Qualified Child Wellbeing Practitioner

Maudsley Learning; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to enhancing mental health support for children and young people. As a Children and Young Person Well-being Practitioner, you will play a vital role in delivering early intervention services, utilizing evidence-based approaches to support those facing mild to moderate mental health challenges. This position offers the chance to work within a nurturing team environment, where professional development is prioritized and diversity is celebrated. If you are passionate about making a difference and have the necessary qualifications, this opportunity could be the perfect fit for you.

Benefits

Flexible working

Career development opportunities

NHS discounts

Counselling services

Cycle to work scheme

Long service awards

Season ticket loan

Qualifications

• Must hold qualifications from a Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner course.
• Evidence of eligibility for registration with BABCP or BPS is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide Early Intervention, Prevention, and Promotion in mental health.
• Deliver low-intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy interventions.

Skills

Guided Self-Help interventions

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Risk assessments

Time management

Education

Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner course

Psychology or health-related undergraduate degree

Job description

Main area: Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours:

• Full time
• Flexible working
• Compressed hours

37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 334-CLI-6839797

Site: 78 Lewisham Park, Town London
Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 per annum Incl. HCAs
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 23/01/2025

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to providing high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for the care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and creative Children and Young Person Well-being Practitioners (CWPs) to join our teams at Lewisham CAMHS.

Please note that candidates must hold qualifications from a Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) course. Unfortunately, we are currently unable to consider candidates from the MHST training pathway due to BABCP/BPS registration regulations.

Candidates must demonstrate evidence of eligibility for registration with either BABCP or BPS.

• If you are a newly qualified graduate, you will need to provide evidence that you are able to gain registration at the time of the interview. This can be from your previous or current clinical supervisor.
• If you have completed your course, you must provide proof of registration at the time of the interview.

This CWP role supports the government's priority of increasing access to 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, and collaborative practice and be skilled in delivering low-intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy interventions.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting time to be joining one of our CWP teams. As a Trust, we are committed to ensuring equality in access for our young people and their families. CWP teams provide Early Intervention, Prevention and Promotion, working in partnership with Primary Care and Community Providers to support mild to moderate difficulties using evidence-based guided self-help interventions to 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. Our teams are embedded within the Tier 2 CAMHS service from which they accept referrals.

The Child and Youth Wellbeing Team consists of a Service Lead, a CAMHS clinical specialist, qualified CWPs, and trainees. All of our team benefit from a friendly and nurturing local CAMHS team, where there are good training opportunities with a supportive leadership team. With good links to local social care, education, and voluntary services, as well as National and Specialist CAMHS and our teaching and research colleagues within KCL. All our SLaM boroughs have ethnically diverse communities, and applicants will be interested in and understand diversity issues and how they link to mental health in children and young people.

Working for our organisation

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. It’s important to us that you are valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave: We offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work-life balance: Flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development: There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
• NHS discounts: With discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Qualification

• Qualification from CWP training course (e.g. Post Graduate Certificate) or Trainee CWP approaching the end of their training.
• Psychology or other health-related undergraduate degree.

Experience

• Experience of working in a CWP site
• Evidence of working with children and young people who have experienced a mental health problem.
• Experience working in a service which has agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.
• Evidence of working in the local community.

Skills

• Skills in enabling Guided Self-Help interventions
• Received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice.
• Ability to manage own caseload and time, and to work under pressure.

Knowledge

• Demonstrates an understanding of the need to use evidence-based psychological models and how it relates to this post.
• Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety, depression and challenging behaviour and how it may present in universal services.
• Demonstrates knowledge of guided self-help interventions for anxiety, depression and challenging behaviour.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health.

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer; we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect, and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice.
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment.
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers, and our staff should be treated with compassion, respect, and dignity.

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online.
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria.
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should a sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible.
• That once you have submitted your application, you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date, your application has not been successful.
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
• That we are a smoke-free Trust.

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion. Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.