Primary care mental health practitioners work with our GP colleagues and offer mental health assessments, brief treatments and onward signposting advice to patients within a primary care setting.

Psychological wellbeing practitioners provide high quality primary care Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services to adults with mild to moderate mental health problems using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based, self-management interventions to clients with mild to moderate anxiety and depression.

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Cognitive behavioural therapists work as members of the IAPT service providing a high quality, specialist psychological therapy service to clients within the stepped model of care. They provide high intensity interventions to clients who have a range of complex anxiety and depression related problems.

Counsellors in IAPT have to have a minimum two-year post-graduate (or equivalent) qualification in psychotherapy, counselling, or counselling psychology. Comprising no less than 450 hours programme contact and including no less than 200 hours supervised counselling practice and work as a member of the IAPT service providing a high quality, specialist psychological therapy service to clients within the stepped model of care.

Our leadership team is made up of staff in clinical and non-clinical roles. Roles include overall clinical leadership for the service or for the 3 geographical areas we cover, as well as clinical & operational leadership for particular therapies or projects.

Our administration team are a vital part of our service. We have a wide variety of operational support roles such as team secretaries. Our administration team help provide assistance to our clinical teams and to people who access the service.