Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

Job summary

Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, AfC Band 4 (6 positions available)

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join our MINT teams (Hammersmith, Ealing and Hounslow) as a Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP). This is an exciting new role created by NHS England to support the transformation of adult community mental health services, ensuring that adults with severe mental health problems have access to psychologically informed interventions.

Your training will be fully funded by the NHS.

At West London NHS Trust we want to employ a talented and engaged workforce in order to deliver excellence to our service users. You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with adults with severe mental health problems. In return you will have access to:

A range of Staff Support Networks and benefitsA range of CPD and reflective practice opportunitiesSpecialist expertise and supervision to support your developmentA supportive work environment - in a recent survey psychological professionals in our Community and Recovery Services reported high levels of satisfaction with the psychological leadership, supervision and training they receive.

Main duties of the job

During the one-year graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training, you will 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.

You will: Attend all elements of the training programme and undertake assessments in order to evidence your competence and attainment of the required skills, knowledge and behaviours

Work in an adult community mental health service when not completing the programme of study

Support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team

Develop and practice psychologically-informed interventions under supervision, working directly with adults in the community

Applicants must:

Have a 2.1 bachelors degree in a relevant field

Have experience of work interacting with the public, working as part of a team, analysing complex information and communicating effectively with a wide range of people including those with complex mental health needs.

Be able to demonstrate the ability to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress, their families and carers.

Have a passion for creating and enabling equality of access to services for all; this role will include working with people from varied cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary.

About us

You will be based in our community mental health service, within one of our Mental Health Integrated Network Teams (MINT). MINT is a multidisciplinary Team providing holistic support and treatment to adults presenting with a range of mental health difficulties. You will be working alongside a team of passionate and committed psychological professionals and colleagues from other disciplines including nursing, social work, OT and psychiatry.

Successful candidates will be expected to travel to UCL University to complete their academic training for a one-year period but the position will be based in one the MINT Teams in either Hammersmith, Ealing or Hounslow.West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK. We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country. We're rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.