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This is an exciting opportunity to work with the Cheshire Mental Health Support Team (MHST) / Access, providing support to parents and caregivers of children and young people. This is a fixed term contract until March 2027.
Band 4 Assistant Practitioner will work with colleagues in MHST/ Access who align closely with the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services, education settings and professionals supporting children, young people and their families. The post involves working alongside or under close supervision of trained practitioners within the MHST/Access service, providing information, advice and direct work with parents and caregivers, supporting delivery of evidence-based interventions. A key aspect of this role will be to support service users to successfully engage in therapeutic parent led interventions.
This is an exciting time for Children and Young People Mental Health Services so please come and be part of the development. We are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join an ever-expanding team.
Band 4 Assistant Practitioner will work with colleagues in MHST/ Access who align closely with the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services, education settings and professionals supporting children, young people and their families
The post involves working alongside or under close supervision of trained practitioners within the MHST/Access service
Providing information, advice and direct work with parents and caregivers
Supporting the delivery of evidence-based interventions
Support service users to successfully engage in therapeutic parent led interventions
Supporting service evaluations
Supporting clinical practitioners in activities which meet the Trust policies and procedures eg. timely record keeping
Co-ordination of parent support groups
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.
We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.
Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.
We also offer up to three weeks’ induction, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you hit the ground running with CWP.
Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.
Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.
At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’
Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.