Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Trust located in Tees Valley is seeking a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner. This role involves delivering psychologically informed interventions for individuals with severe mental illness while working alongside service users and multi-disciplinary teams. The ideal candidate will have a graduate certificate in mental health, skills in planning interventions, and a commitment to collaborative care. Join a dedicated team to enhance mental health services in the region.

Qualifications

• Must have a graduate or postgraduate certificate in Mental Health and Wellbeing.
• Knowledge of working with mental health needs in a setting.
• Experience working as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside service users to co-ordinate care.
• Deliver wellbeing-focused interventions.
• Engage in collaborative decision-making regarding care.

Skills

Planning and delivering interventions

Education

Graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7)

Job description

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

The closing date is 12 December 2025

We're looking for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP) to work within the Darlington Community Mental Health Teams (Community HUB and Community Treatment & Intervention Team).

The MHWP will provide a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles for people with severe mental illness.

Main duties of the job

To work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to contribute to co-ordination of care, supporting collaborative decision‑making about care and treatment.

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.

To work under close case management supervision from a suitably qualified professional to provide high‑quality collaborative care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team. To work under close clinical skills supervision from a suitably qualified member of the MDT.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care – our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person Specification

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)

Knowledge

• Knowledge and experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice
• Working with complexity in a mental health setting.
• Understanding of clinical risk management in practice.

Skills

• Able to plan and deliver interventions with a variety of service users presenting with mental health difficulties, their families and carers and the clinical team, on a daily basis.

Experience

• Experience working as part of a team
• Experience of being supervised.
• Experience running groups/activities
• Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
• Experience around the role of the key worker.

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.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust