Trainee Psychological Therapies Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Full time

If you would like the chance to make a real difference to autistic children and young people and/or children and young people with learning disabilities with moderate to severe mental health difficulties and/or behaviours of distress, this could be the role for you.

The band 5/6 [depending on qualification/registration]post-holder will work within the Child and adolescent mental health services 0 to 18 Yr olds (NHS: Children and young people’s services, Learning Disability Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Children’s Neurodevelopmental Services).

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust [NCHC] in partnership with Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust [NSFT] are excited to offer a HEE - Hearth Education England funded Post Graduate Recruit to Train (RtT)Psychological Therapies practitioner - for adapting therapies for Autism and Learning Disability.

If you would like the chance to make a real difference to autistic children and young people and/or children and young people with learning disabilities with moderate to severe mental health difficulties and/or behaviours of distress, this could be the role for you.

This is a development/training role within the Child and Young Persons Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme - Learning Disability and Autism (CYP-IAPT LD/ASD).

The post-holder will work within the Child and adolescent mental health services 0 to 18 Yr olds (NHS: Children and young people’s services, Learning Disability Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Children’s Neurodevelopmental Services).

This role will be best suited for applicants able to balance a busy work and study schedule. You will be an employee within CFYPS [Child family young people’s services] whilst enrolled for 1 or 2 days a week on a Postgraduate Diploma course. This is a Postgraduate level diploma; you will be required to study and write academic material at this level. As well as for fulfilling the band 5/6 role. Applicants must be prepared to study and write assignments outside of protected study time (i.e. outside of 37 1/2hrs work hours).

The PGDipin CYPIAPT Therapies ASD/LD Module) starts in January 2023 and will be completed over 1year. Students will study their ASD/LD Modules alongside Core Skills Modules. Students will be required to attend university regularly each week (expected to be Monday and or Tuesdays). Their remaining time in role will be spent working clinically within CFYP service with children, young people, their families, schools and wider systems [as part of band 5/6 role job description]

N/B - More information about the courses and how the training works can befound hereincluding the course brochures, and westronglyrecommend you read theFAQs.

Successful applicants will need to sign a 1 Yr learning/training agreement, to also remain in post for 2 years post training [3 years in total including training year] in order to maximise the benefit of this training for local children and young people. The post will continue beyond this.

Please find link attached in the documents section.

Applicants for this training at UCL will need to be available to start the NSFT job role by the 9th of January 2023 at the latest (with the course starting on the 16th January 2023).



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