Job overview

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with an interest and commitment in supporting  people living with complex mental health conditions to join our Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) as a Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (PGCert or GradCert). 

This is an exciting role created by Health Education England and NHS England and Improvement to support the transformation of adult community mental health services.

Your training will be fully funded (band 4), and you will be eligible for a full-time qualified position if you pass the course (band 5). In return, we ask that you commit to staying with us for at least two years after you qualify.

Main duties of the job

To support people with severe mental health problems, their families and carers with collaborative care planning / decision-making about patient care and treatment.

To deliver 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. 

Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.

Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation.

To work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.

To attend multi-disciplinary reviews and act as a keyworker, for a caseload of service users in order to support and monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.

To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users.

To deliver specified wellbeing-focused, psychologically informed interventions, in line with the best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT Therapist.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. 

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.  

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

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.