Band 4 Trainee Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - Wiltshire

Job overview

We are looking for a highly motivated individuals with an interest and commitment in supporting  people living with complex mental health conditions to join our Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) as a Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (PGCert or GradCert). There are three posts, one in each of the three CMHTs across Wilshire; one in West Wiltshire based at Warminster, one in Sarum based at Salisbury and one in North and East Wiltshire based at Chippenham

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 as a band 4, and you will be eligible for a full-time qualified position as a band 5  if you pass the course. In return, we ask that you commit to staying with us for at least two years after you qualify.

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.

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.

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

For further duties please see attached Job Description.