Band 6 Emotional Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

NHS; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is looking for a Band 6 Emotional Health & Wellbeing Practitioner. This role involves providing mental health support to children and young people across the Black Country. The successful candidate will have relevant qualifications, strong communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with educational and health agencies. Experience in a community and educational environment is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience of working therapeutically with children or young people.
• Able to travel across the Black Country when service needs arise.
• Experience of working in community or educational settings.

Responsibilities

• Conduct in-depth mental health assessments including risk assessments.
• Provide support, advice, and consultation to families and professionals.
• Manage partnership working with educational settings and local authorities.

Education

Core professional qualification relevant to mental health

Experience in counselling or delivering mental health interventions

CYP IAPT low intensity supervisor training

Job description

Go back Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Band 6 Emotional Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

The closing date is 08 October 2025

1 WTE to be based across Dudley & Sandwell

1 WTE to be based across Walsall & Wolverhampton

Please Note: These posts are suitable for any person holding a professional registration relevant to Mental Health and has experience of working with children and young people therapeutically.

We have an exciting opportunity for two experienced Mental Health Practitioners to be part of the Children\'s and Young People\'s Mental Health Support Teams (Reflexions) across the Black Country.

Overview

The Reflexions team can provide the opportunity to further develop work within the field of young people\'s mental health and wellbeing with a focus on development of whole school approaches to mental health and wellbeing and the development of the think family approaches within the schools environment. The mental health support teams provide individual interventions, guided self-help, parenting and whole school approaches. Working with parents/carers and teaching staff is also part of the service offer.

About us

The post holder will be knowledgeable and experienced in mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and will be expected to carry out in-depth mental health assessments including risk assessments where required. The postholder will also need to be the link worker between the team and the educational settings to ensure that children and young people receive the most appropriate care and interventions and well as being experienced in multi-agency working. Support, advice and consultation to families/carers and other professionals involved in the life of the child/young person will also need to be provided.

The post holder will work in partnership with the Reflexions leadership team to further develop the partnership working that is currently taking place between Education, Local Authority and other external agencies.

Applicants should be experienced in mental health at a senior level with the required clinical skills to support the Mental Health Support Team. Experience of recent working with schools and delivering mental health promotional collaborative work in such an arena is vital in order to be able to fulfill the role.

Job responsibilities

Knowledge and passion around reducing health inequalities and increasing access to mental health support is vital in this role. Applicants must have excellent communication skills and be able to network with other agencies such as Public Health, Clinical Commissioning Groups and Local Authorities amongst others as and when required. It is beneficial for applicants to have experience of managing staff. This post is subject to an enhanced with childrens and adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

For further details please contact:

Zoe Gilbert, Service Manager for Mental Health Support Teams In Schools (Reflexions) on [e-mail].

Person Specification

Criteria

• Core professional qualification relevant to mental health e.g. nursing with specialism, in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work
• Experience of continued professional development or skills based training in counselling or delivering mental health interventions in young people to support emotional health and wellbeing up to degree of equivalent level
• CYP IAPT low intensity supervisor training or willing to undertake this training
• Significant and relevant experience of working therapeutically with children or young people with emerging mental health needs
• Able to travel across the Black Country when service needs
• Experience of working in a community environment
• Experience of working in educational settings

Criteria

• Must be able to travel across the Black Country with ease

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.

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust