Child Wellbeing Practitioner

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Whittington Health NHS Trust Full time

We are recruiting a Qualified Child Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP) to join the CWP service linked to Islington Community CAMHS. The Children’s Well-being Service is located within the Social Emotional Mental Health Pathway alongside CAMHS, Local Authority and 3rdSector Mental Health Service providers. Referrals are received through a Central Point of Access.

This post involves working as a Children’s Well Being Practitioner part of the Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme. The children and young people that the post holders will work with have mild to moderate emotional/behavioural difficulties.

CWPs deliver guided self-help for children and young people (2-18 years) experiencing low intensity anxiety, low mood and behaviour problems in a variety of forms and settings, e.g. 1:1 work, group work, psycho-educational workshops. They are also involved in the support of the trainee CWPs in the service and contribute towards the development of this exciting new service. The CWPs are managed and supervised by Islington CAMHS and will also outreach to schools and other community settings.

**This post will require**:

- A Postgraduate Certificate in Child and Young Persons Psychological Wellbeing Practice
- Strong communication skills
- The ability to work cohesively within a small team
- Motivation to learn and to be challenged
- Good organisational skills
- Experience of working within a mental health setting or school pastoral care
- Experience of working with children and an understanding of how to talk with them
- Commitment to using data and relevant measures to assess clinical outcomes.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Therapeutic skills

1.1. Assess and deliver, under supervision outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

1.2. Working in partnership, support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.

1.3. Work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.

1.4 Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about the intervention.

1.5. Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.

1.6. Accept referrals within agreed national and local protocols.

1.7. Undertakes accurate assessment of risk to self and others.

1.8. Adhere to the service referral protocols. Under supervision signpost unsuitable referrals to the relevant service as necessary.

1.9. Through close case management and supervision, escalate cases where the level of need becomes beyond scope, or more severe ensuring adherence to other relevant elements of service delivery.

1.10. Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments. This may include guided self-help. This work may be face-to-face, by telephone or via other media.

1.11. Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered, and sessions carried out per week in order to improve timely access and minimise waiting times.

1.12. Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or CYP in treatment, where appropriate.

1.13. Keep coherent records of all activity in line with service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making. Complete all requirements relating to data collection.

1.14. Assess and integrate issues relating to transitions, education and training/employment into the overall therapeutic process.

1.15. Work within a collaborative approach involving a range of relevant others when indicated.

1.16. Work in collaboration with children, young people and communities to enhance and widen access.

TRAINING AND SUPERVISION

2.1. Receive regular case management supervision from a Clinical Psychologist within the team.

2.2 Prepare and present case load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the t

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