Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, Manager

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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👔 Manager

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Spectrum.Life

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51 - 200 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💰 Series A on 2023-02

Healthcare • Consulting • Food & Beverage

Spectrum. Life is a digital health company providing a comprehensive platform for health and wellbeing. They offer services for digital health, mental health, and wellbeing, targeting members, employees, and students through customisable engagement platforms. Spectrum. Life acts as a whole-of-health partner for large organisations in the UK, Ireland, and internationally, focusing on transformative digital health experiences. Their offerings include mental health support through digital platforms and apps, workplace wellness solutions, and health education. The company collaborates with health systems and businesses to deliver accessible and customizable care solutions aimed at engaging, empowering, and transforming individual lives.

📋 Description

• Provide integrated clinical and operational leadership to a team of Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners • Deliver NHS Talking Therapies Step 2 low-intensity CBT interventions within Spectrum.Life • Provide weekly group case management meetings, with each PWP receiving a minimum of one hour of supervision per week • Provide individual clinical supervision proportionate to each PWP's experience and caseload risk • Review active cases, outcome data, risk and safety planning, and treatment fidelity during supervision • Maintain accurate supervision records in line with BABCP and NHS Talking Therapies requirements • Act as the named clinical contact for active risk cases and support PWPs in real time • Ensure risk escalation pathways are applied, including step-up to Step 3, safeguarding, and emergency response • Review and co-sign risk management plans for high-risk Step 2 cases • Act as designated safeguarding lead for the PWP team • Oversee PWP practice and address scope drift • Monitor outcome data and use it for supervision and quality improvement • Identify CPD needs and develop personal development plans • Support newly qualified PWPs during consolidation with increased supervision • Facilitate peer learning, reflective practice sessions, and skills workshops • Manage team performance against NHS Talking Therapies access and quality indicators • Monitor caseload capacity and distribute referrals equitably • Contribute to operational and clinical governance performance reporting • Manage recruitment, induction, sickness absence, annual leave, and performance management • Conduct annual appraisals integrating clinical and operational goals • Manage rotas and resource allocation • Potentially line-manage counsellors, high-intensity CBT therapists, and psychologists • Ensure compliance with GDPR, NHS Information Governance, and Spectrum.Life clinical governance frameworks • Contribute to clinical audit, service evaluation, and quality improvement • Act as primary operational contact for commissioners, referrers, and partner agencies • Collaborate with the wider clinical team on step-up and step-down processes

🎯 Requirements

• BABCP accreditation as a PWP or BABCP accreditation as a High Intensity CBT therapist • Formal training in low intensity CBT interventions, including guided self-help, behavioural activation, worry management, structured problem solving, and/or sleep restriction • Completion of a recognised PWP Supervisor Training Programme (NHS Talking Therapies-aligned) • Where degree-level entry: minimum undergraduate degree (2:1 or above) or equivalent professional experience • Minimum 3 years post-qualification experience as a practising PWP across the full Step 2 range; or for BABCP-accredited HI CBT therapist applicants, minimum 2 years direct experience delivering low intensity CBT interventions within an NHS Talking Therapies Step 2 service • Minimum 12 months experience providing clinical supervision or case management to PWPs, either formally or informally • Demonstrable experience of managing clinical risk at Step 2 and working within stepped care escalation pathways • Experience of working within an NHS Talking Therapies or equivalent IAPT-compliant service, with working knowledge of IAPT-standard outcome measures and data requirements • Experience of managing caseloads, supervising others' caseloads, or contributing to service performance management • Expert-level knowledge of the NHS Talking Therapies Manual (2023) and stepped care model • Strong working knowledge of NICE guidelines relevant to common mental health conditions (CG90/CG91, CG113, NG116) and their application at Step 2 • Knowledge of BABCP accreditation standards for PWPs and PWP supervisors • Competency in delivering and overseeing the full range of NICE-recommended low-intensity CBT interventions • Ability to conduct and oversee robust clinical risk assessments, including suicide and self-harm risk, and to support others in doing so • Strong communication skills — ability to translate clinical complexity into operationally actionable information and vice versa • Competency in using outcome monitoring data (PHQ-9, GAD-7, WSAS) to inform clinical supervision and service quality improvement • Working knowledge of NHS information governance, safeguarding legislation, and clinical governance frameworks • Desirable: Experience in a formal management or senior clinical role within an NHS Talking Therapies Step 2 or stepped care service • Desirable: Completed BABCP PWP Supervisor Accreditation • Desirable: Knowledge of digital and telephone-based delivery models for low-intensity interventions • Desirable: Experience contributing to workforce development, training design, or competency-based assessment frameworks • Desirable: Familiarity with NHS Talking Therapies data reporting tools • Desirable: Experience working in a third sector, independent sector, or commissioned NHS Talking Therapies service

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary (Dependent on experience) • Remote Working • 25 days annual leave • 24/7 EAP and a wide range of health and wellbeing support • The opportunity to work in a strengths based and inclusive way and contribute to a bigger shift in changing societal attitudes towards mental health and wellbeing • Remote Supervision • Opportunities to develop your skills and expertise through learning and training • The chance to contribute to the development and shaping of a new and exciting service • Extensive list of employee perks and benefits • Weekly individual clinical case management supervision meeting, minimum one hour, aligned to NHS Talking Therapies Manual requirements • Structured CPD programme with protected time for professional development and BABCP / BPS registration maintenance • Technology that works with you; digital infrastructure designed to support clinical delivery and reduce administrative burden • Clear stepped care governance with no ambiguity about your scope of practice • A team led by clinical leaders with deep NHS Talking Therapies and IAPT experience • Opportunity to help shape a new model of evidence-based EAP care that could influence how low-intensity therapy is delivered at scale