Senior Wellbeing Practitioner | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization is looking for an enthusiastic Senior Wellbeing Practitioner in London. The role involves managing caseloads for children with mental health difficulties, planning school activities, and providing clinical supervision. Candidates should have at least two years of EMHP experience and a passion for mental health in schools. This is a fixed-term contract covering annual leave.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable clinical experience in mental health support.
• Passionate about mental health in educational settings.
• Ability to work flexibly across various education providers.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload for children and young people with mental health difficulties.
• Plan whole school activities related to mental health and wellbeing.
• Provide clinical supervision to EMHPs within the service.

Skills

Mental health support in schools

Clinical experience

Case management

Assessment and intervention

Communication skills

Education

Qualified SWP

EMHP experience (2+ years)

Job description

Overview

Bexley MHST seeks to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who is passionate about mental health support in schools, with a demonstrable track record of MHST clinical experience. This is a fixed term contract to cover the existing staff member's annual leave. This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified SWP, who has at least two year’s post qualification experience as an EMHP, to build their experience as a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner (SWP) within a highly supportive, creative and dynamic team with the Bexley Mental Health Support Team.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the Bexley MHST team to manage a defined caseload with a focus on providing focused assessment and evidence-based intervention for children and young people (CYP) with mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their parents/carers.
• Plan and deliver whole school activities, as part of a school’s whole school/college approach to mental health and wellbeing.
• Provide advice and guided signposting to education settings.
• Provide Case Management and Clinical Supervision to qualified and/or trainee EMHPs within the service.
• Be able to work flexibly across a range of education providers.
• Promote the participation of children, young people, families, carers and the wider school community.
• Promote equity, diversity and inclusion within their own role, the MHST and school communities, contributing to enabling other staff, children, young people, families, carers and the wider school community from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

About Oxleas and Our Values

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Additional Responsibilities

• Work as part of the team to manage current care plans, progress, mental state, and psychosocial factors in line with best practice; inform/update colleagues and service users as necessary.
• Liaise with and advise CYP and families, schools, local authorities and other statutory bodies and third sector agencies including safeguarding as necessary.
• Communicate sensitive information to carers and relatives. Use a range of communication styles and channels as appropriate.
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate.
• Maintain accurate written records on the electronic record system of the service.
• Undertake assessments, culminating in an agreed plan of action and/or care and intervention.
• Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk and risk management plans.
• Continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation and/or diagnosis to inform personalised needs-led care plans in line with evidence-based practice and routine outcome measures.
• Ensure that practice is evidence-based, paying attention to NICE guidelines, policies, protocols and pathways and other professional standards.
• Be available for and participate in individual supervision with agreed clinical supervisor; comply with information governance policies and relevant professional standards.
• Act in accordance with NICE guidelines, data protection and organizational information governance policies and protocols.

Closing

This advert closes on Monday 15 Sep 2025.