Children's Wellbeing Practitoner

6 months ago


Northampton, United Kingdom Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP), Band 5 in Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner Pathway.

Are you looking to work in a supportive, collaborative early intervention service who can offer career progression and training opportunities?

Here is a great opportunity to join our expanding service.

As a CWP, you will be expected to work as part of a dynamic service closely aligned with our mental health support team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged. You will received regular supervision.

This approach requires flexibility and working in community settings and schools. We encourage CPD and will continue to support you to consolidate and develop your skills. You will be able to use your skills via direct individual and group work to support children, young people and their parents.

There will be an expectation and opportunities to work collaboratively with children, young people and their families to support the co-production and development of the service, creating meaningful participation work.

CWP accreditation expected, we welcome CWPs, EMHPs and PWPs with the appropriate and transferable skills.

As a qualified Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner(CWP) you will be expected to work as part of a dynamic team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged. This approach requires flexibility and adaptability, and above all a passion for working with children and young people in the community and educational settings. The post-holder will already have developed knowledge and practice skills to employ a range of evidence based interventions for common mental health problems via direct individual and group support for children, young people and their parents.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

**The Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner role will**:
Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals delivering a wide range of evidence informed interventions.

Employ developed evidence-based skills to work directly with children, young people and families.

Employ developed evidence-based skills to carry out holistic and child-centered mental health assessments, including risk assessments.

Employ developed evidence-based skills to facilitate parenting programmes.

**The Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner is required to**:
Have the relevant CWP or EMHP Post Graduate Diploma qualification following the completion of a CYP IAPT approved training in Evidence -Based Psychological Treatment for Children Young People (C&Y IAPT) (successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1 year ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course). Or Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) CYP-IAPT qualification

Evidence of continuing Professional Development and commitment of ongoing learning.

Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others.

Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders

Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or mental health difficulties

**Please note**: The CWP post be within a service covering the county of Northamptonshire and will be based across Northamptonshire.

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.



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