Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner

2 months ago


London, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is a Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) post suitable for a qualified CWP or Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP).

The role is based within Greenwich CAMHS which is a large Tier 3 multidisciplinary CAMHS service comprising Generic, LDND, Adolescent, Looked After/Edge of Care, and Early Intervention Schools teams.

The CWP role is to provide screening, assessment and evidence-based, brief outcome-focused interventions for children and young people (CYP) with mental health difficulties and their families. This involves delivery of both individual and group interventions for young people and parents under the supervision of a suitably qualified senior clinician. Additionally, CWPs run workshops, raise awareness of mental health and emotional wellbeing to parent/carers, young people and professionals to promote positive mental health.

Clinicalresponsibilities
1. To provide screening and contribute to mental health assessments of clients referred to CAMHS. The assessment role requires the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate and deliver, under supervision outcome focused, evidence-based individual & group interventions to children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties and their parents. This work may be face to face, telephone or via other media.
3. To plan, develop and deliver programmes designed to support and compliment the work of CAMHS practitioners in order to support the emotional needs of young people as part of the overall CAMHS treatment plan.
4. Provide information and support to children, YP and their parents to access appropriate further help and resources if required. To support the development of evidence-based resources for families referred and attending the service.
5. To use and promote the use of routine outcome measures including session by session monitoring in line with CYP IAPT practice. To work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of goals for interventions and agreed outcomes.
6. To undertake assessment of risk assessment to self and others.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information regarding role responsibilities and requirements



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