Mental Health and Well-Being Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner within the Harrogate & Ripon Community Treatment Team. The successful candidate will deliver psychologically informed interventions under the supervision of an Applied Psychologist, supporting adults with severe mental health problems. The position involves collaborative care planning and working as part of a dynamic mental health team. It requires flexibility, adaptability, and a passion for adult mental health care.
Key responsibilities
- Work under supervision of an Applied Psychologist to deliver psychologically informed interventions.
- Support adults in receiving appropriate care through collaborative care planning.
- Deliver brief wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions such as Behavioural Activation, Problem-solving, and Guided self-help.
- Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team.
- Engage with service users, relatives, and patient records to develop formulations and care plans.
- Act as a care co-ordinator for a caseload of service users, monitoring progress during multi-disciplinary interventions.
Essential criteria
- 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 of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice
- Experience running groups/ activities
- Experience working as part o a team.
- Experience of being supervised
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
- Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who ar e cognitively impaired, their families and carers
- A ble to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality
- Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
- Liaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users
- Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual's health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan
- Able to contribute to risk assessment drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, under clinical supervision
- Able to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the team's understanding and formulation of service users' difficulties and development of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs
- Able to prioritise workload according to peoples' changing needs and the priorities of the team
- Able to assist in maintaining own and others health safety and security.
- To be able to use basic computer skills to collect, collate and report on client's progress on a daily basis.
- Able to plan and deliver interventions with a variety of service users presenting with mental health difficulties, their families and carers and the clinical team, on a daily basis
- Experience of considering the impact of public health within an individual's care
- Experience in discussing and responding to issues related to cultural diversity, intersectionality and inclusivity, including working with vulnerable groups (e.g. those for whom English is not their first language).
- Experience of managing multiple demands/ working in challenging environments
- Awareness of systemic barriers to accessing psychological services/healthcare for minoritised communities
- Awareness of the relationship between social, economic and environmental factors and mental health
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation
- Capable of independent travel to locations throughout the organisation
- Able to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Able to work under pressure
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- Able to be self-reflective
- Able to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Able to deal directly with distressing or emotional circumstances when they arise
- when they arise. Able to concentrate on specific activities for up to an hour at a time
- Able to deal with conflicting demands in an unpredictable work pattern
- Able to work flexibly and adapt to each person as appropriate to their needs in a variety of settings
Desirable criteria
- Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
- Fluent in languages other than English
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health and Well-Being Practitioner
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity within the newly combined Harrogate & Ripon Community Treatment Team for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWBP).
The successful candidate will have 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).
This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
Main duties of the job
As a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will work under supervision of an Applied Psychologist as part of a dynamic mental health team delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting adults to receive the right care through care planning. You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with adults with severe mental health problems.
About us
We are the Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington
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