Trainee Mental Health Well-being Practitioner - Dartford, United Kingdom - Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

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Dartford, United Kingdom

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Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners

Please see the full job advertisement in the attached document - essential reading for all applicants.

We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new role in psychological practice, the Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP).

MHWPs are one of the key psychological professions that will help us to deliver the NHS Long Term Plan to meet the psychological needs of older people with complex needs living in Kent & Medway.

We are particularly keen to attract a diverse range of people from our local Kent & Medway communities into these exciting new roles.

We are committed to ensuring that KMPT becomes a more equal, less discriminatory and inclusive Trust.

We believe that we can only achieve this through specific actions focussed on diversity, equality and inclusion, acting against inequality, discrimination and injustice.

This includes recruitment.

Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners

Please see the full job advertisement in the attached document - essential reading for all applicants.

The qualification options are a Postgraduate Certificate or a Graduate Certificate both at Oxfordhealth.

Trainee MHWPs will be paid at Agenda for Change Band 4 to train and would then qualify and be employable at Agenda for Change Band 5.

Qualified MHWPs working in the community will contribute to the evidence-based, psychologically informed interventions delivered within KMPT's older people's services and their clinical care pathways.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners

Please see the full job advertisement in the attached document - essential reading for all applicants.

Trainee MHWPs will be employed on a fixed-term contract by KMPT to work within a local community setting for twelve months.

While at work trainees will be learning the skills they will need to qualify as a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner.

This will be through work-based learning and day release to Oxfordhealth. Once trainees complete the postgraduate/graduate certificate they will then be eligible for positions as a qualified MHWP within KMPT.