Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust; Teddington; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Teddington is seeking a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to deliver psychological interventions for adults facing severe mental health challenges. The role involves assessments, developing care plans, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to support service users throughout their recovery journey. Applicants must hold relevant qualifications. This position offers flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Career development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Ability to conduct risk assessments and manage risks with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Commitment to MDT working and advancing trauma-informed care.
• Experience with collaborative decision-making in care.

Responsibilities

• Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management.
• Engage with service users in distressing circumstances.
• Develop collaborative care plans with service users and families.

Skills

Empathy

Collaborative goal setting

Risk assessment

Education

Graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate in Mental Health and Wellbeing

Job description

Overview

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

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. In doing so, we will be strengthening relationships with primary care and developing 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.

Responsibilities

• Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team
• Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.
• Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation.
• 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.
• 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.
• To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users
• To be responsive to service users’ needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.
• To include carers and families in line with the service user’s wishes.
• To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.
• 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.
• To develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention
• To deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families and carers.

Qualifications and Requirements

We are only accepting applications from candidates with an existing qualification of “A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)”.

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.

Flexible Working and About the Trust

Flexible working: 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.

The Trust is committed to supporting flexible working, including a blended approach of on-site and home working.

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.

Additional Information

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 user’s 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 develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention

12. To deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families and carers.

This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Sep 2025