Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners Lambeth Inpatients

Job description
We are looking for highly motivated individuals to join our inpatient teams as Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners. Several posts are available for the wards currently at Lambeth Hospital, moving in the near future to new premises at the Maudsley Hospital site in Camberwell. This is an exciting new development for this role created by NHS England to support the transformation of adult mental health care. Your training will be fully funded by the NHS, and you will be employed for a fixed term training post while you are successfully engaged with the training programme. You will not be able to apply to any other NHSE funded psychological therapy professions training for two years after the expected completion date of the course.

This role will contribute to ensuring adults with acute presentations of severe mental health problems receive trauma informed care and have greater access to psychologically informed interventions.

Please note: The trainee mental health wellbeing practitioner posts are training positions. Successful candidates will be expected to study at University College London and may need to travel to campus, and will need to travel to the hospital site for their clinical work. Out of hours and shift working (not nights) will be required to suit the ward working pattern.

We are committed to developing a team that is fully representative of the communities that we serve.

As a Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will be expected to work under supervision as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting adults to receive the right care in an acute setting. You will need to have flexibility and adaptability and a passion for working with adults with severe mental health problems.

During the one-year graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training, you will, under supervision, develop knowledge and practice skills to provide care as part of the MDT, working across the nursing team and employing wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions for serious mental health problems for adults individually and in groups, as well as supporting their families and carers, in line with the education providers expectations.

The second largest inner London Borough with an official population of around 350,000. The local population has needs related to a high level of social deprivation such as unemployment, poor social housing and child poverty. There are also pockets of greater affluence. There are high levels of morbidity, and levels and complexity of mental health problems are above the national average

Lambeth Hospital comprises five acute wards, a psychiatric intensive care unit, and a rehabilitation ward.

The Trust: The South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust is part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) and committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, and some more specialist services to people from across the UK.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Suzanne Jolley Job title: Co-lead Secondary Care Psychological Therapies Email address: suzanne.jolley@slam.nhs.uk Telephone number: