Primary Care Mental Health Support Worker
Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire. Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people we serve if the people we recruit are happy, empowered, supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.
As a Mental Health Support Worker within the Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service (LMWS) you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team which delivers an integrated service to offer primary care based mental health support for people with mild to moderate common mental health problems. You will also focus on increasing access to mental health services for people in some of the most deprived areas of Leeds and those who traditionally face barriers to accessing this support.
Information session via TEAMS on Tuesday 17th November 2026 at 5:30pm. Please email helent@touchstonesupport.org.uk for a link to join.
Closing date: Tuesday 24th November 2026
Interviews will be held on: Thursday 10th December 2026
Company: Touchstone
Salary: from £28,392 a year, pro rata
Hours: Full-time
Location: Leeds, LS9 7RE
Working pattern: Hybrid - 1 day remote
Job type: Permanent
- Working for a diverse and inclusive organisation e.g. 36% *BME staff, 25% *LGBTQ+ staff, 16% *staff with a disability. Staff and peer support networks (*as above and many more)
- 28 days annual leave (rising to 31 after 2 years) + 8 bank holidays (pro-rata)
- Flexible working opportunities
- Access to HealthHero - Employee Assistance Scheme and Virtual GP service for staff
- Personal wellbeing and training budget
- Access to 24/7 confidential staff helpline
- Health and wellbeing activities and fun staff team away days
- Inclusive maternity and parental policies and pay
- Additional day of leave as a celebration day or health and wellbeing
- Learning and personal development opportunities
Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, an equal rights employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly, BME and LGB and Trans communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone.
All applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria will be interviewed.
Additional information can be obtained from our equal opportunities policy.
Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we do not intend to offer sponsorship for this particular role. You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the right to work in the UK to be able to undertake this role, if appointed, you will be required to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offer being made to you.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
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