Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Band 6 EMHP CWP

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A health service provider in Greater London is seeking an experienced Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join their Mental Health Support Team. The role focuses on delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mild-to-moderate mental health issues, supporting educational settings, and providing clinical supervision. Candidates should have relevant qualifications in children's mental health, with substantial experience in similar roles. The position offers a hybrid working model, combining direct and remote work, fostering a supportive environment for both staff and service users.

Qualifications

• Experience working with evidence-based approaches for mild to moderate mental health problems in children and young people.
• Experience of supervising low intensity practice with CYP and families.
• Experience working as part of a Mental Health Support Team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mental health problems.
• Support the senior mental health lead in educational settings.
• Provide clinical supervision to trainees and newly qualified practitioners.

Skills

Evidence-based interventions

Clinical supervision

Routine outcome monitoring

Consultation

Education

PG Cert Supervision or PG Dip: Senior Wellbeing Practitioner

Registration with BABCP and/or BPS applied for

Job description

Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Band 6 – EMHP, CWP

Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Band 6 - EMHP, CWP

We are seeking to recruit an experienced senior wellbeing practitioner to join the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service (THEWS).

THEWS is a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) established following the government Green Paper: Transforming Children & Young People's Mental Health Provision. The service has undergone recent expansion.

Main duties of the job

The three core functions of a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) are:

• Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people (CYP) with mild-to-moderate mental health problems.
• Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce, develop and deliver the whole school/college approach.
• Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help CYP to get the right support and stay in education.

The role involves delivering all three MHST functions. The role involves providing clinical supervision to trainees and or newly qualified EWPs and holding small caseload of clinical work while acting as a senior link supporting school leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing, project work, and other tasks as/when required.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

THEWS is part of the Tower Hamlets Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) based in Whitechapel, East London.

In line with Trust policy, the service has adopted a hybrid clinical working model of direct face to face and remote working as appropriate.

The service embraces continual improvement and wellbeing of the staff and has a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement and working together with partner agencies to provide the highest quality service to the population we serve.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For further information about this role, please contact Dr Sarah Oliver, Specialist Clinical Psychologist - [e-mail]

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/Training

• Currently completing or have completed either the PG Cert Supervision: Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing or the PG Dip: Senior Wellbeing Practitioner course
• Registration with BABCP and/or BPS applied for

Experience

• Substantial experience of working with evidence-based approaches for mild to moderate mental health problems in children and young people
• Experience of supervising low intensity practice with CYP and families
• Experience of routine outcome monitoring
• Experience working with schools
• Experience working as part of an MHST
• Experience of service development
• Experience of consultation
• Experience of teaching/training other professionals

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of current guidelines and recent developments in evidence-based assessments and interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management and mental health in relation to children, young people and their families
• Knowledge, understanding and experience with diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation
• Knowledge of current guidelines in terms of the implementation of the whole-school approach in education

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.