The Greenwich West ADAPT (Anxiety, Depression, Affective, Personality, Trauma) have an exciting opportunity for a trainee Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner. We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join the team.
Your one year training will be fully funded by the NHS, and you will be eligible for a full-time qualified position if you pass the course. In return, we ask that you commit to staying with us for at least two years after you qualify. These posts are suitable for graduates, who have the right personal qualities. This role will contribute to ensuring adults with severe mental health problems have greater access to psychologically informed interventions.
Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioners provide effective mental health support to people calling the service who may be experiencing a mental health crisis. This may include triage and risk assessments, and brief psychosocial interventions.
The Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner will:
Attend all elements of the training programme of study and progress successfully through assessments of competence and attainment
Work in a community mental health service when not completing the programme of study
Develop and practice psychologically-informed interventions under supervision, working directly with adults in the community
Support collaborative care planning, alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team
Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver a set of brief wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions - not therapy - for example:
Behavioural Activation and Graded Exposure using the "GOALS" programme
Problem-solving
Improving sleep
Recognising and managing emotions
Confidence building
The Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner will be required to :
Demonstrate the ability to work at degree level
Have experience of work interacting with the public, working as part of a team, analysing complex information and communicating effectively
Demonstrate the ability to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress, their families and carers
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health, care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We're Kind
We're
We Listen
We Care
As a Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will be expected to work under supervision as part of a dynamic mental health team delivering psychologically informed interventions and supporting service users to receive the right care. You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with severe mental health problems.
During the one-year postgraduate certificate training, you will, under supervision, develop knowledge and practice skills to employ wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions for serious mental health problems for adults individually and in groups, as well as support their families and carers, in line with the education providers expectations.