Children's Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner

6 months ago

Swansea, United Kingdom Swansea & Brecon DSBR (Faith in Families) Full time

**JOB TITLE**:Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner

**REPORTS TO**:Brighter Futures Project Lead

**LOCATION**:Clase Community Cwtch’s.

30 hours per week

**Job Purpose/Summary**:
To provide 1-2-1 interventions for children who require extra support with: Understanding and managing strong emotions, processing traumatic events, attachment difficulties, anxiety, self-esteem, family relationships, to name just a few. Our approach is trauma informed and works with the understanding that behaviours and emotions, especially difficult ones, are often an understandable response to a challenging situation. We focus on the strengths of young people and the small things we can do every day to support our wellbeing. The project supports children and young people to not only understand their emotions but to regulate them. Through support, children can communicate their emotional needs as well as use various proven emotional regulation tools to soothe themselves in times of distress. Children then feel more confident once support has ended to take on any tough life experiences without the help of services.

To provide a high-quality service for children and their families in the communities we serve. To this end provide:
Positive connections, proven intervention, in a warm safe environment that will enhance the physical, emotional, and educational development.

**Main tasks**

1. Provide targeted non-intrusive therapeutic 1-2-1 and group support for young people with low level mental health and emotional wellbeing concerns.

2. To deliver a trauma informed approach, recognising the signs and symptoms of trauma in young people and their support networks.

3. To develop positive relationships with young people and where appropriate their families and support network, encouraging active engagement and participation.

4. To act as an advocate for young people to ensure their voice is heard.

5. To motivate, encourage and work creatively to engage young people and where appropriate their families/support network to improve outcomes.

6. To manage and maintain a case load.

7. To undertake initial assessments, jointly identify goals and develop personalised plans with individuals, identifying support needs to ensure maximum engagement in improving health and well-being.

8. To coordinate delivery of interventions and positive activities at times and in places that are accessible for young people and their families/support network.

9. To maintain accurate records and produce regular reports for the monitoring requirements

10. To actively promote the services of the Community Cwtch's and act as a link for children, parents and/or their carers.

11. To assist with the delivery of universal and targeted services for children, their parents and carers.

12. To encourage children/parents to become involved in the Cwtch activities by identifying services they might benefit from and actively promote the opportunities at the Cwtch's.

13. To signpost, and where appropriate refer, parents to other services delivered by other agencies.

14. To record and retain appropriately all contact and activities with service users as required for monitoring and evaluation purposes. Ensuring at all times confidentiality and professional boundaries are maintained.

15. To work in partnership and build and maintain relationships with internal colleagues and external agencies to fill the gaps in provision for children and their families who find it difficult to access services. e.g. working closely with the child and family workers, local schools, health visitors and networks.

16. To share information and concerns with their line manager and/or other appropriate staff, or with parents as appropriate to support children and their families and to adhere to safeguarding and child protection policies in all aspects of their role

17. To promote a positive image of Faith in Families, representing the organisation and the projects to increase professional and public awareness of all the organisations work and of the views and needs of service users.

18. To work flexibly as may be required by the needs of the service and carry out any other reasonable duties as required.

19. To attend meetings that involve service users, partner agencies and our staff, ensuring appropriate preparation to represent the views and needs of service users and Faith in

Families.

20. Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusive practices, including listening to seldom heard voices.

21. To ensure that Faith in Families Human Resources practices and policies are applied.

22. To be prepared to use and contribute to regular supervision and be committed to personal development of skills and abilities

23. To be able to have fun

**General**
- Achieve the highest standards of safeguarding, whether through direct care provision or support activities to the children and families who come into contact with our services, or by appropriately reporting concerns about any child or fa

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