Job summary
We are looking for a highly motivated individual with an interest and commitment in supporting older people living with complex mental health conditions to join our Later Life Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) as a Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner. 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. Your training will be fully funded, and you will be eligible for a full-time qualified position if you pass the course. In return, we ask that you commit to staying with us for at least two years after you qualify.
Our team is based at the Kingswood Civic Centre, South Gloucestershire, which borders Bristol, and has good links to Bath, The Cotswolds and Wales. The Later Life CMHT is located alongside the Later Life Therapies, Specialist Care Home and Enhanced Dementia Support Team and Psychological Therapies Service. The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and have the opportunity to work alongside mental health nurses, clinical psychologists, psychological therapists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and support staff.
Main duties of the job
This is a training role and the post-holder will be enrolled in an accredited graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training via the University of Exeter (some onsite training days will be required) 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:
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 low-intensity CBT informed, evidence-based psychological interventions such as behavioural activation, graded exposure, problem-solving, improving sleep, recognising and managing emotions, guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating, building confidence, and relapse prevention work.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust):a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Undertake relevant safety assessment and planning with the multi-disciplinary team.
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 focussed 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 well-being-focussed, psychologically informed interventions, in line with the best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT Therapist including:
o Behavioural activation
o Graded exposure
o Problem-solving
o Improving sleep
o Recognising and managing emotions
o Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
o Building confidence
o Relapse prevention work
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Undertake relevant safety assessment and planning with the multi-disciplinary team.
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 focussed 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 well-being-focussed, psychologically informed interventions, in line with the best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT Therapist including:
o Behavioural activation
o Graded exposure
o Problem-solving
o Improving sleep
o Recognising and managing emotions
o Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating
o Building confidence
o Relapse prevention work
Person Specification
Essential criteria
Essential
- For PGCert (level 7) - A degree at 2:2 or above in any relevant subject, or equivalent, or For GradCert (level 6) - Evidence of study at level 5 (i.e. DipHE, foundation degree, HND, NVQ)
- Experience of working with adults and/or older people with mental health needs.
- Experience of working as part of a team.
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing.
Desirable
- Experience of running groups/activities.
- Able to communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance.
- Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically-informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs
- Able to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the team's understanding and formulation of service users' difficulties and development of a multi-disciplinary care plan
Person Specification
Essential criteria
Essential
- For PGCert (level 7) - A degree at 2:2 or above in any relevant subject, or equivalent, or For GradCert (level 6) - Evidence of study at level 5 (i.e. DipHE, foundation degree, HND, NVQ)
- Experience of working with adults and/or older people with mental health needs.
- Experience of working as part of a team.
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing.
Desirable
- Experience of running groups/activities.
- Able to communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance.
- Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically-informed interventions to meet people's health and wellbeing needs
- Able to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the team's understanding and formulation of service users' difficulties and development of a multi-disciplinary care plan
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
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