Trainee Mental Health and Well-being Practitioner

4 weeks ago


Loughton, Shropshire, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a dynamic Talking Therapies Team in a vibrant community.

The Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner- Apprentice will be training to provide high volume low-intensity CBT-based interventions, including cognitive behavioural theory and practice in the format of guided self-help.

This will be delivered over the phone, via video calls and face-to-face sessions.

We are collaborating with the University of Essex to offer the Postgraduate low-intensity CBT certificate.

Your time in this fixed term role will be split between some days in university where you will be taught how to deliver CBT based psychological interventions, and some days working in our Talking Therapies service where you will be putting the teaching into practice with clients.

We are a dynamic and empowering team and as such the post holders will be expected to work well within a team setting, however, should also be able to deliver an autonomous service as part of the role, operating within recognised professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's services policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

  • To assess people with common mental health difficulties
  • To provide CBT based psychological support for people with common mental health difficulties such as symptoms of Depression, Generalised Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder
  • To deliver CBT based psychological support via telephone, video sessions, computerised CBT of face-to-face
  • To co-facilitate CBT based treatment groups for people with common mental health difficulties with the support of a qualified clinician
  • To actively make use of clinical supervision for all client-related tasks in order to review and improve the effectiveness of interventions offered
  • To complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service
  • To complete the course

Training & Qualifications:

  • The post holder to demonstrate psychological mindedness
  • Graduate certificate route- To have NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy

Experience:

  • Experience in working with mental health service users in an NHS service or in the voluntary sector
  • Experience of working in service with agreed targets in place, demonstrating clinical outcomes
  • Relevant care experience (such as care worker, support worker, healthcare assistant, healthcare administration, Support, Time & Recovery workers etc for a period of one year

Skills:

  • The post holder will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills
  • Able to develop a good therapeutic relationship with clients
  • Can demonstrate the ability to study at degree level

Knowledge:

  • To demonstrate an understanding of anxiety and depression and how they may present in primary care
  • To demonstrate an understanding of the need to use evidence-based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post

We pride ourselves on being a supportive service continually promoting the professional development of our staff. Clinicians regularly receive in-house training as well as external delivered training by services within and outside the NHS. Trainee PWP will have weekly case management supervision, weekly clinical skills supervision, and line management supervision monthly. We also have a duty supervisor that is available daily to support with clinicians with supervision of cases.

We are currently predominantly working remotely and offer telephone, video sessions face to face sessions. Staff typically work one day a week in the office, which staff have found to be beneficial with regards to maintaining team cohesion and for developing face to face clinical skills.

Staff wellbeing is most important to the trust and TTBD, this is demonstrated with our wellbeing initiative which staff are actively encouraged to engage with regularly via email and at our zoom lunches



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