Senior Wellbeing Practitioner

Oxleas; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas is recruiting for a SWP Trainee role within the CYP-PT programme to extend clinical skills for CWPs and EMHPs, including supervision responsibilities. The post develops early intervention for CYP mental health and involves working across services with a strong focus on safeguarding and governance.

The role requires prior supervised practice with children and families, caseload management and delivery of group-based interventions within schools and communities.

Qualifications

• Ideally over two years’ experience of clinical supervised practice with children and families.
• Experience with CYPs with mild to moderate mental health problems and CBT-informed self-help.
• Experience in managing and prioritising a caseload.
• Experience supervising junior staff or trainees.

Responsibilities

• Fulfilling the course requirement for the CYP-PT programme.
• Work within governance frameworks including clinical governance and data protection.
• Inform supervisor and university of absences and schedule adjustments.
• Attend site on non-university days and use site leave as agreed.
• Deliver psychoeducational workshops, webinars and school-based groups.
• Collaborate across agencies to coordinate responses to CYP mental health needs.
• Encourage user involvement and ensure data returns support service improvement.
• Provide supervision to CWPs or EMHPs after second SWP year.

Skills

CAMHS assessment facilitation

Active listening

Working in partnership

Knowledge of MHST strategy

Data protection awareness

Job description

Main area Children & Young People Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: Full-Time Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am - 5pm) Job ref 277-8292398-CYP

Site Goldie Leigh Town Welling, Kent Salary £44,485 - £52,521 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 08/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

Greenwich MHST seeks to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who are passionate about mental health support in schools, with a demonstrable track record of MHST clinical experience.

The post holder will contribute further to the development of early intervention and prevention service in Greenwich CAMHS. The post represents a development opportunity for a qualified practitioner, who is committed to the principles of CYP-PT to further their career into a Senior practice role. In addition to managing their own caseload, the post holder will be expected to provide supervision to CWPs or EMHPs.

The post-holder will work with young people from diverse backgrounds and should be committed to diversity and ensuring access to services for all.

Main duties of the job

To provide an evidenced based service for children and young people as part of early identification and intervention for children and young people with emotional and mental health needs

To provide advice, support and knowledge of appropriate resources for the emotional wellbeing of children and their families

To take responsibility for liaising with Practice Leads within the team and other Practitioners, to support effective clinical governance, risk and safety protocols and best practice principles to support continuous improvement and young person-centred care

To support development and delivery of psychoeducational workshops, webinars and groups for young people, parents/carers and school staff

To work across agencies to develop a co-ordinated response to children and young people's mental health needs

Encourage user-involvement and co-production in furthering best practices and striving for quality assurance in data returns for qualitative and quantitative service evaluations to inform and improve further service development

To work alongside others to demonstrate knowledge and skills to plan and critically evaluate the implementation of the early intervention role to meet the mental health needs of children and young people

To provide supervision to CWPs or EMHPs (from second year of SWP programme).

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

SWP TRAINEE ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

This is a training role within the CYP-PT programme. The SWP training is for qualified CWPs and EMHPs who have undertaken the respective Graduate or Postgraduate Certificate/ Diploma. The programme aims to extend the clinical skillset of CWPs and EMHPs by providing specialist training in a broader range of presentations as well as supervisor training for low-intensity interventions. SWPs will be responsible for:

Fulfilling the course requirement (see course brochure)

Working within the governance frameworks of the organisation, including, but not limited to: Clinical Governance, Confidentiality, Data Protection, Health and Safety, and use of IT

Informing their supervisor/line manager and university of any university absence

Being present in their site on non-university days and use site leave allowances as agreed with their site.

Experience

• Ideally over two years’ experience of clinical supervised practice of working with children and families, including work with children and young people with emotional and mental health needs which includes working with children and young people with a wide range of clinical and behavioural presentations.
• Experience of working with CYP’s with mild to moderate mental health problems and their families using CBT informed guided self help.
• Experience of managing and prioritising a caseload.
• Evidence of providing culturally adapted interventions.
• Experience in design and delivery of workshops, groups and whole school approach interventions.
• Working knowledge of Health, Social Services, Education and the Voluntary Sector and information sharing principles in practice in relation to data protection, privacy and confidentiality.
• Experience of supervising junior staff or trainees
• Experience in working with children and adolescents with Special Educational Needs

Skills

• CAMHS assessment facilitation, including assessing: risk behaviour, impact of the lived experience, systemic functioning and managing difference in the clinical space.
• Ability to listen empathetically to children and young people and their families in order to work effectively in partnership. Qualities essential to practice, include, respect, genuineness, empathy, personal integrity and communication skills, to enable the therapeutic relationship and process. Ability to work in partnership with children, families and multi-disciplinary professionals.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills in identifying systems for supporting emotional wellbeing and mental health needs in the community and facilitating access for young people and families
• Knowledge of MHST national strategy and relevant national policies and guidance in relation to children’s services and knowledge and skills to safeguard and protect children and young people’s welfare in line with the Children Act 2004 requirements and Keeping Children Safe in Education.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

If you have declared you are part of the armed forces community, you may be asked to provide evidence during the recruitment process. If you misrepresent this information, your offer may be withdrawn. For Armed Forces specific support, see our webpage: https://oxleas.nhs.uk/armed-forces-community/

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.