Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Job description

Main area: Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner - Band 5 Grade NHS AfC: Band 5

Contract: Permanent

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Fixed Term) Job ref: 395-PP260-24-A

Site: Highlands House Children & Young People’s Mental Health Service (CYPMHS), Tunbridge Wells

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 24/02/2025 23:59

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.

Job overview

We are looking for a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) to support our team and department. The successful candidate will provide high-quality, concise, outcome-focused, evidence-based interventions for children and young people (CYP) experiencing mild to moderate mental health challenges, with clinical supervision and support from a CWP supervisor and other qualified clinicians.

The role involves regularly measuring clinical outcomes and providing evidence-based clinical interventions, in accordance with the CYP-IAPT program.

The postholder must possess a CWP qualification (e.g. Postgraduate Certificate in Child and Young Persons Psychological Wellbeing Practice) or equivalent, demonstrating the necessary knowledge, attitude, and capabilities to function effectively within an inclusive, value-driven service.

Main duties of the job

As a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP), you hold a unique role in triaging patients according to their needs and directing them to other services, including voluntary services and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). The postholder will collaborate with a broader team dedicated to supporting children, young people, and their families and carers by:

• Establishing connections with other services to ensure children and young people are referred to the most appropriate services for their needs.
• Communicating effectively with children, young people, and their families and carers during the referral process.
• Identifying services that can offer continued support after therapy concludes, such as youth groups.
• Developing a mutual understanding of which referrals are appropriate for CAMHS.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy.
• Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr Children's Wellbeing Practitioner course.
• Appropriate registration with either the BABCP or BPS as a low intensity practitioner.

Experience

• Evidence of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties.
• Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with mental health problems.
• Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of assessment carried out autonomously to determine the most appropriate treatment plan.
• Experience of providing individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old.
• Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working in mental health or related services.

Knowledge

• An awareness of NHS priorities and the theory and practice of clinical interventions in CAMHS.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies.
• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence-based practice including NICE guidelines.
• Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk.

Skills

• Basic awareness of IT and IT skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively on complex and sensitive matters.
• Capacity to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Ability to plan and organise own workload and time.

Other

• To work within the Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics.
• Full, enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure for the role.
• To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area.
• Able to form good working relationships in multi-disciplinary settings.

We believe in bringing your authentic self to work to deliver the best care to our patients.

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community.