MHST Senior Wellbeing Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge)

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join the Peterborough Mental Health Support Team with a team base in Hampton, Peterborough.

The Senior Wellbeing Practitioner role is an opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions to parents and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors. This role also helps to develop and support colleagues by offering supervision and supporting trainee staff with their learning and understanding of the role. You will be part of the senior team helping to develop and improve our service to deliver effective interventions in a timely way.

Mental Health Support Teams work in collaboration with education settings to provide early intervention to children, young people and their families/carers for mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

The role requires the applicant to travel around the area to allocated schools.

Why not click on the link to the Job Description and find out more about the role.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 9 November 2026

Main duties of the job

You will be working in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people (CYP) are actively encouraged. The approach requires flexibility and adaptability, and a passion for working with CYP in education settings.

The post holder will work as an autonomous Practitioner in education and health care settings alongside a team of mental health professionals and within the scope of their job description.

The post holder will carry out assessments, develop and deliver evidence-based interventions to children, young people, parents and carers. The interventions address mild to moderate mental health difficulties (anxiety, worries and fears, behaviour, low mood). Supporting staff is also a key element of this role and the post holder will offer case management supervision and clinical skills supervision.

The post holder will receive regular supervision to support them in their work.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential

  • Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) Qualification
  • Core professional qualification relevant to mental health e.g. nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work.
  • Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

  • A qualification in provision of supervision
  • Post Graduate qualification
  • Registration with relevant professional body

Experience

Essential

  • Two years+ experience as a Band 5 or equivalent clinician
  • Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
  • Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
  • Experience of providing supervision
  • Experience in the delivery of evidence-based interventions for children and adolescents
  • Experience in working in a team and partnership working

Desirable

  • Experience of delivering training
  • Experience of leadership
  • Experience in developing others

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Able to effectively prioritise own workload and use team resources effectively
  • Ability to use outcome measures for both clinical and audit purposes
  • Risk assessment knowledge and skills
  • Ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults

Desirable

  • Sound knowledge of national legislation and drivers and other legislation related to the care of children and young people, educational provision and mental health
  • Knowledge of NICE, CQC standards and regulations

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 22 November 2026

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