Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

Job overview

Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWPs) are an exciting and growing part of the NHS psychological workforce. If you have completed a PGCert or CertGrad qualification and have at least one year’s experience in the role, we would welcome your application. We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic practitioner to join our team.

The Reflect Primary Care Mental Health Treatment Requirement Service is expanding across Sussex. Commissioned by NHS England, we deliver Community Sentence Treatment Requirements in partnership with the Probation Service and substance use services. The service supports individuals sentenced in Sussex courts by providing primary care mental health interventions.

Based between Brighton and Worthing Probation offices, you will work closely with partner agencies, including the Probation Service and CGL, delivering high-quality, evidence-based, psychologically informed interventions to individuals with complex and often marginalised needs.

You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, contributing to clinical governance, data collection, and service development under the supervision of the clinical lead. With support, you will undertake psychological assessments and deliver tailored interventions. You will also benefit from being part of a wider psychological professions network, supporting your ongoing development and career progression.

Experience within the Criminal Justice System is desirable but not essential.

Main duties of the job

What you'll do:

• This role plays a key part in the MHTR pathway, supporting and improving the psychological care provided to service users. It involves delivering psychological assessments and interventions appropriate to the individual’s level of training and experience, as well as carrying out related tasks to strengthen assessment, intervention, and evaluation within the care group.
• The MHWP will work autonomously, with their workload, objectives, and progress overseen through regular supervision by an HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist.
• Assess the client's suitability for these interventions
• You will typically support service users for up to 12 sessions
• Risk assess and to plan care collaboratively with service users
• Set collaborative goals for intervention with service users
• Implement pre and post outcome measures with service users
• Form professional relationships and relate to service users in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture
• Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances
• Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills
• Regularly attend clinical supervision with a qualified psychology professional
• Exercise good personal time management, punctuality, reliable attendance and good organisational skills

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What are we looking for?

• PG Cert or Cert Grad in Mental Health Wellbeing Practice
• At least a years experience post qualification
• Experience of delivering low intensity psychologically informed work using CBT principles to those with severe and enduring mental health problems
• Experience of working well within a multidisciplinary NHS Team
• Experience of delivering goal focused, short-term, time-limited work.
• Experience of promoting wellbeing and social inclusion.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusting and productive relationships with colleagues, partner agencies and service users
• A good understanding of mental health issues and ability to formulate psychologically around these
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to tailor them to a variety of audiences
• The ability to work independently and think quickly in often challenging situations
• The creativity to solve problems and tackle obstacles in new ways
• Effective time management skills to juggle competing demands in a busy and sometimes pressured work environment