Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

Job summary

Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWPs) are an exciting and growing part of the NHS psychological workforce. If you have completed a PGCert or CertGrad qualification and have at least one year’s experience in the role, we would welcome your application. We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic practitioner to join our team.

The Reflect Primary Care Mental Health Treatment Requirement Service is expanding across Sussex. Commissioned by NHS England, we deliver Community Sentence Treatment Requirements in partnership with the Probation Service and substance use services. The service supports individuals sentenced in Sussex courts by providing primary care mental health interventions.

Based between Brighton and Worthing Probation offices, you will work closely with partner agencies, including the Probation Service and CGL, delivering high-quality, evidence-based, psychologically informed interventions to individuals with complex and often marginalised needs.

You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, contributing to clinical governance, data collection, and service development under the supervision of the clinical lead. With support, you will undertake psychological assessments and deliver tailored interventions. You will also benefit from being part of a wider psychological professions network, supporting your ongoing development and career progression.

Experience within the Criminal Justice System is desirable but not essential.

Main duties of the job

What you’ll do:

• This role plays a key part in the MHTR pathway, supporting and improving the psychological care provided to service users. It involves delivering psychological assessments and interventions appropriate to the individual’s level of training and experience, as well as carrying out related tasks to strengthen assessment, intervention, and evaluation within the care group.

• The MHWP will work autonomously, with their workload, objectives, and progress overseen through regular supervision by an HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist.

• Assess the client’s suitability for these interventions
• You will typically support service users for up to 12 sessions
• Risk assess and to plan care collaboratively with service users
• Set collaborative goals for intervention with service users
• Implement pre and post outcome measures with service users
• Form professional relationships and relate to service users in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture
• Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances
• Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills
• Regularly attend clinical supervision with a qualified psychology professional
• Exercise good personal time management, punctuality, reliable attendance and good organisational skills

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within an NHS Multidisciplinary team
• A minimum of one year’s experience of working as a registered Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
• Registration or Eligibility for Registration with the BPS or BABCP for accreditation in a MHWP role

Desirable

• Current registration with BPS or BABCP

Closing Date: 26 July 2026