Wellbeing Practitioner: Mental Health Support Team

Wellbeing Practitioner: Mental Health Support Team x 2 (MHST) with CPD supervision training

Bromley Y are a long-established charity for over 60 years, which runs the Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service for Children and Young People in Bromley. We are a supportive, inclusive, collaborative organisation with an opportunity for an experienced mental health practitioner, counsellor or equivalent to join our Mental Health Support Team on a full-time contract. If you are looking for a service that believes in developing and upskilling its practitioners, this is the role for you!

Bromley Y is organised around the needs-led iThrive Model and operates an Integrated Single Point of Access with our partners in CAMHS to ensure children and young people receive the right support at the right time. Our MHSTs are well-established and work together to support primary and secondary schools across Bromley borough and over the next three years we have plans to extend coverage to all education settings, including SEND settings, independent schools and further education colleges.

The service has a diverse offer for young people and families, with evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions, workshops, webinars, mentoring, social prescribing and parent-support. We champion the voices of young people, actively seeking feedback from clients, facilitating user participation groups and empowering our Youth Ambassadors to lead on community outreach.

About the role

•      Job Title: Wellbeing Practitioner (MHST)

•      Salary Banding: £32,073 to £39,984.68 per annum

•      Hours of Work: Full Time (37.5 hrs a week)

•      Contract Type: Full-time, permanent

•      Location: Remote/Bromley Y/Bromley schools

This is an opportunity to join a passionate, creative MHST with excellent school engagement placed within a third-sector service who place young people and families at the heart of everything we do. Our base is in central Bromley and we come together in the office one day per week to ensure everyone feels connected and supported with both their work and their wellbeing.

The Wellbeing Practitioner post is a diverse role which involves delivering evidenced-based interventions for mild-moderate mental health difficulties, liaising with schools and partner agencies, and facilitating psychoeducational events. In addition to managing your own caseload of clients, you will act as the Bromley Y link for a number of primary and secondary schools to provide consultation, signposting and support development of bespoke Whole School Approaches to mental health in line with schools’ individual needs.

The right person will be hard-working and enthusiastic with the ability to work flexibly and creatively with young people, parents/carers and school staff to achieve their goals. They will enjoy collaborating with colleagues and feel confident sharing ideas and seeking solutions. They will look forward to new challenges and be keen to develop their professional skill set.

 You will have:

•      A recognised counselling, therapeutic or CYP-IAPT qualification, ideally as an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP).

•      Professional registration, or working towards this

•      Over 2 years experience of working therapeutically with children, adolescents and/ or young adults

•      Experience of undertaking assessment of emotional and mental health needs of children, adolescents and/or young adults

•      A wide range of skills to engage young people and work effectively with other professionals

Please note: This role also features a CPD training opportunity with King’s College, London to train in EMHP Supervision, which commences in January 2027, more details here;  KCL Supervision Recruitment Cert 9 January 2027

To apply please submit an application through this link Bromley Y - Wellbeing Practitioner by 12:00pm on Friday 23rd October 2026.

You can also view this advert via our website careers page (Vacancies - Bromley Y : Bromley Y)

Please also include information on your notice period and salary expectations. Please be advised that due to the volume of applications that we receive, if you do not hear from us, you have unfortunately not been shortlisted on this occasion. Further, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role or in line with business organisational needs.

 If your application is of interest and we would like to take it forward, our interview process will be:

•      First Stage Telephone Interview

•      Face to Face structured scored competency-based interview and a case study and/or presentation

The Rewards

•      Good competitive salary

•      Annual holiday entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays

•      Annual Wellbeing Day

•      Direct support from experienced clinicians including our full-time Clinical and Safeguarding Leads.

•      Regular clinical supervision plus access to group and peer supervision sessions

•      Wellbeing support via our Employee Assistance Programme

·       Eligibility for Blue Light Card discount scheme

•      Generous organisation sick pay

•      Contributory Pension scheme

•      CPD opportunities, an individual Performance Development Plan and access to many opportunities for training.

•      Hybrid working model

•      Working within a dynamic, creative and innovative team where all staff are empowered to achieve their very best and to share ideas and feedback

•      Being part of a unique third-sector service which believes in developing its staff

•      A diverse, inclusive and supportive working environment that places Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at the heart of its business strategy

To arrange an informal chat about this role, please contact Andrey Lyashenka (MHST Practice Lead) on [email protected]

To find out more about opportunities at Bromley Y, visit our website: Vacancies (bromley-y.org)

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and do not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and 

civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace where our employees feel 

psychologically safe, and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds to apply and join our organisation. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

By submitting an application, you are consenting to Bromley Y HR team securely holding and processing 

your personal data. You retain the right to have your information deleted in line with current GDPR legislation. Please refer to our job applicant privacy notice for further information.

