Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

Tokitan.TV; Haywards Heath; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health service provider in Haywards Heath is seeking a trainee for a training role in delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners. You will work under supervision, delivering evidence-based wellbeing interventions and coordinating care with service users. Applicants must be enrolled in a relevant graduate or postgraduate training program.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training.
• Ability to work alongside service users and multidisciplinary team members.
• Skill in delivering wellbeing-focused interventions based on cognitive-behavioural principles.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate care with service users and their families.
• Support collaborative decision-making about care and treatment.
• Attend all elements of the training programme and assessments.

Job description

This is a training role within the NMHTs. The post-holder will be enrolled in a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners. The post-holder will attend all elements of the programme of study and progress successfully through assessments of competence and attainment. In the remaining part of the week they will work as a trainee in the service, under close supervision and regular course assessment of practice competence.

They will work within the limits of their experience and assessed competence for their stage of training: To work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision making about care and treatment. To deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.