Wellbeing Practitioner: Mental Health Support Team

London Borough of Bromley Council; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Annual Wellbeing Day

Clinical supervision

Hybrid working model

Blue Light Card

Job summary

Bromley Y, a long-established charity delivering mental health and emotional wellbeing services for children and young people in Bromley, is seeking a Wellbeing Practitioner (MHST) for a full-time role. The post involves delivering evidence-based interventions, liaising with schools, and supporting Whole School Approaches to mental health.

You will have an EMHP-like qualification, be registered or working towards registration, and bring over 2 years of therapeutic experience with youth.

Qualifications

• Qualified counsellor/therapist or equivalent with CYP-IAPT/EMHP pathway
• Professional registration or working towards it
• 2+ years therapeutic work with children/adolescents/young adults
• Experience assessing emotional/mental health needs in young people
• Ability to engage with young people and collaborate with other professionals

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based interventions for mild-moderate mental health needs
• Liaise with schools and partner agencies
• Manage own caseload and provide consultation to schools
• Signpost and support Whole School Approaches to mental health
• Provide CPD and supervision opportunities as part of the team

Skills

EMHP qualification

Professional registration

2+ years therapeutic experience

Child/young person assessment

Engage with professionals

Education

EMHP or equivalent counselling/therapeutic qualification

Education Mental Health Practitioner training

Job description

Wellbeing Practitioner: Mental Health Support Team x 2 (MHST) with CPD supervision training

Bromley Y are a long-established charity for over 60 years, which runs the Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service for Children and Young People in Bromley. We are a supportive, inclusive, collaborative organisation with an opportunity for an experienced mental health practitioner, counsellor or equivalent to join our Mental Health Support Team on a full-time contract. If you are looking for a service that believes in developing and upskilling its practitioners, this is the role for you!

Bromley Y is organised around the needs-led iThrive Model and operates an Integrated Single Point of Access with our partners in CAMHS to ensure children and young people receive the right support at the right time. Our MHSTs are well-established and work together to support primary and secondary schools across Bromley borough and over the next three years we have plans to extend coverage to all education settings, including SEND settings, independent schools and further education colleges.

The service has a diverse offer for young people and families, with evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions, workshops, webinars, mentoring, social prescribing and parent-support. We champion the voices of young people, actively seeking feedback from clients, facilitating user participation groups and empowering our Youth Ambassadors to lead on community outreach.

About the role

• Job Title: Wellbeing Practitioner (MHST)
• Salary Banding: £32,073 to £39,984.68 per annum
• Hours of Work: Full Time (37.5 hrs a week)
• Contract Type: Full-time, permanent
• Location: Remote/Bromley Y/Bromley schools

This is an opportunity to join a passionate, creative MHST with excellent school engagement placed within a third-sector service who place young people and families at the heart of everything we do. Our base is in central Bromley and we come together in the office one day per week to ensure everyone feels connected and supported with both their work and their wellbeing.

The Wellbeing Practitioner post is a diverse role which involves delivering evidenced-based interventions for mild-moderate mental health difficulties, liaising with schools and partner agencies, and facilitating psychoeducational events. In addition to managing your own caseload of clients, you will act as the Bromley Y link for a number of primary and secondary schools to provide consultation, signposting and support development of bespoke Whole School Approaches to mental health in line with schools' individual needs.

The right person will be hard-working and enthusiastic with the ability to work flexibly and creatively with young people, parents/carers and school staff to achieve their goals. They will enjoy collaborating with colleagues and feel confident sharing ideas and seeking solutions. They will look forward to new challenges and be keen to develop their professional skill set.

You will have:

• A recognised counselling, therapeutic or CYP-IAPT qualification, ideally as an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP).
• Professional registration, or working towards this
• Over 2 years experience of working therapeutically with children, adolescents and/ or young adults
• Experience of undertaking assessment of emotional and mental health needs of children, adolescents and/or young adults
• A wide range of skills to engage young people and work effectively with other professionals

Please note: This role also features a CPD training opportunity with King's College, London to train in EMHP Supervision, which commences in January 2027, more details here; KCL Supervision Recruitment Cert 9 January 2027

If your application is of interest and we would like to take it forward, our interview process will be:

• First Stage Telephone Interview
• Face to Face structured scored competency-based interview and a case study and/or presentation

The Rewards

• Good competitive salary
• Annual holiday entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays
• Annual Wellbeing Day
• Direct support from experienced clinicians including our full-time Clinical and Safeguarding Leads.
• Regular clinical supervision plus access to group and peer supervision sessions
• Wellbeing support via our Employee Assistance Programme
• Eligibility for Blue Light Card discount scheme
• Generous organisation sick pay
• Contributory Pension scheme
• CPD opportunities, an individual Performance Development Plan and access to many opportunities for training.
• Hybrid working model
• Working within a dynamic, creative and innovative team where all staff are empowered to achieve their very best and to share ideas and feedback
• Being part of a unique third-sector service which believes in developing its staff
• A diverse, inclusive and supportive working environment that places Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at the heart of its business strategy

To arrange an informal chat about this role, please contact Andrey Lyashenka (MHST Practice Lead) on [e-mail]

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and do not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace where our employees feel psychologically safe, and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds to apply and join our organisation. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.