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  1. Mental health and wellbeing practitioner

    Mental health and wellbeing practitioners (MHWPs) provide evidence-based interventions and co-ordinate care plans for adults with severe mental health problems.

    You will need the right aptitude to learn how to work collaboratively in a mental health team. You’ll need to be able to demonstrate a willingness to work in a hopeful and productive way with adults with severe mental health problems. Being able to demonstrate your ability to study at degree level or above is important.
    While you train, you’ll spend one day a week studying at university and three to four days working in or undertaking specific training tasks in a community mental health service. Once qualified, you’ll spend at least 20 hours a week seeing patients. You'll be paid on Agenda for change band 4 while you train, moving to band 5 once you qualify.
    Most importantly you need a willingness to work in a hopeful and productive way with adults with severe mental health problems. You'll also have excellent interpersonal skills, be able to build trusting and productive relationships with a range of people, work well within a multidisciplinary team, and have a good understanding of mental health issues.
    You could move to a supervisory role, teach others or undertake further training in another psychological profession such as CBT therapy or clinical psychology.
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