Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust; Teddington; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Teddington is seeking a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to deliver evidence-based psychological interventions for clients facing severe mental health challenges. This role emphasizes collaboration within a multi-disciplinary team, providing empathetic care and support to service users and their families. Qualified practitioners with relevant certificates are encouraged to apply. The position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to contribute to transformative community care initiatives.

Benefits

Flexible working

Career development

Supportive environment

Qualifications

• Experience working with people with mental health needs gained through relevant training.
• Experience running groups and activities.
• Ability to communicate complex information verbally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Carry out risk assessments with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Engage with service users in distress.
• Develop care plans focused on strengths and outcomes.

Skills

Empathy

Team working

Communication

Education

Graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) in Mental Health and Wellbeing

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join the Twickenham Integrated Recovery Hub (IRH). The Twickenham IRH provides secondary mental health care for adults experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties.

Please note: this post is for qualified MHWPs with a graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health).

Closing date: 04 February 2026

We are preparing to implement the trust's community transformation plans in line with the Community Mental Health Framework to improve access and provision for clients with severe mental health difficulties. We will strengthen relationships with primary care and develop new links with the voluntary sector.

This is an exciting opportunity for an MHWP graduate to deliver a set of wellbeing-focused, psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.

Main duties of the job

1. The successful applicant will be committed to MDT working and to advancing trauma informed care across the trust. You will work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment. You will deliver a set of wellbeing-focused, psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.
2. As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible and agile working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.
3. The Trust is committed to supporting flexible working, including a blended approach of on-site and home working.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as "good" - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services, including Tolworth Hospital, as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Job responsibilities

1. Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team
2. Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.
3. Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation.
4. To work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.
5. To attend multi-disciplinary reviews and act as a care co-ordinator, for a caseload of service users in order to support and monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
6. To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users
7. To be responsive to service users needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.
8. To include carers and families in line with the service users wishes.
9. To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.
10. To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and care plans of service users in a skilled and sensitive manner in order to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients.
11. To deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families and carers.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

• A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)
• Any training relevant to the service user group

Experience

• Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice
• Experience running groups/activities
• Experience working as part of a team
• Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
• Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties

Knowledge & Skills

• Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers
• Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality
• Able to communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance
• Commitment to team working and ability to work successfully in a team
• Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
• Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health

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.

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

£35,763 to £43,466 a year inclusive of outer London HCAS