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?

Then please read on...

Mid Essex Talking Therapies are hiring for QUALIFIED PWPs to join our team!

Please note, this vacancy may close early once the required number of applications have been received

Please note that HPFT is contracted to provide the Mid Essex Talking Therapies service until 31 March 2027, after which a different provider will assume responsibility for delivering the service. This advertised job role is a permanent position and the role itself is expected to continue beyond this date. Any transfer of staff to the incoming provider would be subject to the applicable TUPE regulations and formal consultation processes.

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.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Details
Date posted
07 August 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043 a year
per annum, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
367-ACMS-101472
Job locations
Tekhnicon House, Springwood Drive, Braintree, CM7 2YN
Springwood Drive
Braintree
CM7 2YN
United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities

Mid Essex Talking Therapies are a dynamic and innovative team. We actively encourage people to specialise in projects, alongside their core work. If you are looking for an exciting new job, then we are the people to come to.

At present the service uses telephone and video conferencing, as well as online methods of communication, to support patients to access and engage with treatment. There would be an expectation for the post holder to attend the office at least 2 days a week which is essential as we pride ourselves on having a strong, cohesive team, and we would expect the successful postholder to be integrated fully with our other PWPs.

PWPs work alongside High intensity therapists to support a variety of step 3 groups. The PWPs also promote the service with stress workshops, mental health training, and attending conferences and GP days. If successful you will also be working with other professionals to offer a service to people with various long term conditions.

A full internal CPD programme is on offer to all our staff, which runs throughout the year. See job description and person specification for details.

For full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached.

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 (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
• 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer.