Senior Wellbeing Practitioner

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to improving mental health for children and young people. As a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, you'll provide vital emotional support in schools, working collaboratively with a dedicated team. This role offers a unique opportunity to impact the lives of young individuals, ensuring they receive the best care possible. With a focus on professional development and a supportive work environment, you will thrive in a role that values your contributions and fosters your growth. If you are passionate about mental health and ready to make a difference, this position is for you.

Benefits

Career Development

Competitive Salaries

Work-Life Balance

Employee Assistance Programs

Qualifications

• Graduate qualified health care professional with clinical experience.
• Registered with appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC).

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based interventions for children and young people.
• Conduct assessments and develop care plans tailored to individual needs.

Skills

Communication Skills

Clinical Assessment

Low Intensity CBT Treatments

Risk Management

Education

Graduate in Nursing, Social Work, or Occupational Therapy

CYP-IAPT Low Intensity CBT Training

Job description

Main area Senior Wellbeing Practitioner SE Essex Locality Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 395-EK669-24-F

Site Skyline Plaza Town Southend-On-Sea Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 26/02/2025 23:59

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.

Job overview

The Senior Wellbeing Practitioner works with schools and colleges to provide expert emotional wellbeing and mental health support as part of plans to transform children and young people’s mental health through the NHS Long-Term Plan.

The post-holder will be a graduate qualified health care professional (e.g. nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), or have completed EMHP/CWP qualification and will be fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, BPS, BABC). They will have extensive clinical experience working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties. Post holders will have completed or be supported to complete the Senior Wellbeing Practitioner course or CYP IAPT Low Intensity Supervisor course.

The post holder will be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working with other health and social care professionals and agencies.

The MHSTs build on the support already in place from school counsellors, nurses, educational psychologists and the voluntary sector to support those with mild to moderate mental health issues in school and will help children and young people with more severe needs to access the right support and provide a link to the CAMHS services. The post-holder will routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based interventions.

Main duties of the job

The Post holder will work as part of an MHST delivering, under supervision, high-quality, brief outcome focused evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties in and around schools. The post holder will be responsible for delivering clinical interventions within the MHST and will receive clinical supervision from a more senior psychological practitioner.

• To routinely measure clinical outcomes.
• Promoting the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through evidenced based clinical interventions.
• To undertake initial school based and community-based assessments and to deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties.
• To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by their registering bodies code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.

Working for our organisation

Working at NELFT offers several benefits, including:

1. Career Development: NELFT provides opportunities for professional growth and advancement. Staff can access training, workshops, and mentoring programs.
2. Competitive Salaries: NELFT offers competitive pay scales and benefits packages.
3. Work-Life Balance: The organization promotes a healthy work-life balance, with flexible working arrangements and support for well-being.
4. Employee Assistance Programs: Staff have access to counselling services, mental health support, and other resources.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder will be a graduate qualified health care professional (e.g. nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), or will be a qualified low intensity practitioner (CWP/EMHP) with substantial post qualification experience and CPD and will be fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, (BPS/BABCP for CWP/EMHP)). They will have extensive clinical experience working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.

Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes (e.g. CYP-IAPT training).

To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients, via NICE compliant pathways.

To be able to assess and develop plans of care within MHSTs to meet the needs of children and young people with a variety of conditions. This includes brief and longer-term interventions through talking therapies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes and activity.

To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.

To provide children, young people and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.

To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence based practice, literature and peer review.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Successful completion of a graduate training (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy) or have completed a low intensity EMHP/CWP Qualification.
• To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC) or… …Successful CYP- IAPT Low Intensity CBT training (CWP/EMHP) with substantial post qualified experience and CPD alongside BPS or BABCP registration.

Experience

• Substantial experience in delivering low intensity CBT treatments.
• Experience of working therapeutically with Parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems.
• Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.

Knowledge

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long- term clinical interventions in children's mental wellbeing services.
• Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.

Skills

• Skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside children's mental wellbeing services.
• Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work and organise own workload and time.

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.

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.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

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.