Job summary
Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners
Please see the full job advertisement in the attached document - essential reading for all applicants.We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new role in psychological practice, the Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP). MHWPs are one of the key psychological professions that will help us to deliver the NHS Long Term Plan to meet the psychological needs of older people with complex needs living in Kent & Medway. We are particularly keen to attract a diverse range of people from our local Kent & Medway communities into these exciting new roles.
We are committed to ensuring that KMPT becomes a more equal, less discriminatory and inclusive Trust. We believe that we can only achieve this through specific actions focussed on diversity, equality and inclusion, acting against inequality, discrimination and injustice. This includes recruitment.
Main duties of the job
Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners
Please see the full job advertisement in the attached document - essential reading for all applicants.
The qualification options are a Postgraduate Certificate or a Graduate Certificate both at Oxfordhealth. Trainee MHWPs will be paid at Agenda for Change Band 4 to train and would then qualify and be employable at Agenda for Change Band 5. Qualified MHWPs working in the community will contribute to the evidence-based, psychologically informed interventions delivered within KMPT's older people's services and their clinical care pathways.
People with lived experience of health and social care, and carers are particularly encouraged to apply. Please briefly and succinctly outline in your application how your background and life experience equip you to work in our services as a Trainee MHWP.
About us
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners
Please see the full job advertisement in the attached document essential reading for all applicants.
Trainee MHWPs will be employed on a fixed-term contract by KMPT to work within a local community setting for twelve months. While at work trainees will be learning the skills they will need to qualify as a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner. This will be through work-based learning and day release to Oxfordhealth. Once trainees complete the postgraduate/graduate certificate they will then be eligible for positions as a qualified MHWP within KMPT.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners
Please see the full job advertisement in the attached document essential reading for all applicants.
Trainee MHWPs will be employed on a fixed-term contract by KMPT to work within a local community setting for twelve months. While at work trainees will be learning the skills they will need to qualify as a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner. This will be through work-based learning and day release to Oxfordhealth. Once trainees complete the postgraduate/graduate certificate they will then be eligible for positions as a qualified MHWP within KMPT.
Person Specification
Training and Qualification
Essential
- Bachelors degree at 2:2 in any subject for entry to the postgraduate route
- Enrolled 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)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of work interacting with the public
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
- Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual's health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan
- 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
knowledge and skills
Essential
- Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers
- Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality.
- Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
Person Specification
Training and Qualification
Essential
- Bachelors degree at 2:2 in any subject for entry to the postgraduate route
- Enrolled 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)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of work interacting with the public
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
- Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual's health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan
- 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
knowledge and skills
Essential
- Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers
- Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality.
- Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Address
Dartford, Gravesend & Swanley Community Mental Health Service for Older People
Elizabeth Raybould Centre, Greenacres, Bow Arrow Lane
Dartford
DA1 2DL
Employer's website
https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
