Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner - Croydon CAMHS

The Methodist Church in Britain; Royal Borough of Greenwich; Sur place; GBP 26 000 - 34 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is offering a 12-month training post as a Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner in the Croydon CAMHS CWP team. The role combines university study days for the PGDip with service work remaining days of the week, with a separate application to King's College London for the Postgraduate Diploma.

You will deliver supervised, evidence-based interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety, low mood and behavioural

Qualifications

• Minimum second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university, or an equivalent overseas qualification, in a relevant subject such as psychology.
• Evidence of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties.
• Full, enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure for the role.

Responsabilités

• Deliver supervised, outcome-focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Assess children, young people and families and agree intervention plans and goals with them.
• Support self-management through guided self-help, face-to-face, by telephone or other media.
• Undertake accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
• Meet an agreed weekly schedule of child and young person contacts and sessions.
• Keep coherent records, use records and outcome data to inform decisions, and complete data collection.
• Attend university taught and self-study days and work in the service on the remaining days.
• Complete all training requirements, including practical, academic and practice-based assessments.
• Receive clinical and personal development supervision and present caseload information to supervisors.
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings on referrals or children and young people in treatment.
• Protect confidentiality and keep up to date with safeguarding legislation and children's mental health policy.

Connaissances

Self-motivated learner

Communication skills

Caseload management

Time management

Child mental health experience

Formation

Bachelor's degree in psychology

Description du poste

A 12-month training post as a Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner in the Croydon CAMHS CWP team, part of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust's CYP IAPT programme. The work is delivering supervised, evidence-based psychological interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety, low mood and behavioural difficulties. The role combines university study days for the PGDip with service work on the remaining days of the week. A separate application to King's College London for the Postgraduate Diploma is needed alongside the service application.

What the job involves

• Deliver supervised, outcome-focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties
• Assess children, young people and families and agree intervention plans and goals with them
• Support self-management through guided self-help, face-to-face, by telephone or other media
• Undertake accurate assessment of risk to self and others
• Accept referrals within national and local protocols, signpost unsuitable ones and **escalate** cases beyond scope
• Meet an agreed weekly schedule of child and young person contacts and sessions
• Keep coherent records, use records and outcome data to inform decisions, and complete data collection
• Attend university taught and self-study days and work in the service on the remaining days
• Complete all training requirements, including practical, academic and practice-based assessments
• Receive clinical and personal development supervision and present caseload information to supervisors
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings on referrals or children and young people in treatment
• Protect confidentiality and keep up to date with safeguarding legislation and children's mental health policy

What’s required

Qualifications

• Minimum second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university, or an equivalent overseas qualification, in a relevant subject such as psychology

Experience

• Evidence of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties

Skills & knowledge

• Ability to study as a self-motivated learner and implement training with appropriate support
• High standards in written and verbal communication
• Ability to manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
• Ability to organise own time and diary and manage competing demands and a high caseload

Checks & eligibility

• Full, enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure for the role

Other

• Able to travel to meet post requirements
• Awareness of the impact of diversity on client groups and the working environment, and willingness to make positive change in line with Croydon CAMHS's Anti-Racism strategy

Nice to have

• Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, counselling or a specific psychological therapy
• Psychology or other health, social care or youth-related undergraduate degree
• Other relevant postgraduate degree
• Experience of working in mental health or related services
• Experience of working in a service with agreed targets for demonstrating outcomes
• Understanding of evidence-based practice and how it influences clinical practice