# Senior Wellbeing Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-wellbeing-practitioner/ae3b1e7a-e3b6-48f1-a85b-835076ea9b22 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-wellbeing-practitioner/ae3b1e7a-e3b6-48f1-a85b-835076ea9b22.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Hollins Park Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** 37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-24T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-16T13:31:30.791Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Warrington/Mersey_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Senior_SWP/Senior_SWP-v8290360 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8290360?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and motivated Senior Wellbeing Practitioners to join our Halton, Knowsley and Warrington Mental Health Support Teams in schools, delivering mental health support to children and young people across education settings in Warrington. This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adult’s barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check. This post requires a professional registration: Education Mental Health Practitioner Post Graduate (PGCert) or Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip) OR Children & Young People's Wellbeing Practitioner PGCert or PGDip AND Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) or Commitment to complete the qualification once in post Registration with either the BABCP or the BPS ### Main duties of the job Provide assessment and low intensity interventions, such as psycho-educational interventions, one-to-one psychological therapies and parenting interventions. Support professionals, such as school staff and third sector employees, in making appropriate referrals and in carrying out the mental health aspects of their own roles. Make appropriate referrals to other service providers in the statutory and voluntary sectors and redirect patients to other sources of appropriate support within the local community as required. Provide a service that is flexible as far as possible in terms of clinic hours, mode of delivery and location of contact. Liaise as appropriate with secondary care mental health services, social care, schools, and other partner agencies. Adhere to Trust safeguarding policies and local safeguarding procedures. Where necessary, attend social care meetings such as Team Around the Family, Child in Need, or Child Protection meetings. Conduct risk assessments, prepare risk management plans and initiate appropriate action where indicated (including referrals to relevant secondary care or crisis services). Undertake appropriate clinical supervision on a regular basis in accordance with the relevant professional guidelines and policies. Provide supervision to practitioners in the service line. As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post-holder will be expected to: Support the development of the Step 2 provision within a high pressured environment Hold a reduced low intensity caseload and deliver evidence based interventions to clients in one-to-one and group settings Be familiar with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and be committed to equal opportunities. Develop, support and deliver training in innovative practice to Step 2 practitioners, and other workers qualified to act in Low Intensity worker role To develop the service and provide awareness raising with colleagues from external statutory and non-statutory organisations To take a lead role in a key area of Step 2 development across Talking Therapies Halton service, which may include work with long term conditions, older adults, or groups/courses Support the development of links with Primary Care, Secondary Care, GP’s and service users in non-statutory organisations, especially services supporting minority groups Provide clinical case management, possible line management, and occasional clinical supervision to Step 2 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and trainees ### 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 ### Skills **Essential** - The capacity to adapt core psychological approaches to the primary care culture, incorporating a range of skills to meet a broad spectrum of presenting issues - Ability to conduct clinical risk assessment and collaboratively create risk management plans with CYP, their families, and professionals supporting them - Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision - Able to develop productive therapeutic relationships with clients - Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships - Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively - Ability to work under pressure - Able to communicate clearly and persuasively, both verbally and in writing - Ability to liaise and network with a wide range of organisations and members of the public - Comprehensive IT skills, including word processing and database packages - Ability to use outcome measures for both clinical and audit purposes - Ability to manage own caseload and time **Desirable** - Evidence of further training in psychological interventions/therapy - Ability to carry out a range of evaluation and monitoring techniques - Able to work through interpreters - Fluent in languages other than English ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of different models of mental health and wellbeing - Understanding of models of assessment, screening, referral, record-keeping and evidence-based brief psychological intervention - Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes - Knowledge of safeguarding legislation and practice - A good understanding of the Thrive model of CYP mental health and wellbeing support **Desirable** - An awareness of serious mental health presentations (psychosis, bi-polar) ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience of working with people with common mental health problems - Ability to demonstrate a range of post-qualifying experiences (min 1 year) in offering and delivering the range of evidence based IAPT low intensity interventions such as guided self-help and group psycho-education - Consolidated and reflective supervised post-qualifying experience in a community setting - Experience of working with clients in a primary care setting - Experience of ‘partnership working - Substantial experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork - Experience of working with suicidal clients and of risk management **Desirable** - Experience of screening, assessing and working with a wide spectrum of mental health issues and working with people with moderate common mental health problems - Experience of audit and research - Experience of and ability to provide mentor/supervisor role - Experience of supervising others - Experience of working with children and young people who are subject to local authority support at Early Help, Child in Need, or Child Protection levels ### Qualifications **Essential** - Education Mental Health Practitioner Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) or Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) for roles based in MHSTs OR - Children & Young People’s Wellbeing Practitioner PGCert or PGDip for roles based in CYPMHS teams AND - Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip), or commitment to complete the qualification once in post - Registration with either the BABCP or the BPS **Desirable** - A qualification in professional supervision - Training in a High Intensity Modality ## Documents - [oh risk id (pdf, 285.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10619218) - [job description (pdf, 762.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10618810) - [a great place to work (pdf, 2.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1400) ## 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.