Trainee Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner: Sponsorship Available
Job Title: Trainee Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner
Agency: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Crawley, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 28,392 – 31,157 £ / Year
Job summary
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We are excited to welcome applicants for two Trainee Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner(MHWPs) posts in North West Sussex, at Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust. Please note that for the first year, until qualification, this is a trainee post which will require studying at the University of Sussex for a year at the same time as working in this service
Sussex Partnership is a mental health trust offering care across Sussex to adults, older adults and children with mental health problems.
Those successful in the posts will be trained to offer psychologically-informed interventions to people in our Community and Crisis mental health teams, alongside our multi-disciplinary colleagues. You will be part of our Psychological professionals team, receiving high-quality supervision and continued professional development and support. If you are successful in this post, you will receive NHS-funded training at Sussex University, and a salary with us at Sussex Partnership for the placement element of your training. The years of training will then equip you to apply for qualified MHWP posts within our trust, and we will endeavour to provide a post in the service after qualification.
Please note, you cannot train or apply for another NHS England training (including clinical psychology training) within two years of taking on an MHWP role
Main duties of the job
There is national recognition that MHWP posts play a key role in the provision of psychological therapies in our mental health teams. These are multi-disciplinary teams that work with people in the community, and you will be providing intensive short-term therapeutic interventions within the context of the wider team.
We have two posts across North West Sussex, one in a Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, based in Mid Sussex (Haywards Heath and East Grinstead) and one post in the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment team, based at Langley Green Hospital.
We will be offering a centralised recruitment process; candidates who are successfully shortlisted will be invited to a single interview.
Successful candidates will then be offered a post based on their preferences. Please state your preferred base in the supporting Information.
In your supporting statement, please answer the following question: “What is your understanding of trauma-informed care and how it relates to secondary mental health care?”.
How to Apply;
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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