Band 5 Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner - Swindon

You will deliver well-being focused brief interventions to individuals with CPTSD and other complex emotional difficulties.

In addition to providing time limited brief interventions, you will co-facilitate psychoeducational groups working alongside a multidisciplinary team to provide integrated, trauma-informed care.

You will also be supported to join our training team which has a mandate to provide training to other AWP services on assessing and formulating clients with complex emotional needs.

Working closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver brief, wellbeing-focused, psychologically informed interventions tailored to the needs of clients experiencing Complex PTSD (CPTSD) and Complex Emotional Needs.

Working alongside senior therapists to co-facilitate trauma focused psychoeducational groups and DBT informed skills groups.

Support the wider MDT with assessments and creating personalised treatment plans.

Collaborate with the team to ensure holistic care.

Contribute to service development and maintain accurate clinical records.

Participate in CPD and other developmental activities.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provideHigh Quality, Compassionate Careeverywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Qualifications

Essential: - Qualification from MHWP Training Course / Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner Registration

Desirable: - training in CBT related interventions; - training related to Complex Emotional Needs / cPTSD

Experience/Knowledge

Essential: - Proven experience of working effectively with adults in a mental health setting; - Understanding of complex emotional needs / cPTSD and the approaches used

Desirable: - running/facilitating groups

Skills

Desirable: - IT skills; - working in a community setting

Personal qualities

Desirable: - ability to manage stress effectively