Post Graduate Certificate CYP IAPT Trainee Practitioner

The course runs from Jan 2025 and you will need to be available for the start of the course to qualify for this post. The course is provided through the CYP-IAPT training programme, delivered by the Psychological Therapies Training Centre at Prestwich. Their courses are highly regarded as providing high quality training with extensive supervision and support. The training will be a mix of on-line and face to face delivery, dependent on covid restrictions. As a PGCert. trainee you will attend the training centre in Prestwich 2 day per week with 3 days in your service. Half of your time in the service will be course related and half will be as a member of the core team in which you are based. In your service you will be a valued member of the multi-disciplinary team offering a balance of generic assessments and therapy to a caseload of clients. You will have access to the full support of the team and opportunities to cross team work and have experience of working in innovative ways
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Are you a qualified and registered nurse, social worker or OT with child mental health experience and a desire to learn and develop new therapeutic skills? Are you committed to providing high quality, evidenced based care in the form of therapy to children and young people If so, we want to hear from you. This is a recruit to train post where you will be trained in delivering Video Interactive Guidance, attachment based therapies working across Building Attachment and Bond Service .

This post is subject to an enhanced with children's and adult's barred listDisclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.