Job summary
Are you ready to use your skills not just to care, but to lead, mentor and shape the future of mental health support in education?
We are looking for a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join our amazing Mental Health Support Team. In this role, you will work directly with children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs, delivering evidence-based interventions that make a lasting difference. You will support children experiencing a wide range of needs including trauma, OCD, self-harm, disordered eating, emotional based school avoidance and neurodiversity.
Alongside your clinical work, you will supervise and guide Education Mental Health Practitioners and trainees, supporting their growth and development along with empowering them in their roles. You will also play a central part in embedding the Whole School Approach to mental health and wellbeing, working with senior mental health leads and education staff to create positive and supportive school cultures.
This role offers the chance to combine leadership, innovation and direct therapeutic work, making it both challenging and rewarding. You will not only change outcomes for children and families in a positive way but also help shape the future of the service itself.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone who brings together clinical expertise, leadership skills and a passion for supporting children and young people. To thrive in this role, you will need:
- A recognised Education Mental Health Practitioner or Children`s Wellbeing Practitioner qualification
- Experience of working therapeutically with children and young people in education or community settings
- Competence in delivering low intensity interventions for mild to moderate needs
- Experience of clinical supervision or line management
- Strong skills in risk assessment, safeguarding and multi agency collaboration
It would be great if you also bring experience of leading projects, mentoring colleagues or delivering training, but what matters most is that you are values led, compassionate and resilient.
This is your chance to lead with purpose, support with compassion and make your mark where it matters most. Sounds like you? If it does, wed love to see you apply.
About us
Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. Established for over 30 years, Compass is a national charity which works in communities across the UK providing services spanning substance misuse treatment and rehabilitation, early interventions for vulnerable young people, school-aged health programmes and associated prevention as well as treatment and health promotion initiatives.
All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks.
We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce.
We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post.
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits including:
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)
- Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
- Competitive contributory pension scheme
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
- Enhanced sick pay
- Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
- Annual performance/salary review
Help us to make a positive change to the lives of children and young people!
Closing date: 05/10/2025
Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you ready to use your skills not just to care, but to lead, mentor and shape the future of mental health support in education?
We are looking for a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join our amazing Mental Health Support Team. In this role, you will work directly with children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs, delivering evidence-based interventions that make a lasting difference. You will support children experiencing a wide range of needs including trauma, OCD, self-harm, disordered eating, emotional based school avoidance and neurodiversity.
Alongside your clinical work, you will supervise and guide Education Mental Health Practitioners and trainees, supporting their growth and development along with empowering them in their roles. You will also play a central part in embedding the Whole School Approach to mental health and wellbeing, working with senior mental health leads and education staff to create positive and supportive school cultures.
This role offers the chance to combine leadership, innovation and direct therapeutic work, making it both challenging and rewarding. You will not only change outcomes for children and families in a positive way but also help shape the future of the service itself.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you ready to use your skills not just to care, but to lead, mentor and shape the future of mental health support in education?
We are looking for a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join our amazing Mental Health Support Team. In this role, you will work directly with children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs, delivering evidence-based interventions that make a lasting difference. You will support children experiencing a wide range of needs including trauma, OCD, self-harm, disordered eating, emotional based school avoidance and neurodiversity.
Alongside your clinical work, you will supervise and guide Education Mental Health Practitioners and trainees, supporting their growth and development along with empowering them in their roles. You will also play a central part in embedding the Whole School Approach to mental health and wellbeing, working with senior mental health leads and education staff to create positive and supportive school cultures.
This role offers the chance to combine leadership, innovation and direct therapeutic work, making it both challenging and rewarding. You will not only change outcomes for children and families in a positive way but also help shape the future of the service itself.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Core professional and/or clinical qualification (e.g. EMHP, CWP, PMHW, nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work) and must be committed to maintaining registration if applicable
- Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, Post Graduate Diploma or willingness to undertake.
Desirable
- Post Graduate Certificate in Supervision (EMHP supervisor course)
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Management / supervision training
- Therapeutic post graduate qualification or equivalent experience ideally in low intensity CBT.
- Post Graduate qualification in a relevant discipline
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Two years post qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people e.g., as an EMHP/CYP-IAPT practitioner
- Experience of line management and/or delivery of clinical supervision
- Experience of working in a community and/or educational
- Experience of effective engagement with CYPF
- Risk assessment and management in the delivery of clinical services (including safeguarding)
Desirable
- Experience of leadership within Children and Young People clinical service areas
- Experience of providing mentorship
- Experience of organising team duties
- Experience of inducting staff members
- Experience of working in a community and/or educational environment
- Experience of working in a skill mix team
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff
- Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures
- Planning workload, time management
- Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities
- Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets
- IT skills
- Team player and a dynamic personality
- Multi-agency/disciplinary working
- Excellent communication skills and ability to form positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- Innovative practice and ability to influence others
- Positive attitude; flexible and adaptable; solution focused; and tenacious.
- Has a strong degree of personal integrity
- Ability to work all year round
- Due to the nature of the role there is a need to travel to individual schools, which will require a driving license and access to a vehicle (for individuals who cannot drive due to a disability, we can consider accessibility options i.e. provided via Access to Work etc).
- Ongoing commitment to maintain registration in core profession
Desirable
- Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Core professional and/or clinical qualification (e.g. EMHP, CWP, PMHW, nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work) and must be committed to maintaining registration if applicable
- Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, Post Graduate Diploma or willingness to undertake.
Desirable
- Post Graduate Certificate in Supervision (EMHP supervisor course)
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Management / supervision training
- Therapeutic post graduate qualification or equivalent experience ideally in low intensity CBT.
- Post Graduate qualification in a relevant discipline
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Two years post qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people e.g., as an EMHP/CYP-IAPT practitioner
- Experience of line management and/or delivery of clinical supervision
- Experience of working in a community and/or educational
- Experience of effective engagement with CYPF
- Risk assessment and management in the delivery of clinical services (including safeguarding)
Desirable
- Experience of leadership within Children and Young People clinical service areas
- Experience of providing mentorship
- Experience of organising team duties
- Experience of inducting staff members
- Experience of working in a community and/or educational environment
- Experience of working in a skill mix team
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff
- Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures
- Planning workload, time management
- Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities
- Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets
- IT skills
- Team player and a dynamic personality
- Multi-agency/disciplinary working
- Excellent communication skills and ability to form positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- Innovative practice and ability to influence others
- Positive attitude; flexible and adaptable; solution focused; and tenacious.
- Has a strong degree of personal integrity
- Ability to work all year round
- Due to the nature of the role there is a need to travel to individual schools, which will require a driving license and access to a vehicle (for individuals who cannot drive due to a disability, we can consider accessibility options i.e. provided via Access to Work etc).
- Ongoing commitment to maintain registration in core profession
Desirable
- Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
