Senior Children's Wellbeing Practitioner

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established health and social care Trust is seeking a compassionate and resilient Senior Child Wellbeing Practitioner to join their Hull team. This role is vital for supporting children and young people with their social, emotional, and mental health needs. The successful candidate will work closely with multi-disciplinary professionals, leading initiatives to foster positive outcomes for families. With a strong focus on development and support, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the community while enjoying a range of benefits and a commitment to staff wellbeing. If you are passionate about making a difference, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Enhanced Leave Package

Health and Wellbeing Support

Flexible Working Arrangements

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years experience working with children and families.
• Professional registration with BABCP or BPS required.

Responsibilities

• Support the CWP team in providing psychological therapies for children.
• Oversee intervention plans for children and young people.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Supervision and Mentoring

Leadership

Ethical Values and Attitudes

Change Management

Education

Professional Qualification in Low-Intensity CBT

Post Registration/Graduate Diploma

Evidence of CPD or Experiential Learning

Tools

Basic IT Skills

Job description

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.

Job overview

Are you passionate about working with children and young people? Do you have a real passion for the social, emotional and mental wellbeing needs of our young people?

Do you have a minimum of 2 years experience working with children, young people and their families around social, emotional and mental health needs? Do you hold a professional qualification, registration or belong to a recognized governing body?

We are looking to recruit a Senior Child Wellbeing Practitioner to our Hull CWP team, who is enthusiastic, kind, compassionate and resilient, with experience of supporting others to develop.

We seek a Practitioner who has experience of working with multi-disciplinary professionals to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people (CYP) and their families and can evidence an understanding of CBT based interventions.

The role will require the individual to be an identified lead within the CPWP team and work closely with other early intervention and Early Help services.

The successful candidate will also hold a small caseload across the CWP to work systemically to create sustainable change for children, young people and families.

As a Senior Practitioner, the successful candidate will work as part of the CWP team to support and empower Education, Health, Early Help and Social Care to work as one system to support CYP and families with their social, emotional and mental health needs.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role include:

• To support the CWP team's Team Lead and other colleagues in providing a low intensity Psychological therapies service for children, young people and their families within Hull City.
• To oversee the formulation and intervention plans for parents, children and young people being supported by the Child Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service; individual and groups.
• Work in partnership with services throughout the city to support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
• To support the CWPs to liaise with other education, health, social care and voluntary community sector staff from a range of agencies, in the care provided to children, young people, their families and professionals and to signpost to other services where appropriate.
• Support CWPs in the co-delivery of training sessions, group and individual interventions.
• Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people and families experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Professional qualification in low-intensity CBT for CYP-IAPT, and professional registration relevant to post (either BABCP or BPS).
• Post registration/graduate diploma or equivalent experience in related work area, to demonstrate advanced level of practice.
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students/Trainees/supervising staff etc.
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical/professional and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion.
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
• Basic IT skills.
• Evidence of CPD or experiential learning at an advanced level e.g. Post graduate/Masters level.
• Leadership training/qualification/experience.
• Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility.

Skills and Competencies

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring.
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive.
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity.
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change.
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.