# Band 4 Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - Swindon > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust Partnership NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-4-trainee-mental-health-and-wellbeing-practitioner-swindon/850bdd88-eaaf-4f79-834e-88dd96c33fc4 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-4-trainee-mental-health-and-wellbeing-practitioner-swindon/850bdd88-eaaf-4f79-834e-88dd96c33fc4.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust Partnership NHS Trust - **Town:** Bath - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Split time between university study and on work experience) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri 9-5) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-31T11:20:52.220Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Somerset/Swindon/Avon_Wiltshire_Mental_Health_Partnership_NHS_Trust/Trainee_Mental_Health_Wellbeing_Practitioner/Trainee_Mental_Health_Wellbeing_Practitioner-v8176859 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8176859?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.awp.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post. We are looking for a highly motivated individual with an interest and commitment in supporting  people living with complex mental health conditions to join our Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIp) team as a Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (PGCert or GradCert). This is an exciting role created by Health Education England and NHS England and Improvement to support the transformation of adult community mental health services. Your training will be fully funded (band 4), and you will be eligible for a full-time qualified position if you pass the course (band 5), although this may be with another team within the Locality. In return, we ask that you commit to staying with us for at least two years after you qualify. ### Main duties of the job To support people with severe mental health problems, their families and carers with collaborative care planning / decision-making about patient care and treatment. To deliver wellbeing focused psychologically informed interventions, aligned to cognitive behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems. Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances. Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation. To work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based. To attend multi-disciplinary reviews and act as a keyworker, for a caseload of service users in order to support and monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions. To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users. To deliver specified wellbeing-focused, psychologically informed interventions, in line with the best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT Therapist. The suitable candidate must have a valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle as the position is community based. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To work under close supervision from case management and clinical skills supervisors, as a member of the multidisciplinary team. To support individuals to engage in collaborative care and treatment planning, identifying needs, setting goals and exploring options and actions to meet needs/achieve goals. To provide specified psychologically informed wellbeing focused interventions. ## Person Specification ### Essential **Essential** - Meets the academic prerequisites for entry to the MHWP training programme at level 6 or level 7 - Most importantly, you’ll need to be able to demonstrate a willingness to work in a hopeful and productive way with adults with severe mental health problems. - Display the motivation and commitment to undertake and complete the course independently. - Right to Work in the UK - This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post. - UK driving licence - Please clearly state in supported piece alongside access to vehicle. **Desirable** - Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills - Ability to work within a Multi-disciplinary team - Ability to work independently, and manage complex and sometimes challenging situations - Ability to problem solve and time manage without close supervision - Some understanding or experience working with mental health ## Documents - [mhwp job plan (pdf, 248.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10479857) - [trainee job description (pdf, 880.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10479856) - [mhwp general information (pdf, 384.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10479858) - [financial support & discounts (pdf, 919.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2794) - [value of the nhs pension scheme (pdf, 279.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2795) - [inclusive top 50 uk employers list (pdf, 78.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2439) - [code of conduct for unregistered practitioners (2024) (pdf, 142.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1104) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.