Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization in the UK is seeking Qualified Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners to join its Lambeth Living Well Centres team. The role involves working with adults experiencing severe mental health issues, creating and implementing wellbeing-centered interventions under supervision, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality care. Candidates must demonstrate strong communication and relationship-building skills suitable for supporting distressed adults and their families.

Benefits

Commitment to diversity and equality

Support for candidates with disabilities

Qualifications

• Experience working as part of a team delivering psychological interventions.
• Ability to establish empathic relationships with distressed individuals.
• Experience in collaborative care planning with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop psychologically-informed interventions under supervision.
• Support care planning alongside other mental health professionals.
• Deliver brief wellbeing-focused interventions like behavioral activation.

Skills

Experience interacting with the public

Analyzing complex information

Empathic communication

Delivering wellbeing-focused interventions

Job description

Overview

We are looking for highly motivated individuals to join our team as Qualified Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners with Secondary Care Psychological Therapies and our Lambeth Living Well Centres. This role supports the transformation of adult community mental health services and aims to ensure adults with severe mental health problems have greater access to psychologically informed interventions.

You will work under supervision as part of a dynamic mental health team, delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting adults to receive the right care. You will need flexibility, adaptability and a passion for working with adults with severe mental health problems. As a qualified MHWP you will continue to develop knowledge and practice skills to employ wellbeing‑focused psychologically informed interventions for serious mental health problems for adults individually and in groups, as well as support their families and carers, in line with education providers’ expectations.

You will take a lead role in integrated work within our Living Well Centres, including joint formulation, training and consultation. You will hold an individual guided self‑help caseload within the Living Well Centre team and a separate role within SCPT in the first tier of our Complex Emotional Needs pathway.

Responsibilities

• Develop and practice psychologically‑informed interventions under supervision, working directly with adults in the community.
• Support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi‑disciplinary team.
• Work closely with a team of mental health professionals to deliver brief wellbeing‑focused psychologically informed interventions (not therapy), for example: Behavioral Activation and Graded Exposure using the GOALS programme; Problem‑solving; Improving sleep; Recognising and managing emotions; Guided self‑help for bulimia and binge‑eating; Confidence building; Support with medicines management.
• Deliver a set of wellbeing‑focused psychologically‑informed interventions aligned to cognitive‑behavioural principles, based on the best available evidence, addressing problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.

Qualifications and Practice

• Have experience of interacting with the public, working as part of a team, analysing complex information and communicating effectively.
• Demonstrate the ability to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress, their families and carers.
• Work within the limits of experience and assessed competence; co‑ordinate care with service users, families, carers and MDT members; support collaborative decision‑making about care and treatment.
• Deliver wellbeing‑focused psychologically‑informed interventions, aligned to CBT principles, with supervision from appropriately qualified professionals to provide high‑quality collaborative care planning.
• Be prepared to operate with a level of autonomy matched to demonstrated competence and receive appropriate supervision (e.g., HCPC registered clinician, BABCP accredited CBT therapist, or Senior MHWP).

About the Trust and Living Well Network

The South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust is part of King’s Health Partners AHSC and provides mental health services to Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Croydon and some services to other areas. We are part of the Lambeth Living Well Network (LWN) Alliance with SLAM NHS leading/co‑ordination of services for those experiencing mental health issues in Lambeth.

The Trust is committed to diversity, equality of opportunity and is a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applicants from all protected characteristics and provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability. We aim to embed our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity in everyday practice.

Additional Information

Please note: all applications must be made online. Read and understand the Job Description and Person Specification; your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements. The closing date is a guide and the vacancy may close earlier if sufficient applications are received. By submitting your application you agree to its transfer to an external e‑recruitment system. If you have not heard within three weeks from the closing date, your application has not been successful. Priority consideration may be given to at‑risk NHS employees. If successful, you may be subject to an Inter Authority Transfer. We are a smoke‑free Trust. SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental illness.