Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 4 Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - Swindon
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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.
About the Role
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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Requirements
The suitable candidate must have a valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle as the position is community based.
About Us
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
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Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million people.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Matt Boffin
- Job title: CBTp Therapist
- Email address: Matthew.Boffin1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01793 715000
If you would like further information on the course and role, do not hesitate to contact for more information on 01793 715000 or on the contact details above directly.
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