Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner
| Posting date: | 24 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £31,049.00 to £37,796.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £31049.00 - £37796.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 April 2026 |
| Location: | Consett, DH8 0NB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9346-26-0364 |
Summary
The role of the Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner is to: Develop and practice psychologically informed interventions under supervision, working directly with adults in the community. Support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team. Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver a set of brief wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions: Behavioural Activation and Graded Exposure Problem-solving Improving sleep Recognising and managing emotions Confidence building 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 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.