# Mental Health and Well-Being Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mental-health-and-well-being-practitioner/a074f17b-3c56-4225-9a03-c68092fe696a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mental-health-and-well-being-practitioner/a074f17b-3c56-4225-9a03-c68092fe696a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** West Park Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-19T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-05T08:01:17.182Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/County_Durham/Tees_Esk_Wear_Valleys_NHS_Trust/Psychological_Professions_Durham_Resilience_Team/Psychological_Professions_Durham_Resilience_Team-v8341534 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8341534?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.tewv.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have an exciting opportunity within the Durham Resilience Team for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWBP). The County Durham Resilience Team is a multi-agency partnership providing accessible wellbeing and mental health support to individuals and families across County Durham. Working as part of the County Durham Community Mental Health Transformation Programme, we are committed to delivering person-centred, recovery-focused support within local communities. We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner to join the team and deliver psychologically informed wellbeing interventions to people experiencing mental health difficulties. Working alongside service users, carers, partner organisations and multidisciplinary colleagues, you will support individuals to improve their wellbeing, achieve personal goals and maintain recovery. 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). ### 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 integrated mental health team alongside our Pioneering Care Partnership colleagues. You will be delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting adults to receive the right care through care planning, including group work as directed by the wider team. We work as part of a wider collaborative with the Pioneering Care Partnership delivering high quality care and support as early as possible to those who need it, making a definite shift form treatment to prevention. We are committed to co-creating safe and personalised care that improves the lives of people by involving them as equal partners. The most important way we will get there is by living our values, all of the time. Psychological Professions staff will be expected to display the Trust values at all times, working as part of the collective team with shared accountability and responsibility for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of patient care is delivered in a patient centred manner. They will also contribute to ensuring the culture of our services is built upon the Trust Values and the trust's strategy - Our Journey To change (OJTC). We are committed to developing a team that is fully representative of the communities that we serve, and especially welcome applications from individuals with protected characteristics that are currently under-represented in our workforce. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post holder will work under supervision from an HCPC registered applied psychologist to provide specified psychologically-informed wellbeing-focused interventions, with a level of autonomy matched to level of experience. The role of the Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner is to develop and practice psychologically-informed interventions under supervision, working directly with adults in the community . You will support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team. The postholder will carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team and any patients they work with. You will engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances. You will engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation. You will work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based. Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying. Additional contact details: Donna Sheavills, Team Manager -donna.sheavills@pcp.uk.net 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 This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible. ### 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 ### Qualifications **Essential** - A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health) ### Personal Attributes **Essential** - 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 - 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** - Fluent in languages other than English ### Knowledge/Skills/Experience **Essential** - 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 of 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 are cognitively impaired, their families and carers - Able 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 **Desirable** - Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties ## Documents - [our journey to change (pdf, 595.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2498) - [mindful employer recruitment (pdf, 93.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1595) - [probationary period procedure (pdf, 303.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1903) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 389.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10665737) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.