Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL; Bromsgrove; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Worcestershire County Council is recruiting an Emotional Health & Well-Being Worker to support children, young people and families in Worcestershire. The role uses evidence-based approaches such as CBT, counselling and motivational interviewing within a Signs of Safety framework to build stronger family outcomes.

You will contribute to developing family packages, work with multi-disciplinary colleagues and participate in reflective supervision to support career development.

Qualifications

• Experience applying psychological techniques to support individuals or groups.
• Ability to develop outcome-focused intervention plans with supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct emotional health and wellbeing support to young people or adults.
• Develop packages of emotional support for families with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Conduct triage assessments and plan interventions with supervision.

Skills

CBT

Counselling

Motivational interviewing

Solution focused therapy

Job description

Are you looking for ways to use your psychological skills and experience? Are you someone who can build a relationship during times of adversity? Do you want to make real changes to the lives of children, young people and their families?, Supporting Families First (S.F.F) is an innovative and multi-disciplinary team led by an experienced management team in order to deliver the optimum services to children and families in Worcestershire. Over the next 6 - 12 months within the Family Front Door the implementation of the Social Work reforms will commence where the multi-disciplinary approach will be expanded.

This is a great time to join a team as we prepare this transition, it will afford you the opportunity to assimilate into the service using the preferred Signs of Safety practice model, to find out what works well within the family using existing strengths to help families to find their own solutions.

Emotional Health & Well-Being workers are supported and supervised by the Clinical Lead. You will also have the opportunity to participate in reflective group supervisions to support you in the role.

Your role is to offer direct support to young people or adults using evidence-based skills such as CBT, Counselling, motivational interviewing, or solution focused therapy with the aim of enhancing an individual's emotional health and wellbeing. You will be involved in developing packages of emotional support for families, working with your multi - disciplinary colleagues to provide a whole family approach.

You will complete triage assessments upon requests for emotional health and wellbeing support, and within supervision develop an outcome focused plan of intervention.

This role is best suited to a person who has experience of using psychological techniques to support individuals/groups but is looking for an opportunity to further develop their career, skills and understanding.

While you are working hard, doing your best for the people of Worcestershire, we will do our best to provide an environment that supports and inspires you. Here are some of the top reasons why you should work here.

Equality & Diversity: The County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all citizens and celebrates the diversity of all its residents., The work we do at Worcestershire County Council matters! We are there for the most vulnerable people in society who need us the most, we are helping to build a successful and growing local economy, we protect our environment, we improve outcomes for our children, young people and families, and we help ensure our residents are healthier, live longer and have a better quality of life. In short, what we do makes a difference to people's lives!

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