Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- 12 months (12 months Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-PC-20685
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Woodside
- Town
- Hellingly
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 4
Come and join us
We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
We are recruiting for Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to join Sussex Partnership Trust working in either the East Sussex NHS Talking Therapies service (Health in Mind) or Brighton and Hove NHS Talking Therapies service (Brighton Wellbeing service).
Successful candidates will be employed full time by Sussex Partnership NHS Trust and will attend University 2 days per week and the remainder of the working week in service delivering treatments and assessments to Health in Mind or Brighton and Hove Wellbeing service users.
As well as attending University in person you will be required to work a minimum of 2 days at a base in East Sussex or in Brighton and Hove
NHS Talking Therapies services provide evidence-based treatments for people with depression and/or a range of anxiety-based difficulties within primary care.
Please see our websites for further information www.healthinmind.org.uk/ and www.brightonandhovewellbeing.org/
Main duties of the job
As a Trainee PWP you will be responsible for your own caseload, offering high quality, evidence-based low intensity interventions including: telephone, face to face, groups, and online sessions. Alongside your clinical work, you will be studying with the University of Exeter working toward a PGCert or GradCert in Psychological Therapies Practice.
The course itself consists of 45 training days, 30 of which are ‘taught’ and 15 of which are directed study days. The University will be using a mixed model of delivery including remote online lectures, workshops and tutorials, some of which will be F2F in London.
To succeed in this role, you will have excellent interpersonal skills and proven experience of working with people to improve their mental health & wellbeing. You will be educated to degree level, preferably in a related field (e.g. psychology) but there is also the opportunity to access the undergraduate route if you do not have a degree level education.
If successful, you will be based in one of the following areas across East Sussex:
· Brighton & Hove, Eastbourne, Hastings or High Weald/Lewes
We will ask your preference at interview and will try to accommodate preference where possible
Working for our organisation
- The opportunity to work in a highly successful service, to be an integral part of our current Talking Therapies expansion and to be part of our team
- The opportunity to gain a recognised qualification and accreditation with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
- A dedicated team who will support you through your training year
- High quality supervision both within your service and with the University
- All the autonomy and responsibility you need to manage your caseload
- Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes, run by our internal wellbeing team
- Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
- A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC
- The opportunity to move to a B5 substantive post following successful completion of the training course and application for accreditation with the BABCP
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We strongly encourage you to check the job description and the core profession criteria carefully before applying for this post. Please explicitly state how you meet these criteria in your supporting information as this plays a significant role in our shortlisting process.
Please be aware due to the high volume of emails we receive regarding these vacancies, we unfortunately cannot answer questions that are related to your eligibility for the course. We ask you to complete your own research using the information provided within this advert, job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working with people, preferably for at least 1 year, who have suffered with a mental health problem
- Psychology or other health related undergraduate degree.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working with people who have experienced a mental health problem in a professional capacity
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
- Able to write clear reports and letters.
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Puxted
- Job title
- PWP Lead, Trainees
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 0030 130
- Additional information
Additional contact information:
Contact name: Faye Oxley
Contact job Title: Trainee Lead
Contact email address: [email protected]
Contact telephone number: 0300 00 200 60
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