Qualified Child Wellbeing Practitioner

3 days ago

Romford, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

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Job overview

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and creative Children and Young Person's Wellbeing Practitioner's (CWP) to join our teams in the London Borough of Havering CAMHS.

The new qualified CWP role supports the government's priority of increasing access and availability of mental health and well-being support for children and young people. The post holder will demonstrate an active interest in early intervention, prevention and promotion, clinical work in community settings, collaborative practice and be skilled in delivering low intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy interventions.

This position is part of the Havering CAMH service which is a multi-disciplinary service providing specialist mental health support to children, young people and their families. The service is available to families with children and young people from birth to their 18th birthday. The service provides a range of community based, multi-disciplinary interventions, as well as specialist treatments and consultation to partnership agencies. 

Main duties of the job

CWP's provide Early Intervention, Prevention and Promotion working in partnership to provide support for mild to moderate difficulties using evidence based guided self-help interventions to both parents and young people. In addition to the low intensity face to face manualised interventions, the post holder will provide psycho education, specific groups, signposting of more complex cases, adopting a community approach to mental health and wellbeing. 

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement – London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

A Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma in Child and Young Person’s Psychological Wellbeing Practice from an accredited training provider

Desirable criteria

Psychology or other health /social care/youth related undergraduate degree Other relevant postgraduate degree

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with children and young people as a Child Wellbeing Practitioner Experience in providing CBT interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate anxiety, low mood and common behavioural difficulties

Desirable criteria

Experience working as part of a team Experience of working in mental health or related services Experience of working with other agencies outside of the NHS Worked in a service where agreed targets in place to demonstrating outcomes

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria

Demonstrates an understanding of children and young people’s mental health and how it may present Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence-based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post Knowledge of child and adolescent development and the role of the family in supporting children and young people’s emotional well-being Understanding of systems and contexts in which children and young people are likely to live Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients Demonstrates high standards in written and verbal communication Demonstrates ability to work well with other professionals/ colleagues

Desirable criteria

Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues relating to children and young people and the impact it can have on mental health Ability to manage own caseload and time

Other

Essential criteria

Ability to use supervision and personal development positively and effectively Ability to work under pressure Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality Ability to be self-reflective in personal and professional development and in supervision Full, enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure for the role

Desirable criteria

Willingness to take an active part in developing the role of CWPs within the organisation Willingness to contribute to service development

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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