Trainee Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

We are looking for highly motivated individuals to join our team as Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners. Three posts are available, across our Secondary Care Psychological Therapies Service and our Lambeth Living Well Centres. This is an exciting brand-new role created by NHS England and Improvement to support the transformation of adult community mental health services. Your training will be fully funded by the NHS. In return, we ask that you commit to staying with us for at least two years after you qualify if you apply to continue to work with us as a qualified clinician.

This role will contribute to ensuring adults with severe mental health problems have greater access to psychologically informed interventions.

Please note: The trainee mental health wellbeing practitioner posts are training positions. Successful candidates will be expected to study at university (we expect University College London) and may need to travel to campus, and will need to travel between Southwark station area, Brixton and Streatham and the team catchment areas across the borough of Lambeth for their clinical work.

We are committed to developing a team that is fully representative of the communities that we serve.

Main duties of the job

As a Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will be expected to work under supervision as part of a dynamic mental health team delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting adults to receive the right care. You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with adults with severe mental health problems.

During the one-year postgraduate certificate training, you will, under supervision, develop knowledge and practice skills to employ wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions for serious mental health problems for adults individually and in groups, as well as support their families and carers, in line with the education providers expectations.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Batchelors degree at 2:1 in any subject
  • Enrolled/willingness to enrol on a programme of study for a postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)
  • Meets criteria for NHSE to fund training (home student status)

Experience

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

Desirable

  • Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties

Knowledge / Skills

Essential

  • Assessment and formulation with client group including of risk
  • Psychological interventions with client group
  • Conditions and secondary care context of care planning

Abilities

Essential

  • Teamworking, liaison, supervision
  • Rapport building and communication
  • Fitness to undertake required tasks flexibly with complex caseload

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 08 December 2024

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.