# Trainee Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/trainee-mental-health-wellbeing-practitioner/2885de2e-898e-41bd-86b0-4996281d0182 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/trainee-mental-health-wellbeing-practitioner/2885de2e-898e-41bd-86b0-4996281d0182.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Chalkhill - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health practitioner - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 1 year (This post is a training post for one year, with an agreement that the relevant team will then employ them in a substantive role following training.) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-15T07:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-01T10:10:48.957Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Sussex/Crawley/Sussex_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_health/Mental_health-v8286118 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8286118?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are excited to announce that we have been awarded funding from Health Education England to offer the opportunity to come and train with us at Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust (SPFT) as a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP). Sussex Partnership is a mental health trust, offering care across Sussex to adults, older adults and children with mental health problems. The MHWP posts are new national roles based in our community mental health teams and our emotional wellbeing services (EWS). Those successful in the posts will be trained to offer psychologically-informed interventions to people in our community mental health teams, alongside our multi-disciplinary colleagues. Your will be part of our psychology and psychological therapies team, receiving high quality supervision and continued professional development and support. If you are successful in this post you will receive NHS funded training at Sussex University, and a salary with us at Sussex Partnership for the placement element of your training. The years training will then equip you to apply for qualified MHWP posts within our trust. Please note, you cannot train or apply for another NHS England training (including clinical psychology training) within two years of taking on an MHWP role ### Main duties of the job There has been recent national recognition that MHWP posts can play a key role in the provision of psychological therapies in our community mental health teams. These are multi disciplinary teams that work with people in the community and you will be providing intensive short term therapeutic interventions within the context of the wider team. We will be offering a centralised recruitment process where candidates who are successfully shortlisted will be invited to a single interview. Being a Car Driver would be advantageous. Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we have received enough applicants. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities This is a training role within adult community mental health services. The post-holder will be enrolled in a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners. The post-holder will attend all elements of the programme of study and progress successfully through assessments of competence and attainment. In the remaining part of the week they will work as a trainee in the service, under close supervision and regular course assessment of practice competence. They will work within the limits of their experience and assessed competence for their stage of training: - To work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment. - To deliver a set of 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. In your supporting statement, please answer the following question: "what is your understanding of Trauma informed Care and how it related to secondary mental health care". ### Applicant requirements This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Experience of work interacting with the public - Experience working as part of a team - Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing ### Qualifications **Essential** - Batchelors degree at 2:2 in any subject for entry to Postgraduate route ## Documents - [jd (pdf, 528.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10603430) - [privacy notice (pdf, 127.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2254) ## 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.