Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Job locations \- various across Merseyside (St Helens, Knowsley, Halton)
Using talking therapies Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs) in IAPT services support people with mild to moderate mental health problems such as anxiety and depression and can include people with long term physical health conditions such as diabetes and respiratory problems. This training post will equip you to provide guided low intensity interventions and progress to working with a high degree of autonomy. You will be supported in the completion of both your academic study and clinical delivery by skilled and experienced supervisors.
Successful applicants will be expected to enrol with the allocated university at which they will spend the ‘taught’ part of the week during the initial training. There will be some self\-directed study outside of the working hours.
Successful completion of the training programme will result in a post\-graduate certificate (level 7\) or a graduate certificate (level 6\) PWP IAPT Practitioner and the offer of a permanent PWP position.
We are looking for people with a commitment to scientific practice, a willingness to learn new skills and a desire to improve the health and wellbeing of people with a range of common mental disorders such as anxiety and depression
In this training role, you will provide Step 2 Guided Self\-Help Low Intensity Interventions whilst undertaking studies at the allocated education provider (please refer to the information in the supporting documents section).
Both trainee and qualified PWPs play a critical role in helping shape the future direction of the IAPT service by delivering high quality evidence\-based interventions. The role involves undertaking initial assessments and holding a clinical caseload. You will be supported in the completion of both your academic study and clinical delivery by skilled and experienced supervisors.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1\.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
You must have experience of working in or volunteering in a health or social care setting and be able to demonstrate that you can meet the academic requirements of this training role. You should have a real interest in helping people with anxiety and depression and demonstrate the ability to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients to achieve a level of recovery to improve their overall wellbeing and day to day life.
Please take time to read the full job advert and the job description/person specification in the Supporting Documents. In your application please include how you meet the person specification criteria you will be shortlisted against at the application stage.
Within the application form you will be asked for your service preferences (first, second and third choices). The supporting information includes a description about each IAPT service and their contact details.
Good luck with your application.
Interviews for this post will be held remotely via Microsoft Teams.
For help with your application please contact the individual service – you will find their contact details in the Service Descriptions (see Supporting Documents section)
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