Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of the innovative and expanding Mental Health Team at HMP Risley and Thorncross. We want to recruit an enthusiastic Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to help us transform the service we offer our residents.

HMP Risley and Thorncross is a Male Cat C PCOSO (prisoner convicted of Sexual Offence) with a Foreign National wing prison located in Warrington, Cheshire

The Mental Health service combines Primary and secondary care services across an integrated stepped care model to form an integrated mental health team.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to shape our service and positively effect the lives of some of our most marginalised and hard to reach community members.

All applicants MUST have been resident in the UK for last two years – NPPS cannot complete enhanced background checks otherwise.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly regarded and innovative mental health service inside HMP Risley and Thorncross. The successful applicant should have a foundation knowledge of different models of mental health such as CBT, social and biopsychosocial.

The post holder will work with and support the mental health team. You will be proficient, competent and require minimum direct supervision in achieving the following:

  • Working in close proximity with mental health service users and their carers where appropriate.
  • Working flexibly and responsively to provide support and assistance to meet the assessed mental health needs of the service and service users.
  • Working collaboratively across a range of disciplines to continuously develop expertise in assisting team members to achieve positive health care outcomes for service users.
  • Promoting the health, well being and mental health of service users and carers.
  • Promoting the development of the role to support and promote skill mix and workforce modernisation within their service areas.
  • Facilitate and develop group therapies/activities
  • Provide governance and support of the peer mentors within the team.

Person Specification

Education and Qualification

Essential

  • Experience of working with offenders or providing community based social prescribing solutions

Desirable

  • NVQ 3 or equivalent training Qualifications related to Psychological health and /depression /anxiety management or demonstrated experience.

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrate experience /aptitude

Knowledge

Essential

  • Extensive knowledge of Mental Health, Social Care and/or SMS

Desirable

  • oKnowledge of specialist needs of service users within the prison environment and criminal justice systems.

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to facilitate groups
  • Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to the needs of people in distress and manage occasional highly charged emotive situations
  • Computer literacy

Desirable

  • Supervisory management skills with junior staff.
  • Ability to write reports and present information in a concise way.

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).

Closing Date: 9 August 2026

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