Therapeutic Practitioner

Application closing date
07/04/2024
- Location
Halifax
- Salary
£36,860 - £42,390 per annum.
- Package
Permanent. Full time.
- Job category/type
External Organisation
- Attachments
- Blank

**Therapeutic Practitioner - Northpoint Wellbeing Ltd**:

- Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified and experienced professional to join the Northpoint Open Minds (CAMHS) team as a therapeutic practitioner, delivering mental health support to children, young people and their parents/carers across Calderdale.

We work across community settings and strive to place the young person at the centre of care planning. Due to an expansion of the service, we have a full-time permanent position available.

The principal areas of the post include:
1. Assess the strengths and needs of children, young people and their parents/carers.
2. Support children, young people and their parents/carers to access community-based services and self-help resources.
3. Deliver short-term, evidence-based treatment which involves working with service users to help them identify their goals, measure progress, and celebrate success.
4. Work alongside/provide support to partner agencies, including schools, specialist CAMHS, third sector providers and universal services.

Open Minds (CAMHS) is delivered in partnership between Northpoint and South West Yorkshire Partnership Trust (SWYPT).

We work as part of the wider Open Minds partnership, which is a network of statutory and voluntary organisations delivering mental health and emotional wellbeing services for children and young people.

This post will be employed by and based within Northpoint, a local charity that provides a range of services to promote emotional wellbeing. We believe that timely access to appropriate support, particularly talking therapies, is an effective way of promoting emotional wellbeing and relieving mental distress, for people of all ages and backgrounds.

**Closing Date 7**th** of April 2024.**
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- Job title- Therapeutic Practitioner - Northpoint Wellbeing Ltd- Application closing date- 07/04/2024- Location- Halifax- Salary- £36,860 - £42,390 per annum.- Package- Permanent. Full time.- Job category/type- External Organisation- Attachments- Blank- Job descriptionThis is an exciting opportunity for a qualified and experienced professional to join the Northpoint Open Minds (CAMHS) team as a therapeutic practitioner, delivering mental health support to children, young people and their parents/carers across Calderdale.

We work across community settings and strive to place the young person at the centre of care planning. Due to an expansion of the service, we have a full-time permanent position available.

The principal areas of the post include:
1. Assess the strengths and needs of children, young people and their parents/carers.
2. Support children, young people and their parents/carers to access community-based services and self-help resources.
3. Deliver short-term, evidence-based treatment which involves working with service users to help them identify their goals, measure progress, and celebrate success.
4. Work alongside/provide support to partner agencies, including schools, specialist CAMHS, third sector providers and universal services.

Open Minds (CAMHS) is delivered in partnership between Northpoint and South West Yorkshire Partnership Trust (SWYPT).

We work as part of the wider Open Minds partnership, which is a network of statutory and voluntary organisations delivering mental health and emotional wellbeing services for children and young people.

This post will be employed by and based within Northpoint, a local charity that provides a range of services to promote emotional wellbeing. We believe that timely access to appropriate support, particularly talking therapies, is an effective way of promoting emotional wellbeing and relieving mental distress, for people of all ages and backgrounds.

**Closing Date 7**th** of April 2024.