Band 5 Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner - Swindon

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Swindon; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Disability confident employer

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a skilled Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP) to deliver brief, trauma‑informed interventions for adults with Complex PTSD and complex emotional needs, bridging primary and secondary care.

You will co‑facilitate psychoeducational groups, work with a multidisciplinary team, and contribute to service development while maintaining accurate clinical records.

Qualifications

• Qualification from MHWP Training Course or Registration.
• Experience with adults in mental health settings.
• Understanding of Complex PTSD / complex emotional needs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver brief, well-being focused interventions for CPTSD and related needs.
• Co-facilitate trauma-informed psychoeducational groups with MDT.
• Contribute to assessments and personalised treatment planning.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and participate in CPD.
• Support service development and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Skills

Brief interventions

Trauma-informed care

Group facilitation

Communication skills

Education

MHWP Registration

Tools

IT skills

Job description

Job overview

The Primary Care Complex Emotional Needs Service

is an intermediate psychological service that sits between Talking Therapies and secondary mental health services.

The service provides psychological interventions for clients who experience difficulties that may be associated with a personality disorder, as well as clients with PTSD/CPTSD whose needs fall between Talking Therapies and secondary mental health services.

We offer a range of interventions across both pathways and work closely with AWP Access Services to help ensure clients are offered the most appropriate pathway for their needs.

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP) to join our team. The role involves providing brief psychological interventions and co-facilitating therapeutic groups for clients with Complex Emotional Needs and PTSD/CPTSD.

This is an opportunity for a practitioner looking to broaden their experience of working with clients presenting with Complex Emotional Needs and PTSD/CPTSD, while developing skills within a specialist service that bridges the gap between primary and secondary care.

Right to Work in the UK

This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

You will deliver well-being focused brief interventions to individuals with CPTSD and other complex emotional difficulties.

In addition to providing time limited brief interventions, you will co-facilitate psychoeducational groups working alongside a multidisciplinary team to provide integrated, trauma-informed care.

You will also be supported to join our training team which has a mandate to provide training to other AWP services on assessing and formulating clients with complex emotional needs.

Working for our organisation

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Working closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver brief, wellbeing-focused, psychologically informed interventions tailored to the needs of clients experiencing Complex PTSD (CPTSD) and Complex Emotional Needs.

Working alongside senior therapists to co-facilitate trauma focused psychoeducational groups and DBT informed skills groups.

Support the wider MDT with assessments and creating personalised treatment plans.

Collaborate with the team to ensure holistic care.

Contribute to service development and maintain accurate clinical records.

Participate in CPD and other developmental activities.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Qualification from MHWP Training Course / Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner Registration

Desirable criteria

• training in CBT related interventions
• training related to Complex Emotional Needs / cPTSD

Experience/Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Proven experience of working effectively with adults in a mental health setting
• Understanding of complex emotional needs / cPTSD and the approaches used

Desirable criteria

• running/facilitating groups

Skills

Essential criteria

• Is able to deliver a range of brief psychologically informed interventions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• able to be supportive to people who are distressed/traumatised

Desirable criteria

• IT skills
• working in a community setting

personal qualities

Essential criteria

• Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
• Ability to be self directive
• Ability to be self-reflective
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team

Desirable criteria

• ability to manage stress effectively

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.