ABOUT INVICTUS WELLBEING
Invictus Wellbeing is West Yorkshire’s Children and Young Person’s Mental Health Charity. We offer timely, effective and accessible mental health support whilst also promoting positive mental wellbeing in the communities we serve. We offer a range of services across Calderdale, Bradford and Kirklees and we work with 1000’s of Children and Young People every year.
Our mission is to ensure that all children and young people have access to the support they want and need. By acting early, we can reduce the likelihood of more severe issues developing through building resilience and positive mental wellbeing.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a wellbeing practitioner to lead interventions and become an integral part of our therapeutic and wellbeing team based at our Offices in Shipley.
You will work as part of the Brew Project, a service focused on offering confidential and non-judgmental 1-2-1 emotional health and wellbeing interventions as well as group work to children and young people 5-17.
The Wellbeing Practitioner will lead on emotional health and wellbeing interventions and deliver the highest quality service ensuring that young people have access to effective support in a timely and accessible manner. They will undergo training to learn core practitioner skills and use their skills, experiences and knowledge to aid young people’s emotional wellbeing. They will be responsible for managing a busy caseload of young people, offering interventions, signposting and referring to local groups and establishing and maintaining partnerships with appropriate schools, organisations and individuals.
This role will involve managing a caseload, being a member of a team, continuous reflective practice and understanding the local community and what support is available to young people post-intervention
We require a wellbeing practitioner to work on one or more evening shifts (2:30 - 7:30pm) Monday and Tuesday.
Major Duties:
- To provide one to one wellbeing support sessions for CYPs (children and young people) on a weekly basis from area of need; focusing on building emotional wellbeing and resilience.
- To provide timely, effective and accessible support by offering strategies, resources and approaches which can support a young person over a short term period.
- Providing support and collaboratively identifying, managing, mitigating and resolving problematic thoughts, feelings or behaviours.
- To work closely with community leaders to ensure Invictus’ offer to them is robust and effective and that they are getting the service they want and need.
- Under supervision, undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others
- To signpost YPs for further support as and when necessary.
- To identify and report safeguarding incidents, in line with relevant Invictus Wellbeing’s policies.
- Provision of information, advice and guidance (IAG) to YPs and staff regarding related issues, typically these would include general welfare, academic, professional, health and personal.
- Reporting on trends and needs in the above areas in order to improve and develop support for young people.
- To update monitoring documents/reports consistently and analyse trends and use them where appropriate in support sessions.
- To keep spreadsheets, administrative processes and client records up to date.
- Ensure that confidentiality is always protected in accordance with confidentiality policy and procedures.
- To manage busy caseloads ensuring effective communication with families, professionals, staff, CYPs and more.
- To undertake ongoing professional development relevant to mental health and emotional wellbeing services.
- To undertake other duties which are commensurate with the role.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
You will be a passionate, autonomous and highly organised individual with experience and knowledge of Bradford and children’s organisations and services across the region. You will be an enthusiastic person who not only has qualifications and the skillset to impact on young people’s lives, but a compassionate, caring personality, a willingness to learn new things and above all be passionate about improving children and young people’s mental wellbeing.
Apply by 23rd September 2026
Pay: £25,121.00-£27,532.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Paid volunteer time
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
