Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

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 neighbourhood mental health teams. Those successful in the posts will be trained to offer psychologically-informed interventions to people in our NMHTs alongside our multi-disciplinary colleagues. You will be part of our psychological professions 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

It is hoped the interviews will be held on 17th and 24th Nov 2025

 

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 NMHTs. 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. There are 3 posts which will be located in different teams in Mid Sussex, Worthing and Hastings. Two posts are in the Dementia and Older People’s Mental health (Worthing and Haywards heath) part of the service and the Hastings post is Specialist adult. These teams work with a range of presenting mental health issues. You will all be interviewed as one cohort, but it will be possible to express a preference for a placement location at interview stage. We will be offering a centralised recruitment process where candidates who are successfully shortlisted will be invited to a single interview. Successful candidates will then be offered a post based on their preferences.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Bachelor’s degree at 2:2 in any subject for entry to Postgraduate route
  • Evidence of ability to study successfully at academic Level 5 for entry to the Graduate Certificate route
  • Enrolled on a programme of study for a graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)

Knowledge/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

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: 11 November 2025

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