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Hours: Full time, part time, and compressed hours available, with the option of remote working one day a week.

About us:

MI5 safeguards the UK against threats such as terrorism, espionage, cyber and sabotage. We investigate suspect individuals and organisations in the UK to obtain, collate, analyse and assess secret intelligence relating to these threats. Alongside our British Intelligence partners MI6 and GCHQ, we provide the UK government with the information they need to protect national security.

The role:

The success of our mission depends on the wellbeing of our people. As our Wellbeing Practitioner, you’ll work on behalf of all three agencies to support and promote staff wellbeing. You’ll operate as part of our Employee Assistance Programme, collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team comprised of mental health and wellbeing experts. Working alongside wellbeing practitioners, outreach delivery teams, clinical psychologists, counsellors and occupational health nurses, you’ll ensure individuals across the intelligence community feel empowered, inspired and supported.

In this role, you’ll assist the senior advisors in the triage of referrals and deliver one-to-one and group interventions for less complex cases. You’ll take the lead on several aspects of service delivery, such as the delivery of wellbeing training courses, monitoring resources (including the updating of internal and external support sources), and Management Information collection.

You’ll also be required to join an on-call rota for approximately one week in every ten, as well as travel between our national sites every month. There may also be the option for overseas travel on an annual basis.

About you:

You’ll bring your background of working in a mental health/wellbeing setting to this role, as well as your experience delivering one-to-one and group interventions. Importantly, Mental Health First Aid or Mental Health Awareness training is essential.

You might’ve worked in the public or private sector; your knowledge will include working with adults and delivering support services in different formats including guided self-help, face-to-face and online. Empathetic and calm under pressure, you’ll have good people skills and enjoy engaging with others. You’ll know how to prioritise tasks and work with autonomy as you provide reliable, inclusive support across multiple disciplines.

Training and development:

You’ll receive plenty of opportunities for internal training across a wide range of subjects, including risk management, triage, supervision under an external clinical psychologist (as required, based on the individual), motivational interviewing, listening skills, and specific interventions such as trauma-focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing.

You won’t be expected to take on all your responsibilities immediately. Instead, you’ll be given an incremental approach to the full role, supported with internal training. Upon joining, you’ll also be given an induction to the organisation and your team to help you settle quickly.

Rewards and Benefits:

Equal Opportunities:

At MI5, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.
Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website: https://www.MI5.gov.uk/careers/diversity

We’re Disability Confident

MI5 are proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP’s Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident, we aim to offer a person-to-person interview to any candidate who self-identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our ‘Offer of Interview’ (OOI). To secure an interview for this vacancy, the essential criteria (in order of application process) are:

• Eligibility questions – You will be asked a series of questions. If you meet the eligibility criteria, you will be directed to the initial application form.
• Application form –You will be asked a series of questions relating to this vacancy and are required to meet the minimum pass mark set.
• On successful completion of these stages, you will be invited to attend a virtual Interview.

What to Expect

Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:

• The first thing we will ask you to do is complete our pre-screening questions to find out if you meet our initial criteria. If you do meet these criteria, we will then ask you to fill out a full application form where you will need to create a log-in and provide your full name, email address and a memorable password.
• Our recruitment team will conduct a sift of your application. Successful applicants will be invited to an interview, where you will have the opportunity to demonstrate key behaviours relevant to the role.
• If you are successful at this stage, we will then start the vetting process, which includes a Security Interview. This interview is an important part of the selection process. It’s an interview to explore your life and experiences, and it’s not a competency or capability-based interview.

Please note, you must successfully pass each stage of the process to progress to the next. Your application may take up to 12 months to process including vetting, so we advise you continue any current employment until you have received your final job offer.

Before You Apply

To work at MI5, you need to be a British citizen or hold dual British nationality. You can read our full eligibility criteria here: https://www.MI5.gov.uk/careers/applying-for-jobs

This role requires the highest security clearance, known as Developed Vetting (DV). It’s something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community undertakes. You can find out more about the vetting process here: https://www.MI5.gov.uk/careers/vetting

Please note we have a strict drugs policy, so once you start your application, you can’t take any recreational drugs and you’ll need to declare your previous drug usage at the relevant stage.

The role is based in Manchester so you’ll need to live within a commutable distance. Please consider any financial implications and practicalities before submitting an application.

Please note, you should only launch your application from within the UK. If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application. Applying from outside the UK will impact on our ability to progress your application. You should not discuss your application, other than with your partner or a close family member.

Right to Withdraw Statement:

Please be aware that we hold the right to bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing date once a certain number of applications have been received. Please be mindful of this and submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment