Trainee Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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

About us

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

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Greenwich West ADAPT

68a The Heights

London

SE7 8JH

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Greenwich West ADAPT

68a The Heights

London

SE7 8JH

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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