Job Title: Wellbeing Practitioner x 2 roles

(with CPD training attached, for EMHP Supervision course at King’s College)

Section: Mental Health Support Team

Responsible to: Practice Lead (Mental Health Support Team)

Location: Bromley (hybrid model)

Hours of Work: 37.5 hrs per week, Negotiable

Grade: Wellbeing Practitioner

1.     ROLE FOCUS:

To contribute to the development of early intervention and prevention service in Bromley for Children and Young People. The post represents an opportunity for a qualified practitioner, who is committed to the principles of CYP IAPT and THRIVE, to further their career. In addition to managing their own caseload, the post holder will provide advice and support to children, young people and their families through workshops and small groups to provide them with information on how to maintain their emotional wellbeing. The post-holder will work closely with schools in Bromley borough to support delivery of the three core functions of Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs):

·       Evidence-based interventions for mild-moderate mental health issues

·       Supporting introduction or development of whole school approaches to mental health and wellbeing

·       Providing timely advice to school and college staff and liaising with external specialist services to help children and young people to get the right support.

·       Work will be carried out predominantly in schools and some community settings, as well as digitally on occasions from home, to ensure in-reach to young people who would not normally access services. 

The post-holder will work with young people from diverse backgrounds and should be committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, ensuring access to services for all. The post holder must be prepared to be flexible in their working arrangements to ensure that all children and young people can access support at a time which suits their needs. The other aspect of this work will be delivering workshops and online sessions to young people, parents and carers.

Post-holders who hold a professional qualification will be allocated half a day per month to undertake work to maintain their qualification requirements.

As our service is open Monday to Saturday, occasional Saturday working may be required.

The ideal candidate(s) must have:

·       Professional qualification, with evidence of continuing professional development, in a field relevant to child and adolescent mental health

·       Enhanced DBS

·       Professional Registration or eligibility (one of the following): BACP, UKCP, HCPC, GMC, NMC

·       Over two years’ experience of working with children and families, including work with children and young people with emotional and mental health needs which includes working with children and young people with a wide range of clinical and behavioural presentations.

·       Experience of undertaking assessment of emotional and mental health needs children and young people

·       Experience of working with multi-agency partners and planning best outcomes for children and young people

·       Demonstrate knowledge and skills to deliver training packages on child and young people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health, including delivering psycho education materials to children, young people and their families

2. MAIN DUTIES

·       To provide an evidenced based service for children and young people as part of early identification and intervention for children and young people with emotional and mental health needs.

·       To provide advice, support and knowledge of appropriate resources for the emotional wellbeing of children and their families.

·       To take responsibility for leading on and liaising with a number of primary and secondary schools, providing consultation and planning interventions through regular Support and Advice Meetings with School Mental Health Leads and other relevant pastoral staff.

·       To keep up to date with local service offer provision in the locality and connections with suitable services for a range of diverse needs, including SEND.

·       To support development and delivery of psychoeducational workshops, webinars and groups for young people, parents/carers and school staff.

·       To work across agencies to develop a co-ordinated response to children and young people's mental health needs.

·       To work alongside others to demonstrate knowledge and skills to plan and critically evaluate the implementation of the early intervention role to meet the mental health needs of children and young people.

3. PRACTICE RESPONSIBILITIES

·       To deliver evidence based therapeutic interventions for low to moderate difficulties with a caseload of children and families, to maintain their professional qualification, keeping abreast of current training and practice in such areas.

·       Ensure information sharing protocols are conducted according to GDPR compliance and organisational policy.

·       To provide support and guidance to others, particularly schools with the aim of improving skills, knowledge, awareness and facilitating reflective practice.

·       Undertake assessments with young people and parents which identify areas where the young person/ parent wishes to see change and/or recovery.

·       To identify, monitor and manage risk to self or others in every contact with a client and follow organisational and local procedures for safeguarding.

·       Manage own workload through both clinical practice supervision and managerial supervision.

·       To work collaboratively with other teams within Bromley Y to ensure children, young people and families’ needs remain at the core of our work, in line with the THRIVE model.

·       To contribute to the evaluation of all areas of service delivery, client and professional satisfaction and the impact of interventions.

·       To adopt a balanced age-appropriate approach in empowering young people in promoting their individual voice and needs which supports the rights of the child and that supports parent and carers in their role.

