Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Please have a read the 'Information for Applicants' attachment for details on how to apply

London wide Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme (IAPT) for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs)

Psychological therapies services across London are recruiting traineePWPsas part of the IAPT programme to deliver evidence based psychological therapies for people with anxiety and depression.

PWPs provide brief structured supported treatments such as guided self-help.

PWPs work with people across the adult age range.

We are keen to recruit a workforce that is representative of the diverse local London population.

Applicants should have experience of working with people with psychological, interpersonal or social problems; either through employed positions or formal volunteer roles.
The course is a postgraduate certificate and applicants are required to demonstrate aptitude to study at postgraduate level, either through degree level education or demonstration of academic equivalence.

PWP trainingis provided by University College London (UCL) and is full time. Trainees attend university one day a week and work in service the remaining 4 days a week. Trainees will be employed in an IAPT psychological treatment service. Training course fees on this programme are fully funded by the NHS.

In addition, trainees will receive a salary from the London IAPT service where they undertake their 4-day a week placement over the year of the programme.

In previous years, this has been a full-time employed position at NHS band 4.

Please have a read the 'Information for Applicants' attachment for details on how to apply

This is a training role within the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme (IAPT).

The post-holder will work within the IAPT service providing high volume low intensity interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role.

The training post will equip the post - holder to provide a range of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based self
- management interventions to clients with mild to moderate anxiety and depression. The post
- holder will attend all taught and self-study days required by the education provider, as specified within National Low Intensity curriculum and work in the service for the remaining days of the week using their newly developed skills
The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages,