Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner

**Closing Date 05/04/2024**

**TITLE OF POST**: Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner (Time to be Me)

**LOCATION**: Howgill Family Centre, Cleator Moor

**Salary range**: £25,088.96 FTE, From £13.561.60 Pro Rata

**HOWGILL MISSION STATEMENT**:
Howgill Family Centre supports children and families, with particular emphasis on the vulnerable and disadvantaged. Howgill aims to intervene early, helping to prevent families getting into crisis.

**PURPOSE OF POST**:

- to be responsible for the planning and delivery of emotional wellbeing services in the locality
- to be committed to continuing professional development (CPD)
- to build professional relationships with children, families and support professionals
- to understand the nature of how children express themselves and their understanding of the world using play

**RESPONSIBLE TO**:
The Howgill Board of Trustees is the legal employer for this post and exercises the usual responsibilities attendant to this.

The Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner reports to the Howgill Manager.

**MAIN DUTIES**:

- Accept children through self-referral and referrals from other support professionals in organisations such as schools, hospitals, clinics and social services
- Assess each child and their individual needs
- Determine a course of therapeutic play activities
- Provide play activities in individual and group therapy sessions, normally on a weekly basis, to help children better cope with issues they face
- Build up a relationship of trust with children and their parents/carers
- Create a safe and stable environment in which children can express themselves through play
- Review therapeutic interventions on a regular basis
- Work with other healthcare professionals, such as social workers and medical practitioners
- Attend meetings, maintain client records and produce reports on activities and progress.

**GENERIC DUTIES**:

- To develop best practice and identify own development and training opportunities
- To contribute to the development of quality systems within Howgill Family Centre
- To comply with all the policies and procedures of Howgill Family Centre
- To maintain at all times strict confidentiality procedures
- The job description reflects the major tasks to be carried out by the post holders and identifies a level of responsibility at which the post holders will be required to work. In the interest of effective working, major tasks may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changing needs and circumstances. Such reviews and other consequential changes will be carried out in consultation with the post holders. The post holders will also be required to carry out such duties as may be determined from time to time to be within the general scope of the post.

**Safer Recruitment: Howgill Family Centre are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and families. This post will require an enhanced DBS Disclosure, together with all other relevant recruitment checks.**

**Elizabeth Martindale**

**Operations support officer, Howgill Family Centre,**

**Birks Road**

**Cleator Moor**

**Cumbria**

**CA25 5HR**

**Tel: 01946 817900**

Howgill is a Registered Charity (No 519278) and Company Limited by Guarantee.

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: £13,561.60 per year

Expected hours: 20 - 25 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 14/12/2020
Reference ID: Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner
Expected start date: 25/01/2021