Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

NHS; North East; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner in East Durham to provide psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions. This role involves collaborative care planning, working closely with a team of mental health professionals, and engaging sensitively with service users to improve their mental health outcomes. Candidates need relevant graduate or postgraduate training and demonstrate strong communication and planning skills.

Qualifications

• Either a graduate or postgraduate certificate delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners.
• Experience working with people with mental health needs through supervised practice.

Responsibilities

• Develop and practice psychologically informed interventions under supervision.
• Support collaborative care planning with the multidisciplinary team.
• Conduct risk assessments and risk management.

Skills

Clinical supervision use

Communication with multidisciplinary teams

Planning and delivering interventions

Education

Graduate certificate (Level 6) in Mental Health and Wellbeing

Postgraduate certificate (Level 7) in Mental Health and Wellbeing

Job description

Go back Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

The closing date is 10 July 2025

We have an exciting opportunity within East Durham community mental health team working with working age adults for a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work under close case management supervision from an HCPC registered applied psychologist or BABCP accredited CBT therapist to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions, with a level of autonomy matched to level of demonstrated competence and stage of training.

About us

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

We are committed to co-creating safe and personalised care that improves the lives of people by involving them as equal partners. The most important way we will get there is by living our values, all of the time.

Psychological Professions staff will be expected to display the Trust values at all times, working as part of the collective team with shared accountability and responsibility for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of patient care is delivered in a patient centred manner. They will also contribute to ensuring the culture of our services is built upon the Trust Values and the trust's strategy - Our Journey To change (OJTC).

We're also committed to co-creating a great experience for our colleagues- find out more about why you should come and work for us here Why choose TEWV? - Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust

We are committed to developing a team that is fully representative of the communities that we serve, and especially welcome applications from individuals with protected characteristics that are currently under-represented in our workforce.

Job responsibilities

The role of the Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner is to:

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 alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver a set of brief wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions:

Behavioural 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

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 set collaborative goals for intervention with service users.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Either 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 and Experience

• Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice

Skills

• Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
• Ability to liaise with with others, both internally and externally as required for the wellbeing of the service user.
• To assist in assessment, risk assessment and multi-disciplinary care plan.
• Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically-informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs

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