Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner

King's College London; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Kings College London is hosting a Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner role across our Croydon, Sutton and Merton borough-based services. The position forms part of the CYP-PT training programme, delivered with Off The Record, and leads to a PG Diploma in Child Wellbeing Practice.

Post holders will work under supervision to deliver evidence-based guided self-help interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

Responsibilities

• Offer a range of flexible, compassionate and engaging mental health interventions for young people within community services, including individual and parent-led support, group work, counselling and psycho-educational work
• Work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcome
• Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about the intervention
• Monitor the effectiveness of interventions through routine outcome monitoring tools
• Collaborate with staff across Off the Record to identify new areas for development and research unmet needs
• Maintain safeguarding awareness and respond to risk and safeguarding issues whilst respecting the young person's autonomy
• Maintain accurate records on relevant data systems and contribute to monitoring and evaluation
• Ensure young people's voices are central to service developments and engagement activities
• Undertake direct promotion and publicity of the charity's services
• Attend regular supervision and team/charity meetings including Saturday meetings/training days
• Implement the charity's equality and diversity & user engagement policies
• Perform other tasks as necessary for the charity

Job description

Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner Role Description Responsible to: Senior Mental Health Practitioner Salary: NHS Band 4 FTE (£33,262), inclusive of Outer London Weighting Annual Leave: Pro rata of 28 days per annum (plus bank holidays) Hours: Full-time (35 hpw) lncluding some evening and occassional weekend work and attendance at Saturday meetings (currently 2 times p.a.) for which TOIL will be given Location: Across our borough based services in Croydon, Sutton and Merton Croydon 72 Queens Road, Croydon CR0 2PR Merton Vestry Hall, 336 London Rd, Mitcham CR4 3UD Sutton 172 Croydon Road, Beddington CR0 4PG Croydon 678 London Road, CR7 7HU

Job Summary:

This is a training role within the Children and Young People's Psychological Trainings programme (CYP-PT). The post-holder will work within a CYP mental health service that is focussed on outreach to the community. Trainees will be delivering, under supervision, high-quality; brief outcome focused evidence-based interventions and guided self-help for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties within the community. The training and service experience will equip the post holder with the necessary knowledge, attitude and capabilities to operate effectively in an inclusive, value driven service.

DUTIES:

This is a training position post holder will undertake training at Kings College London alongside working in service for Off The Record. They will be taught to deliver evidence based guided self-help interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. The post holder will use their newly developed skills to support children and young people who are referred into the service and trainees will receive supervision to support their professional development. Applicants will need to be ready to start work in January 2027 and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date. Candidates will also need to submit an application form to KCL for a place on the postgraduate Diploma in Child Wellbeing Practice.

• 1. To offer a range of flexible, compassionate and engaging mental health interventions for young people within our community services, including individual and parent-led support, group work, counselling and psycho-educational work
• 2. Work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcome
• 3. Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about the intervention
• 4. To monitor the effectiveness of interventions offered through the routine use of outcome monitoring tools reviewed directly with young people
• 5. Working with other staff across Off the Record to identify new areas for development, creativity and innovation within our existing services, researching unmet need and developing new responses
• 6. To maintain high levels of safeguarding awareness and to respond to risk
  and safeguarding issues as they arise whilst respecting the young person's autonomy wherever possible
• 7. To maintain accurate and up to date records of all work delivered on relevant data systems and to contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of our services
• 8. To ensure young people's voices are always central to service developments and contributing to young peoples participation and engagement activities in the charity
• 9. Undertaking direct promotion and publicity of the charity's services to young people, communities and professionals
• 10. To attend regular clinical and line management supervision and to attend other team/charity meetings as appropriate including occasional Saturday meetings/training days
• 11. To actively implement the charity's equality and diversity & user engagement policies
• 12. Any other tasks, not listed here, but deemed necessary and in the interest of the charity

Training and Supervision

• 13. Attend and fulfil all the requirements of
  the training element of the post including practical, academic and practice-based assessments and assignments to successfully complete the PG Diploma as part of becoming a fully qualified CWP
• 14. As well as attendance at the University for training, fulfil private study requirements to enhance learning and prepare assignments for examination
• 15. Apply learning from the training program directly to practice through the course. Receive practice tutoring from educational and clinical providers in relation to course work to meet the required standards
• 16. Prepare and present case load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the trainee, supervisor and service are delivered
• 17. Prepare and present case load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the trainee, supervisor and service are delivered
• 18. Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improve competences and practice

Please note that an application to Kings College London Post Graduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice needs to be made alongside your application to Off The Record. It is important that you read the KCL application guidance and brochure in the supporting documents. We may close this vacancy early if we believe we have enough strong applications to be able to successfully fill the roles.