational classes and foster good working relationships with staff.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
- Ability to be self reflective whilst working with colleagues and service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
- To work flexibly within and outside office hours.
- Reliable and resilient.
- Commitment to Touchstones aims and values.
- Commitment to respecting diversity and anti-discriminatory/anti-oppressive practices.
- Willing to be managed and supervised.
Desirable criteria
- Fluent in languages other than English.
- Equal Opportunities
- Must be able to recognise discrimination in its many forms and be willing to put into practice the partnership employing organisations Equality Policies.
- Must demonstrate sensitivity to the needs of disadvantaged groups in the planning and delivery of mental health services.
- A commitment to provide high quality services to the diverse communities of Leeds.
- Post Graduate Certificate in evidence based psychological treatments (IAPT Pathways) or equivalent.
- Supervision training in IAPT (LI) pathways from an accredited university OR nearing completion of this supervision training.
- Minimum 1 year of post PWP qualification experience within an IAPT service.
- Evidence working with people who have experienced a mental health problem with positive outcomes.
- Experience working in Primary Care Services.
- Experience working in a service where agreed targets are in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.
- Evidence of supporting service development role and the ability to co-ordinate service delivery.
- Evidence of delivering effective case management and/or clinical supervision.
- Effective line management to staff and/or trainees, volunteers.
- Demonstrate the ability to recognise the signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression and how these conditions may present themselves in Primary Care.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health.
- Knowledge and ability to deliver High Volume Low Intensity evidenced based interventions in groups or to individuals referred to the service in line with IAPT prescribed protocols .
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.
- Knowledge of medication used for anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems.
- Demonstrates a sound knowledge of IAPT services/outcome measures and the stepped care model.
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
- Good level of ICT skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven ability to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Experience of carrying out risk assessments within scope of practice.
- Ability to manage own caseload and excellent time management skills.
- Effective decision making skills.
- Persona Disposition
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Ability to work with a team ethos coordinating Telephone Screening hub and psycho-educational classes and foster good working relationships with staff.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
- Ability to be self reflective whilst working with colleagues and service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
- To work flexibly within and outside office hours.
- Reliable and resilient.
- Commitment to Touchstones aims and values.
- Commitment to respecting diversity and anti-discriminatory/anti-oppressive practices.
- Willing to be managed and supervised.
- Fluent in languages other than English.
- Equal Opportunities
- Must be able to recognise discrimination in its many forms and be willing to put into practice the partnership employing organisations Equality Policies.
- Must demonstrate sensitivity to the needs of disadvantaged groups in the planning and delivery of mental health services.
- A commitment to provide high quality services to the diverse communities of Leeds.
- Post Graduate Certificate in evidence based psychological treatments (IAPT Pathways) or equivalent.
- Supervision training in IAPT (LI) pathways from an accredited university OR nearing completion of this supervision training.
- Minimum 1 year of post PWP qualification experience within an IAPT service.
- Evidence working with people who have experienced a
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Job summary
Touchstone
is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in
communities across Yorkshire. Touchstone understands that we can only deliver
excellence to the people we serve if the people we recruit are happy,
empowered, supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.
Main duties of the job
_If you do not hold the relevant qualification for the post (i.e. PGCert in an IAPT approved course for low intensity psychological interventions) applications will not be accepted._
Touchstone is a partner within Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service. The service offers a range of evidence-based psychological interventions both at step 2 and step 3 as proposed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance.
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the team for one permanent and full-time Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join and contribute to the innovation and success of our well-established talking therapies service.
Information session via TEAMS on Tuesday 18th August 2026 at 12pm. Please email [email removed] for a link to join
About us
Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, an equal rights
employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community,
particularly, BME and LGB and Trans communities and/or people with disabilities
who are under-represented within Touchstone. A
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