Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join the innovative Blackburn with Darwen Trailblazer Programme, a nationally recognised initiative designed to transform the way mental health support is delivered in our community.
The Trailblazer is a unique collaboration between Sport England, Blackburn with Darwen Council Health and Wellbeing Service, University College London, and Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Talking Therapies (NHS TT). Together we will deliver an innovative intervention model that integrates evidence-based psychological therapy with structured physical activity to support improved mental and physical wellbeing.
As a Senior PWP, you will play a pivotal role in delivering this ground-breaking programme. You will work closely with established partners, including the Borough Council’s Health and Wellbeing Service and the Social Prescribing Team, contributing your expertise to ensure high quality, person centred group interventions.
This programme is funded to run from 2026 until March 2028, offering an exciting opportunity to influence service development, support innovation, and make a meaningful difference to the wellbeing of local communities.
Key Responsibilities
- To provide a high quality Talking Therapies service to people aged 16 or over with common mental health problems including those with a degree of complexity.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of Trust and local policies and procedure.
- To provide high quality clinical supervision and mentoring to PWPs including trainees supported by the regular integration of caseload management principles within clinical supervision provision.
- To deliver and support the delivery of a Talking Therapies service in accordance with NICE guidelines, to meet key performance indicators and agreed activity levels.
- To provide advice and consultation on clients’ care, to other colleagues and non-professional carers.
- To utilise research skills to support audit, service development and research within the areas served by the team.
- To work with and support the team lead and Service Manager in actively managing waiting lists
- To promote wellbeing and social inclusion.
- To work flexibly and in accordance with service demands.
- To work to the agreed number of clinical contacts per week as set by the Team Lead.
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Diversity and Inclusion
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
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Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
Flexible Working
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
Wellbeing Support
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Emma Hepworth
- Job title: Team Manager
- Email address: Emma.Hepworth@lscft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01254 226037
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