# Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mental-health-and-wellbeing-practitioner/aed221de-eb7d-4206-87e5-baa31406ecdd - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mental-health-and-wellbeing-practitioner/aed221de-eb7d-4206-87e5-baa31406ecdd.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Salford Neighbourhood Mental Health Team - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-26T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-12T08:50:59.361Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Salford/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8172959 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8172959?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Job overview We are excited to invite applications for the role of Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our dynamic and innovative team at Salford Neighbourhood Mental Health Team. As a community mental health service delivered in partnership with GMMH, Mind in Salford, Six Degrees, Wellbeing Matters, and START, we emphasise collaboration with service users and local communities. We are seeking a qualified Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner. The post-holder will have completed a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners. The successful candidate will collaborate with a diverse range of psychological practitioners, including a principal clinical psychologist, psychodynamic therapists, a trainee CAT therapist, CBT therapist, and CERN practitioner. Our broader team includes professionals from various backgrounds such as recovery workers, peer support workers (experts by experience), occupational therapists, social workers, nurses, pharmacists, doctors, and psychiatrists. Together, we aim to provide holistic support with a strong focus on both psychological and social wellbeing. At Salford Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, co-production and trauma-informed practices are at the core of everything we do. ### Main duties of the job Job Outline: The role will include 2 key functions: - To work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment. - To deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, these will include but are not limited too cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems. Scope & Authority: The post holder will work under close case management supervision from a suitably qualified professional to provide high quality collaborative care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will work under close clinical skills supervision from an HCPC registered clinical psychologist or BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist to provide specified psychologically-informed interventions, with a level of autonomy matched to level of demonstrated competence. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification Staff benefits - Pay Enhancements: - Band | Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any week day after 8pm and before 6am | All time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight) - 1 | Time plus 47% | Time plus 94% - 2 | Time plus 41% | Time plus 83% - 3 | Time plus 35% | Time plus 69% - 4 – 9 | Time plus 30% | Time plus 60% - 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 - Genie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles) ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. 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 **Essential** - Experience of delivering psychologically informed interventions to service users, under appropriate supervision - Experience running groups or activities - Experience of undertaking care planning work - Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing - Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice **Desirable** - Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties ### 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) - Registration required as a MHWBP with the British Psychological Society (BPS) or the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). ### Other Requirements **Essential** - Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Trust working in a trauma informed way, promoting social inclusion and challenging stigma ## Documents - [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 328.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10475446) ## 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.