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At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism.
We invite applications for an enthusiastic and compassionate new team of five mental health and wellbeing practitioners to work within our community mental health services across Coventry and Warwickshire.
This is an exciting, brand-new 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 by the NHS, and you will be eligible for a full-time qualified position if you pass the course. These posts are suitable for both graduates (e.g., psychology) and non-graduates, who have the right mental health experience and personal qualities. This role will contribute to ensuring adults with severe mental health problems have greater access to psychologically informed interventions.
What Grade Will I Be?
As a trainee mental health and wellbeing practitioner, you’ll be paid on the Agenda for Change (AFC) pay system commencing at Band 4
.
After qualifying, you’ll be paid at Band 5.
You will be involved in the delivery of psychological interventions within a community mental health setting.
Role
The role involves seeing adult patients, in person or via video link, who have been referred by GPs and other local services and providing psychological support for them in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team. This will include providing the following psychological interventions:
- behavioural activation and graded exposure using the ‘GOALS’ programme
- problem-solving
- improving sleep
- recognising and managing emotions
- confidence building
- support with managing medicines management
- Providing care management support, such as connecting service users with other agencies.
You’ll work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team to promote good mental health and recovery from severe mental health problems.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism
services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as
they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These Include
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching
and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS
discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support groups
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our
values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Angela Rowley Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: Telephone number:
We invite applications for an enthusiastic and compassionate new team of five mental health and wellbeing practitioners to work within our community mental health services across Coventry and Warwickshire.
This is an exciting, brand-new 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 by the NHS, and you will be eligible for a full-time qualified position if you pass the course. These posts are suitable for both graduates (e.g., psychology) and non-graduates, who have the right mental health experience and personal qualities. This role will contribute to ensuring adults with severe mental health problems have greater access to psychologically informed interventions.
What Grade Will I Be?
As a trainee mental health and wellbeing practitioner, you’ll be paid on the Agenda for Change (AFC) pay system commencing at Band 4
.
After qualifying, you’ll be paid at Band 5.
You will be involved in the delivery of psychological interventions within a community mental health setting.
Role
The role involves seeing adult patients, in person or via video link, who have been referred by GPs and other local services and providing psychological support for them in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team. This will include providing the following psychological interventions:
- behavioural activation and graded exposure using the ‘GOALS’ programme
- problem-solving
- improving sleep
- recognising and managing emotions
- confidence building
- support with managing medicines management
- Providing care management support, such as connecting service users with other agencies.
You’ll work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team to promote good mental health and recovery from severe mental health problems.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism
services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as
they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These Include
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching
and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS
discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support groups
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our
values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Angela Rowley Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: Telephone number: