Trainee Youth Intensive Psychological Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are looking for highly motivated individuals to join our team as Trainee Youth Intensive Psychological Practitioners.

This is an exciting new role being piloted by Health Education England and NHS England to support the transformation of children and young people's inpatient and intensive community mental health services.

This is a fully salaried position, your training will also be fully funded by the NHS, and you will be eligible for a full-time qualified position when you pass the course.

You will be trained to work with children, young people and their families.

You will support young people when they're severely mentally unwell - requiring inpatient hospital admission or receiving care as a family intensively at home.

With a dynamic multi-disciplinary mental health team of health and social care professionals, you will create psychological formulations and plan care and deliver psychologically informed interventions under supervision.

You will work to ensure young people receive the right care in the right place - helping to avoid unnecessary inpatient care or helping to reduce the length of admissions that young people need and supporting them at home.

During the one-year postgraduate certificate training, you will develop knowledge and practice skills and, work under supervision to develop psychological formulations and employ psychologically informed interventions in line with the university's expectations.