4.   EDUCATION AND TRAINING

·       To ensure knowledge and skills are continuously developed and maintained at a high level of competence.

·       To identify training needs through supervision and personal development plans.

·       To take responsibility in fulfilling CPD requirements for professional registration requirements and maintenance

·       To support the design and deliver training services/workshops and to take part in their evaluation.

5.   RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

·         To work with others to develop practice protocols and audit tools, to collect the relevant statistical information to underpin service evaluation and record keeping.

·         To ensure all interventions are evidence based.

·         To implement national audit tools and review with colleagues nationally and locally.

·         To be key in obtaining service user views and feedback on support provided to ensure the delivery of accessible provision.

·         To comply with relevant professional codes of conduct.

·         To contribute to establishing essential networks, knowledge base of resources and maintain links with relevant community organisations.

·         To contributing to identifying service needs and gaps across with regard to children’s mental health and wellbeing.

·         Develop skills in service evaluation and audit to ensure the overall development of the service.

·         To maintain awareness of up-to-date research and development pertaining to advances in child and young people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health issues.

6.   GENERAL

·            Keep timely, consistent and accurate records, providing information for monitoring and evaluation as required.

·            Participate in, and actively contribute to, individual supervision, training and team meetings as required.

·            Work in accordance with Bromley Y’s objectives and values.

·            Comply with all organisational policies and procedures, including the Code of Conduct and in particular to ensure safe, fair and responsible working practices and relationships.

·            Undertake duties to ensure the health and safety of post-holder, colleagues, service users, volunteers and visitors.

·            Work flexibly, being prepared to perform other duties commensurate with the role.

·            Actively support and promote any fundraising activities as part of the day-to-day duties.

·            Promote the work of Bromley Y People and encourage positive understanding, awareness and attitudes towards emotional wellbeing and mental health.

·            Work at all times to promote equality, diversity and individual rights.

·            Work alongside and ensure active service user participation in all aspects of work, including monitoring of activities.

·            To participate in the development of local safeguarding child protection, joint agency procedures and other relevant local procedures.

JOB SPECIFICATION

QUALIFICATIONS

·       Professional qualification, with evidence of continuing professional development, in a field relevant to child and adolescent mental health such as EMHP and CWP, CYP IAPT or CBT training pathways. (Essential)

·       Enhanced DBS. (Essential)

·       Eligibility for professional registration, such as BABCP or BPS. (Essential)

EXPERIENCE

·       Over two years’ experience of working with children and families, including children and young people with emotional and mental health needs and a wide range of clinical and behavioural presentations. (Essential)

·       Experience of undertaking assessments of the emotional and mental health needs of children and young people. (Essential)

·       Experience of working with multi-agency partners and planning the best outcomes for children and young people. (Essential)

·       Experience and understanding of working with Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs). (Desirable)

·       Experience and understanding of working with primary and secondary schools, including education professionals. (Essential)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

·       Working knowledge of Health, Social Services, Education and the Voluntary Sector. (Desirable)

·       Ability to listen empathetically to children and young people and their families and to work effectively in partnership. Essential qualities include respect, genuineness, empathy, personal integrity and communication skills that support the therapeutic relationship and process. (Essential)

·       Knowledge and skills in identifying systems that support emotional wellbeing and mental health needs in the community and facilitate access for young people and families. (Desirable)

·       Knowledge of relevant national policies and guidance relating to children’s services, together with the knowledge and skills to safeguard and protect children and young people’s welfare in line with the Children Act 2004. (Desirable)

·       Knowledge and skills to deliver training packages on children and young people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health, including psychoeducation for children, young people and their families. (Essential)

·       Knowledge and skills to offer emotional wellbeing and mental health consultation to a wide range of professionals. (Essential)

·       Skills in assessing risk using established assessment tools and, where necessary, developing protocols with families and other staff or practitioners to manage risk. (Essential)

·       Ability to manage a caseload. (Essential)

VALUES

·       Ability to demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of Bromley Y and its services. (Essential)

·       Ability to demonstrate support for the THRIVE model and the RESPECT principles. (Essential)

·       Positive attitudes towards diversity, equality and enabling access to services for all. (Essential)

·       A positive attitude towards children and young people, particularly those with emotional and mental health difficulties. (Essential)

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

·       Ability to work from home using remote technologies. (Essential)

·       Flexibility across working hours when required. (Essential)

·       Willingness to meet with children and young people in a variety of locations while maintaining safety. (Essential)

·       Computer skills and abilities. (Essential)