Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Bristol, United Kingdom Vita Health Group Full time

The Role: What you will do?
**Have you considered training in Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and getting paid to make a real difference?**

**If so, our Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner programme could be the role for you**

Here at Vita Health Group, we support each of our trainees to become confident, patient-focused clinicians. We work with you to develop your clinical skills throughout your course, celebrating your successes and encouraging your professional development.

**The Role**:
We have several opportunities to recruit enthusiastic and committed Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (Trainee PWPs) to join our expanding NHS Talking Therapies service operating across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

In this role, you will provide Low Intensity interventions whilst undertaking the Post-Graduate Certificate delivered by the University of Exeter commencing in March 2024. This training post will equip you to provide Step 2 Guided Self-Help Low Intensity Interventions to clients with a range of common mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression, for which CBT interventions are demonstrated to be clinically effective.

You will be joining a motivated workforce and will be supported in the completion of both your academic study and clinical delivery by skilled and experienced supervisors.

This role will be offered on a permanent contract.

The role typically comprises 3 days per week undertaking clinical practice with the service and 2 days per week attending university. University days will be hybrid training of a combination of remote and face-to-face teaching in a Bristol based location.

The role is likely to include remote working but attendance at one of the BNSSG offices will be required at least twice a week.

**Skills and Experience**:
**Essential**:

- Undergraduate degree or evidence of previous successful study at Regulated Qualifications Framework Level 5 or Level 6;
- Evidence of one year’s working experience in settings with high exposure to people with mental health difficulties.
- Evidence of interpersonal skills to engage and develop working alliances with colleagues and patient.
- Evidence of an openness to learning new knowledge and skills.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Excellent administrative and time management skills.
- Flexible and able to provide out of hours clinics as required by service needs.
- An awareness of and commitment to supporting and facilitating diversity and inclusion.

**Desirable**:

- Knowledge and use of CBT techniques in the treatment of common mental health difficulties Experience of telephone working

**Other Requirements**:
Please note:

- All interviews will be held remotely via Microsoft Teams during the week 6th-8th December or 11th-13th December. If successful, there will be a final interview with the University of Exeter Friday 12th January.
- Applicants must be available to commence the role one March 11th 2024 and attend all university days starting from the 12th March 2024.
- A Disclosure and Barring check (DBS, formerly CRB) will be required by the service for appointment to post.
- Applicants who have completed an NHS-funded psychological professions training programme within the last two years are not eligible to apply.
- Only those with the right to work in the UK without restriction and eligible for Home Fee status can be recruited. These rules are set by the UK government and cannot be changed by individual universities or the NHS.

**Getting to know Us**

Hello We are Vita Health Group - we are the lead provider of NHS Talking Therapies services across Bristol, providing vital mental health support to clients within the practice area. We are super proud of the work we do at Step 2 and see the life-changing impact of our practice every single day

We really do practice what we preach here at Vita, with a company-wide focus on staff wellbeing, a flexible and creative approach to work and a real culture of openness and support. We love to see our colleagues thrive and achieve their personal goals, so we place a real emphasis on quality supervision and rich CPD.

**Why Vita Health Group?**:
Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do.

We are physical and mental health specialists with over 30 years of experience. We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UK’s largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

To progress your skills and enable career development we provide Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines.

We are committed to equitably support the wellbeing of all employees as demonstrated by:

- Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for E



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