Trainee Children & Young Peoples Well-being Practitioner

Invictus Wellbeing; Huddersfield; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health charity is seeking trainee Children & Young Peoples Wellbeing Practitioners in Huddersfield. The role involves delivering evidence-based interventions to support young people's emotional health. Candidates should have experience in mental health settings and a commitment to professional development. This position offers a fixed-term contract with training opportunities to establish a career in mental health support.

Benefits

Access to training and development

Peer support

Qualifications

• Minimum two/three years experience in mental health settings.
• Experience in a primary care based team.
• Competency in Child Development or Mental Health.

Responsibilities

• Offer evidence-based interventions to children and young people.
• Manage caseloads effectively while communicating with families.
• Engage in clinical supervision and training.

Skills

Experience in mental health

Working with Children & Young People

Ability to study at undergraduate level

Education

Evidence of study at level 5

Educated to degree level

Job description

This is a training role within the Psychological Trainings Programme. The post-holder will work withinInvictus Wellbeing as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering, under supervision, high-quality;outcome informed, focused, and evidence-based interventions for children and young peopleexperiencing mild to moderate anxiety, low mood, and behavioural difficulties

Main duties of the job

1. To work within the organisation to offer outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to

children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

2. Working in partnership, support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate

mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.

3. To identify and report safeguarding incidents, in line with relevant policies and procedures.

4. To be committed to a quality approach for patient care.

5. The post-holder will demonstrate high levels of concentration and provide sustained effort in

assessment of complexities and risk.

6. To manage busy caseloads; ensuring effective communication with families, professionals,

staff, CYPs and more.

7. To operate within the clinical and case management supervision framework and engage

effectively with clinical supervision on a weekly basis.

8. To work during Invictus Wellbeing hours and support our buddy system where appropriate

on one evening session a week.

9. To use a range of IT systems including patient record systems and Gmail, ensuring high

quality data is collected appropriately, kept securely and confidentially

10. To work in an innovative and child, young person and family centred way, in a culture of

continuous improvement and learning.

11. To engage and manage your educational responsibilities and ensure all deadlines are met.

12. To demonstrate continued practice development and engage in annual appraisal.

About us

Invictus Wellbeing is a charity working across West Yorkshire to improve and support the mentalhealth of children and young people (5-25). They offer a range of mental health and wellbeingservices and projects across the region. This role will be embedded into our core services, offeringkey evidence based interventions to CYPs 11-17s

Job responsibilities

Applications are sought for trainee Children & Young Peoples Wellbeing Practitioner practitioners in

Bradford and Kirklees (4 vacancies). These are fixed term, full time roles with the intention to

become permanent (subject to funding) on successful completion of a 1 year training course. The

trainees will learn skills in providing low intensity evidence based interventions to children and young

people with emotional health difficulties, and their parents/carers.

Two trainees will be based in Bradford and two in Kirklees. The trainees will be employed, supported,

and clinically supervised through Invictus Wellbeing in Calderdale

The service has offices based in Halifax, Kirklees and Bradford. Some of the work with children,

young people and families may also take place in schools and community venues. Some home

working may be required.

Invictus Wellbeing will provide access to suitable clients, venues, links to schools, IT equipment, peer

support, access to secure patient management systems etc.

The training course is provided by Greater Manchester Psychological Therapies Training Centre in

Prestwich. Training delivery is a blend of remote and face to face over 2 days.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a short written assignment in order to demonstrate

their academic suitability for the training.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working within a mental health
• setting with clients presenting with common
• mental health problems
• Minimum of two/three years experience
• working with Children & Young People and/or
• Mental Health.
• Working in community or primary care based teams
• Working as part of a wider
• multidisciplinary team
• Worked in a service where agreed targets in place to demonstrating
• outcomes.

Qualifications

• Evidence of ability to study successfully at
• undergraduate level (level 6) or the equivalent
• through a proven academic record of previous
• learning/formal study in Child Development,
• Well-being or Mental Health.
• Evidence of study at level 5.
• Evidence of numeracy skills.
• Willing to participate in any relevant training
• identified to develop skills required to carry out
• duties.
• Educated to degree level (candidates
• who do not have a degree will need
• to evidence their competency by
• completing an essay).
• Maintains a portfolio of CPD in line
• with regulatory body standards.

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.

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