Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (Wellbeing Practitioner)
| Posting date: | 17 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £25,150.00 to £27,550.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £25150.00 - £27550.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 March 2026 |
| Location: | Huddersfield, HD1 1LA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | E0380-26-0000 |
Summary
ABOUT INVICTUS WELLBEING Invictus Wellbeing is West Yorkshires Children and Young Persons Mental Health Charity. We offer timely, effective and accessible mental health support whilst also promoting positive mental wellbeing in the communities we serve. We offer a range of services across Calderdale, Bradford and Kirklees and in 2022 worked with over 2,000 individual children and young people across a variety of projects. Our mission is to ensure that all children and young people have access to the support they want and need. By acting early, we can reduce the likelihood of more severe issues developing through building resilience and positive mental wellbeing. ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for 3 highly motivated wellbeing practitioners to lead interventions and become an integral part of our therapeutic and wellbeing team based in central Huddersfield. You will work as part of the Brew Project, a service focused on offering confidential and non-judgmental 1-2-1 emotional health and wellbeing interventions as well as group work to children and young people 5-17. This is part of Localas Kirklees 0-19 service. The Wellbeing Practitioner will lead on emotional health and wellbeing interventions and deliver the highest quality service ensuring that young people have access to effective support in a timely and accessible manner. They will undergo training to learn core practitioner skills and use their skills, experiences and knowledge to aid young peoples emotional wellbeing. They will be responsible for managing a busy caseload of young people, offering interventions, signposting and referring to local groups and establishing and maintaining partnerships with appropriate schools, organisations and individuals. We require a wellbeing practitioner to work on one or more evening shifts (2:30 - 7:30pm) Mon-Fri PERSON SPECIFICATION You will be a passionate, autonomous and highly organised individual with experience and knowledge of Kirklees and childrens organisations and services across the borough. You will be an enthusiastic person who not only has qualifications and the skillset to impact on young peoples lives, but a compassionate and caring personality. This role will involve managing a caseload, being a member of a team, continuous reflective practice and understanding what support is available to young people post-intervention across Kirklees. You will be highly organised, have a willingness to learn new things and above all be passionate about improving children and young peoples mental wellbeing