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Job Title Trainee High Intensity Practitioner – NHS Talking Therapies , Swindon or Wiltshire

Area of Work:  Mental Health

Department:  Swindon Talking Therapies or Wiltshire Talking Therapies 

Base:  Swindon, Devizes or Salisbury

Salary:  Band 6 moving to Band 7 on completion of HI training course and accreditation

Hours per Week:  37.5 hours per week.

Training begins on 24th February 2025 with Reading University.

Please make clear in your application which base you would prefer - Swindon, Devizes or Salisbury.

This is an exciting opportunity to commence a training role within the NHS Talking Therapies service (previously IAPT). The post-holder will work within the Talking Therapies service providing high intensity interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role. This intensive training post will equip the post – holder to provide a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) service to clients with a range of complex problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective. The post holder will work in the service using their newly developed skills whilst attending the training programme.

Working as Trainee High Intensity Therapists as part of the Talking Therapies programme across Swindon, or Wiltshire. You will be enthusiastic, hardworking and have the capability to meet specified targets.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will work within the service to provide high intensity CBT interventions to patients at Step 3 of the Talking Therapies service. HI therapists deliver a variety of CBT interventions, including face to face, video and telephone based work as well as group workshops when qualified.

Swindon Talking Therapies / Wiltshire Talking Therapies is a patient focused and pro-active community based service and has strong links with both GPs and our colleagues in secondary care mental health. We have a strong commitment to delivering high quality community oriented services, and to working in partnership with service users, carers, health and social care agencies and voluntary agencies.

We are a dynamic, supportive and creative service, providing a high level of training and supervision to all clinical practitioners at all levels.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust); a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. 

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.  

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.