Family Care Practitioner

2 months ago

Bedford, United Kingdom CHUMS CIC Full time

**Job Title**: Family Care Practitioner - Emotional Wellbeing Service

**Band**: 6

**Reporting to**: EWS Service Manager

**Accountable to**: CHUMS Clinical Lead

**Contract**:FTC to perm, 12 months initially, part-time, flexible hours

**JOB PURPOSE**:
The Family Care Practitioner will be responsible for supporting the Emotional Wellbeing Service in the delivery of timely psychological interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate emotional wellbeing or mental health difficulties. Support will also be offered to their families as well as professionals working with children and young people in Bedfordshire.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Provide family and individual support to enhance communication in the family and to implement strategies to empower parents/carers to support their children.
- To provide individual support to children and young people to help them understand some of the difficulties/feelings they are experiencing and empower them to understand why some of these issues occur and how they might best deal with them in the future.
- To provide support to professionals in school and other environments to enable them to support children/young people in their care with a variety of emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.
- Assist with the service’s strategy for working with schools and other agencies working with children and young people in Bedfordshire.
- Promote the work of the service.
- Assist in the organisation and delivery of various workshop/group programmes for children/young people and their parents/carers.
- Deliver training on emotional wellbeing and positive mental health in children and young people to professionals in a variety of settings
- To be a source of advice, information and assistance to families and partner organisations, particularly schools, health and social
- Participate in appraisal, development and evaluation of the service
- Develop resources for use by volunteers and schools.

**Key relationships**:

- CHUMS CEO
- Emotional Wellbeing Support Service staff
- Child bereavement and trauma team
- CHUMS volunteer team
- School staff
- Families
- CAMHS
- Other volunteering agencies (i.e. Relate, Sorted, Plan B)

**Analytical and Judgemental**:

- Required to understand complex facts of situations with children/young people and their families which require a comparison of a range of options. Undertake initial assessment of children’s and families needs which may include multiple and complex issues, including being able to identify clinical and safeguarding risk and manage it appropriately.
- To provide appropriate information to families and professionals about the needs of children and young people with a variety of mild to moderate emotional wellbeing or mental health difficulties.
- To be aware of referral on to other appropriate agencies
- To work within the remit of the service and your skill base and seek supervision appropriately.

**Planning and Organisation**:

- Manage own diary and caseload.
- Assist in the co-ordination of workshops for children, young people and their families.
- Plan, develop and facilitate ongoing support in the form of parents groups, drop in facilities.
- To assist in the planning and delivering of training programmes to professionals on working with children and young people with a range of mild to moderate emotional wellbeing or mental health difficulties.
- To assist with the formulation of plans for service development in conjunction with the CEO and other members of the child bereavement, trauma and emotional wellbeing teams.

**Physical**:

- Combination of sitting, standing, walking, frequently in a restricted position.
- Frequent travel across the county.
- Frequent lifting of resources.
- Keyboard skills.
- Assessment tools.

**Patient and Client Care**:

- Develop and deliver therapeutic care interventions to children, young people and their families.
- Support volunteers to deliver appropriate care interventions to children and their families.
- Provide specialist advice to families and other professionals on a range of mild to moderate emotional wellbeing and mental health issues affecting children and young people.

**Person Specification**

**Education & Qualifications**

**Essential**
- Health, education, social care or counselling qualification
- Knowledge of child development
- Safeguarding children (level 2)
- Safeguarding adults (level 1)
- Membership of appropriate professional body e.g. HCPC, BACP and working towards accreditation or accredited

**Desirable**
- Child and Adolescent counselling certificate
- Computer, IT skills

**Knowledge, Skills & Experience**

**Essential**
- Good understanding of the needs of children/young people and their families with a variety of mild to moderate emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties
- Experience of working with children and young people in both a group and individual setting
- Experience of facilitating groups
- Experienc

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