🧑🤝🧑 We’re Hiring – Mental Health & Behaviour Change Practitioner
📍 Location: Middlesbrough
🔖 Reference: SCS2058
🕒 Job Type: Temporary Agency Assignment
💷 Pay: Up to £20 per hour
🚗 Driver: Full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle required
🛡️ Business Insurance: Required before starting where not already in place
About the Role
Supply Care Solutions is recruiting for an experienced Mental Health & Behaviour Change Practitioner to join a specialist substance use service in Middlesbrough on a temporary basis.
This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified practitioner with experience delivering brief psychological interventions, behaviour change support or psychosocial interventions .
You will deliver structured, evidence-based psychological and behaviour change interventions to service users experiencing low-level emotional and psychological barriers to change.
The role will also involve supporting trainee practitioners, contributing to reflective practice and helping to develop evidence-based behaviour change approaches across the service.
Key Responsibilities
Deliver structured 1:1 and group psychological interventions , including CBT-informed approaches, Motivational Interviewing, DBT skills and psychoeducation
Assess and formulate low-intensity mental health and emotional needs
Plan and deliver appropriate brief interventions
Identify and escalate complex or higher-risk cases appropriately
Mentor and provide practice oversight to two trainee practitioners
Contribute to the development and implementation of behaviour change interventions
Participate in reflective practice, quality assurance and continuous improvement
Work collaboratively with caseworkers and wider partner agencies
Contribute to applied research and evaluation projects
Maintain accurate case notes and outcome measures
Promote evidence-based practice and continuous professional development
Support training and coaching across the wider team where required
Requirements
Candidates must be able to demonstrate:
A recognised qualification to deliver psychological interventions, such as PWP, CBT, Counselling, Mental Health Nursing, Social Work or an equivalent recognised qualification
Professional registration with a recognised body relevant to your scope of practice, such as HCPC, NMC, BACP, UKCP or equivalent
Experience delivering brief psychological interventions in practice
Experience supporting or mentoring others within a clinical or practice-based environment
Training or demonstrable understanding of behaviour change theory and its application , particularly frameworks such as the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) and COM-B model
Full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle
Business insurance where required before starting
Understanding of safeguarding, risk escalation and information governance
Understanding of low-level emotional/mental health presentations and barriers to recovery
Ability to work flexibly within community and outreach settings
Desirable Experience
The following would be advantageous:
Additional training in NICE-recommended approaches such as Motivational Interviewing, DBT, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Social Network Therapy or Motivational Enhancement Therapy
Experience contributing to service improvement or research projects
Experience within trauma-informed practice or substance use services
Recognised training such as Principles and Practice of Behaviour Change or equivalent
Existing clinical supervision or reflective practice training
Candidates who do not already hold relevant clinical supervision/reflective practice training must be willing to complete this training .
Required Documents
Successful candidates may be required to provide:
Proof of relevant professional qualification
Evidence of professional registration
Right to Work documentation
Full UK driving licence
Evidence of business insurance where applicable
Relevant employment references
Enhanced DBS or other required safeguarding checks, where…