# Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** North View
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Mental health professionals
- **Grade:** Band 4
- **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-05T13:00:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-21T08:50:55.506Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Rochdale/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8308746
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8308746?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly regarded and innovative mental health service inside HMP Buckley Hall.

The service principles are based around social therapy, and we have an extensive offer of social prescribing activities that the successful applicant will help facilitate and develop our Arts on Prescription pathway

As such an interest or talent in creative arts/craft – particularly music production or performance would be an advantage, as would a knowledge of other arts & crafts and to be able to deliver low intensity psychologically informed interventions for anxiety and depression.

### Main duties of the job

Working in close proximity with mental health service users and their carers where appropriate.

- Working flexibly and responsively to provide support and assistance to meet the assessed mental health needs of the service and service users.
- Working collaboratively across a range of disciplines to continuously develop expertise in assisting team members to achieve positive health care outcomes for service users.
- Promoting the health, well being and mental health of service users and carers.
- Promoting the development of the role to support and promote skill mix and workforce modernisation within their service areas.
- Facilitate and develop group therapies/activities

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached detailed job description and person specification:

Staff benefits

- Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts

### Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Experience/ qualification

**Essential**

- Experience of working with offenders or providing community based social prescribing solutions or experience of facilitating activity sessions or therapeutic groups
- Extensive knowledge of Mental Health, Social Care, SMS or younger persons services
- Ability to facilitate groups

**Desirable**

- Foundation Degree) in Health and Social Care or equivalent.
- NVQ 3 or equivalent training Qualifications related to Psychological health and /depression /anxiety management or demonstrated experience.
- A skill in Arts & Crafts – including singing, instrumentation, recording/production engineering and broadcasting or woodwork or similar crafts that can be used in therapeutic activity sessions

## Documents

- [jd/ps (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10628807)
- [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931)

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