Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity within the Ripon Integrated Care Team for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWBP).
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).
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
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 mental health team delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting adults to receive the right care through care planning. You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with adults with severe mental health problems.
About us
We are the Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York & Selby.
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're also committed to co-creating a great experience for our colleagues- find out more about why you should come and work for us here Why choose TEWV? - Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust
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.
Details
Date posted
10 March 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£31,049 to £37,796 a year (pro rata), per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
Reference number
346-NYA-029-26-A
Job locations
Ripon Integrated Community Team
Hummingbird House, 31 Victoria Avenue
Harrogate
HG1 5QE
Job description
Job 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
1. develop and practice psychologically-informed interventions under supervision, working directly with adults in the community
2. support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team
3. work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver a set of brief wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions :
4. Behavioural Activation and Graded Exposure using the GOALS programme
5. Problem-solving
6. Improving sleep
7. Recognising and managing emotions
8. Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
9. Confidence building
10. Support with medicines management
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
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
11. High level of enthusiasm and motivation
12. Capable of independent travel to locations throughout the organisation
13. Able to work within a team and foster good working relationships
14. Able to work under pressure
15. Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
16. Able to be self-reflective
17. Able to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
18. Able to deal directly with distressing or emotional circumstances when they arise
19. when they arise. Able to concentrate on specific activities for up to an hour at a time
20. Able to deal with conflicting demands in an unpredictable work pattern
21. Able to work flexibly and adapt to each person as appropriate to their needs in a variety of settings
Desirable
22. Fluent in languages other than English
Qualifications
Essential
23. A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)
Knowledge/Skills/Experience
Essential
24. Knowledge and experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice
25. Experience running groups/ activities
26. Experience working as part o a team.
27. Experience of being supervised
28. Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
29. Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who ar e cognitively impaired, their families and carers
30. A ble 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
31. Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
32. Liaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users
33. 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
34. Able to contribute to risk assessment drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, under clinical supervision
35. 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
36. Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs
37. Able to prioritise workload according to peoples' changing needs and the priorities of the team
38. Able to assist in maintaining own and others health safety and security.
39. To be able to use basic computer skills to collect, collate and report on client's progress on a daily basis.
40. 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
41. Experience of considering the impact of public health within an individual's care
42. Experience in discussing and responding to issues related to cultural diversity, intersectionality and inclusivity, including working with vulnerable groups (. those for whom English is not their first language).
43. Experience of managing multiple demands/ working in challenging environments
44. Awareness of systemic barriers to accessing psychological services/healthcare for minoritised communities
45. Awareness of the relationship between social, economic and environmental factors and mental health
Desirable
46. Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties