Join Our Team as a Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Location: HMP Full Sutton, York.
Rethink Mental Illness work alongside Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) and Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust to deliver an integrated stepped care mental health service within HMP Full Sutton. The team compromises a range of highly skilled professionals who work collaboratively to provide the highest quality of care, for those with mental health needs within the prison and for Rethink Mental Illness employees, this is carried out between 0800 – 1600 Monday to Friday. As we work across both sites, there may be some travel involved, but this will be done in work time and expenses paid to support service delivery. *The applicant must have a full UK Driving Licence with access to a vehicle.
What I will do and achieve: In this role, you will make a real difference by supporting individuals with mental health needs within a prison setting. Your work will focus on empowering recovery, delivering evidence-based interventions, and ensuring high standards of care. What you’ll be doing: • Manage referrals – Assess suitability of new referrals, following agreed protocols, and ensure clients receive the right level of care, including stepping up treatment when needed. • Support recovery – Help people with mental health challenges to self-manage their recovery through person-centred assessments and risk evaluations. • Deliver interventions – Provide low-intensity, evidence-based interventions such as Guided Self-Help and psycho-educational support, drawing on CBT principles. • Collaborate and coordinate – Work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to maintain a stepped care approach and attend relevant meetings. • Maintain high standards – Protect client confidentiality, record outcome measures, and ensure accurate clinical data entry in line with best practice. • Build partnerships – Liaise with statutory and non-statutory agencies to support continuity of care upon release from prison. • Meet service goals – Adhere to agreed activity targets to minimise waiting times and ensure accessible treatment delivery. • Communicate effectively – Engage with clients, colleagues, and stakeholders in a clear and professional manner. • Champion our values – Uphold the values of Rethink Mental Illness and represent the organisation positively at all times. • Be flexible – Provide contingency cover for other prison sites when required.
Key Responsibilities and Commitments:
• Work in line with Prison Service policies and procedures, supporting relevant programmes and contributing to risk management and public protection. • Comply with all legal and regulatory requirements, including the Data Protection Act 1998 and Health & Safety at Work Act 1974. • Ensure accurate and secure management of all records in accordance with Data Management and Information Governance policies. • Act in accordance with the charity’s Professional Boundaries, Safeguarding, and Health & Safety policies, reporting any concerns promptly to your line manager. • Attend regular clinical and managerial supervision as agreed with your manager. • Take responsibility for your own performance review, responding to agreed objectives and undertaking relevant training. • Engage in personal development and supervision to enhance competencies and clinical practice. • Maintain professional registration requirements and stay up to date with Department of Health guidelines and internal standards. • Work within the charity’s national policies, local operating procedures, and those of external regulators or professional bodies. • Promote Rethink Mental Illness by encouraging membership, donations, and activism. • Undertake other reasonable duties and projects as required by your line manager, in line with the role and grade.
Essential Skills and Experience: • Qualified Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) through IAPT Low Intensity National Programme (e.g., Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Therapies). • Accredited with a recognised body (BACP or BPS). • Experience delivering evidence-based low-intensity interventions at Step 2 within a stepped care model. • Strong knowledge of assessment, screening, referral processes, record-keeping, and brief psychological interventions. • Skilled in applying evidence-based psychological therapies and using clinical outcome measures. • Ability to build inclusive, therapeutic relationships and respect diversity. • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and confident with IT systems (Word, Excel, databases). • Committed to professional development and constructive use of supervision.
If you’re passionate about empowering individuals, reducing stigma, and improving mental health outcomes, we’d love to hear from you!
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Why Work With Rethink Mental Illness? At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe that when you feel supported, you can make the biggest difference. That’s why we offer a range of benefits to help you thrive: • Inclusive Culture: Join staff networks that champion diversity and inclusion. • Wellbeing Support: Access our Wellbeing Hub, Employee Assistance Programme, and the Unmind mental health app. • Recognition & Rewards: Enjoy discounts, cashback offers, and celebrate achievements through our PULSE platform. • Flexible Working & Generous Leave: Starting at 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and your birthday off), with options to buy or sell extra days. • Learning & Development: Grow your career with structured onboarding and training opportunities. • Financial & Family Support: Contributory pension scheme, enhanced family leave, and travel benefits like season ticket loans and cycle-to-work schemes. • Referral Bonus: Earn up to £300 for introducing someone to our team.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Diversity is important to us, and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.
Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.
