Main area Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9-5pm) Job ref 338-7273299-25
Employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Bridlington Primary Care Mental Health Network and Yorkshire Coast and Wold Primary Care Mental Health Network
Town Bridlington
Salary £31,049 - £37,796 Pro Rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 11/11/2025 23:59
Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 5
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
Are you passionate about supporting adults to have good mental health? Are you a recovery focused and creative Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner who wants to work in supportive teams? An opportunity has become available to work at the Bridlington Primary Care Mental Health Network and Yorkshire Coast and Wolds Primary Care Mental Health Network.
As an employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are dedicated to being a best practice example of inter-professional working in mental health. As part of this we encourage and provide opportunities for continued professional development and regular supervision to help develop nursing confidence, skills and career.
This post is a joint appointment across two Primary Care Mental Health Networks: the Bridlington Primary Care Mental Health Network and the Yorkshire Coast and Wolds Primary Care Mental Health Network. The successful candidate will spend two working days per week with each team, supporting service delivery across both geographical areas.
Main duties of the job
As a Primary Care Mental Health keyworker you will provide signposting, support and short-term interventions to promote mental health recovery. Establishing therapeutic relationships with service users and their family / carers.
* Complete initial triage and assessment of needs.
* Coordination of referrals into the team.
* Signposting / referring clients to the most appropriate service to meet their needs.
* Provide a range of information and psychologically informed interventions which are aligned with Cognitive-behavioural principles. This work may be face to face, group work, telephone or online.
* Care and risk planning.
* Provide information and interventions surrounding common mental health conditions.
* Uphold legal frameworks which underpin service delivery.
* Assess risks, the management of risks and effectiveness of interventions.
* Develop good working relationships with neighbouring teams to enable effective co-working and responsive transfers of care if necessary.
* Leadership to support the team day to day and in meetings.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner - Refer to job description and person specification documents as outlined.
Person specification
Experience
* Evidence of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem.
* Experience of running groups / activities.
Qualifications, Education and Training
* A graduate certificate (Level 6) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health).
Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities
* 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
Our recruitment team have shared their top tips to support you when you are ready to make your application. Please ensure that you read this before starting your application.
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post.Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.
To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)
This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Louise Cole Job title Team Manager Email address l.cole1@nhs.net Telephone number 01262 401292
Additional information
To learn more about this role or to have an informal chat please contact Louise Cole (Team Manager) on 01262 401292 or Emma Dowson (Clinical Lead) on 01377 208370.
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