Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

4 weeks ago

Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust Full time

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.

Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

**Job overview**:
Suffolk Wellbeing are pleased to be able to offer an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our team as a Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) Band 4. After successful completion/passing of the training course you would be employed at Band 5.

The posts will be based in either Ipswich or Bury St Edmunds, but travel will be required as part of the role during training and post qualification across Suffolk and Norfolk.* This is a full-time training post which will comprise of three days in service (office based) and two days University commitments (University of East Anglia).

**Main duties of the job**:
This is a trainee position and involves undertaking training and completion of university award.

(Please note, we are unable to consider applicants who are currently enrolled on any existing courses.)

As part of this trainee position, you will carry out low intensity CBT interventions and assessments for individuals with mild to moderate depression and anxiety. Support is offered in the form of shadowing opportunities, as well as regular individual and group supervision sessions.

We welcome applicants who are passionate about supporting patients with anxiety and depression in using the techniques of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) guided self help.

We recommend you take a look at both the University website and the Wellbeing Suffolk website for more information about what we do.

All applicants will be considered, but experience of working within mental health/caring capacity is desirable and a current UK driving license and access to a car is essential.

**Working for our organisation**:
**Benefits**

Benefits included with this role are:

- NHS pension
- A comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- Career progression
- Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- Staff physio service
- Gym membership
- NHS discounts and many more

**NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.**

**CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.**

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
If you are invited to interview, you must provide evidence of academic qualification certificates as applicable. Offers cannot be made without this information.

We are seeking an individual with the knowledge and skills to work as part of a team and be innovative in their approach. You will need to be flexible and have the ability to cope in a highly demanding training role and demonstrate a high level of organisational skill.

You will work under the direction of the Team Leader/Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.

Remote/hybrid working options are not available during the training period, - although hybrid working can be considered at the point of qualifying in line with service need.

The training course will start in September 2024.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Evidence of ability to study successfully at graduate level or equivalent

**Desirable criteria**:

- Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, counselling or within a psychological therapy.

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships

**Desirable criteria**:

- Received risk assessment and management training (either formal of throu

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