# Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mental-health-and-wellbeing-practitioner/c92658f3-973b-41a7-af65-0199dce8cc9d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mental-health-and-wellbeing-practitioner/c92658f3-973b-41a7-af65-0199dce8cc9d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust - **Location:** Trinity Building, Springfield University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £38,488 - £46,852 per annum inclusive of inner London HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-25T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-18T12:20:46.528Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Tooting/South_West_London_St_Georges_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/North_East_Wandsworth_IRHs/North_East_Wandsworth_IRHs-v8237403 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8237403?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are looking for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join the North East Wandsworth Integrated Recovery Hub (IRH). The North East Wandsworth IRH provides secondary mental health care for adults experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties. This is an exciting opportunity for an MHWP graduate to deliver a set of wellbeing-focused, psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems. Please note, this post is only for qualified MHWPs – it is essential that any applicant have a relevant qualification in a graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health). Career Progression pathways and development opportunities: We are a teaching Trust so will support your continued professional growth throughout your career with us ### Main duties of the job The successful applicant will be committed to MDT working and to advancing trauma informed care across the trust. You will work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment. You will deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances. Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation. To 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. To attend multi-disciplinary reviews and act as a care co-ordinator, for a caseload of service users in order to support and monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions. To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users To be responsive to service users’ needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect. To include carers and families in line with the service user’s wishes. To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users. To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and care plans of service users in a skilled and sensitive manner in order to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients. ### 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 **Essential** - 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 **Desirable** - Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties ### Knowledge & Skills **Essential** - 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 communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance **Desirable** - Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health ### Training & 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) **Desirable** - Any training relevant to the service user group - To be registered as an MHWP on either of the following registers: -British Psychological Society Wider Psychological Workforce Register - British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies CBT Register ## Documents - [trust values (pdf, 785.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2069) - [staff benefits (pdf, 239.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2318) - [swlstg diversity (pdf, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2314) - [swlstg privacy notice (pdf, 106.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2510) - [dbs information for candidates (pdf, 109.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=627) - [anti racism values into actions (pdf, 815.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2865) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 432.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10547921) ## 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.