Senior Wellbeing Practitioner

TN United Kingdom; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 4,000 - 6,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to providing exceptional mental health care. As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will support pregnant women and their families during a critical period of development. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact while working in a supportive environment that values diversity and employee well-being. With comprehensive training and a commitment to your professional growth, this position is ideal for those passionate about mental health and community care. Embrace the chance to contribute to a compassionate culture and enhance the lives of those you serve.

Benefits

Flexible Working Opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Health and Wellbeing Support

Training and Development Opportunities

High Cost Area Supplement

Qualifications

• Qualified RMN with experience in mental health settings.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams and safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health interventions to pregnant women and their partners.
• Collaborate with multiagency colleagues for safety networks.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Mental Health Interventions

Community Work Experience

IT Skills

Education

RMN Registration

Teaching Qualification

NVQ Level 2

Job description

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05.05.2025

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19.06.2025

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Job Description:

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

The Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service is a specialist multi-disciplinary service in NELFT NHS Foundation Trust. The team has developed assessment, treatment interventions and seamless care pathways for women who have mental ill health in the perinatal period. The service is essential as the perinatal period is a critical time of development for a baby and the baby’s parents and siblings. It can also be a time of accentuated risk

The Service provides assessment, treatment interventions and seamless care pathways for women experiencing mental ill health during the Perinatal period, up to a year postnatally. The Service works closely with Maternity Services, Adult Community Recovery Teams, Home Treatment Teams, Adult Psychological Services, Primary Care Services and Social Services within the four boroughs.

As well as offering direct clinical interventions, the team is establishing expert consultancy and support and supervision frameworks for a range of professionals across all tiers of intervention in the statutory and non-statutory sectors locally.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a qualified RMN to provide mental health interventions to pregnant women and/or their partners/significant others.

As a member of the multidisciplinary Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service, the post holder will work constructively with colleagues to ensure a carefully planned ‘safety network’ of care is available for parents and babies. The post holder will work collaboratively with multiagency colleagues to ensure a carefully planned ‘safety network’ of care is available for parents and babies.

You must have post qualification experience within a mental health setting and experience of working in the community as a qualified Practitioner; and working with Safeguarding children cases.

Experience of working in the Perinatal Mental Health field is desirable, and/or a keen interest in this specialist area. An Awareness of Antenatal and postnatal Nice Guidelines is also desirable

Working for our organisation

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement – London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of basic salary, with a minimum of £4,551 and maximum of £5,735, pro rata for part time staff

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
• RMN, RGN, RNLD, Registration with relevant professional body
• Teaching qualification or other specific job related post-registration qualification (eg Mentoring and Enabling Learning in Practice, ENB-998 or equivalent)

Experience

• Working with adults who have complex mental health needs
• To have experience in working/liaising with multi-disciplinary teams, internal and external agencies in the provision of care
• Ability to work under pressure, quickly and effectively, making timely clinical decisions in conjunction with the MDT
• Ability to work both independently and as part of the team
• awareness of perinatal/postnatal concerns

Skills

• Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
• Well-developed interpersonal skills, especially the ability to engage with service users and significant others in busy/high pressure environments

knowledge

• Understanding of contemporary evidence based ‘best practice
• Understanding the Health & Social Care Act and its application
• Understanding of NICE antenatal/postnatal CQC and DoH guidance

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.