Trainee Senior Wellbeing Practitioner

Northumbria Group.; Newcastle upon Tyne, Alnwick; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing hub

Staff networks

Flexible working

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

Lease car and home electronics

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is inviting applications for a Trainee Senior Wellbeing Practitioner within the Northumberland Mental Health Support Team, based in Alnwick/Coquet. You will enroll on a 24‑month Senior Wellbeing Programme at the University of Northumbria and work to deliver early intervention for children and young people.

You will support schools, offer consultation, and supervise Education Mental Health Practitioners, while benefiting from a hybrid working model and

Qualifications

• Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Programme completion.
• Registered with a relevant professional body.
• Post-graduate diploma in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in Education Environments (EMHP).

Responsibilities

• Deliver 1:1 low‑intensity psychological interventions for children and young people.
• Deliver whole school approach work and staff training.
• Provide consultation and signposting to early help and Specialist services.
• Provide supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners within the team.
• Engage with wider team and external partners to support pathways.

Skills

Empathy and communication

Intervention delivery

Education system understanding

Education

Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Programme

Registered with relevant professional body

Post-graduate diploma EMHP

Job description

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Trainee Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join the Northumberland Mental Health Support Team in Alnwick/Coquet. As a trainee, you will enrol on the 24-months Senior Wellbeing Programme at the University of Northumbria.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and self-motivated individual with a passion for delivering early intervention and innovative new models of working in children’s mental health.

The post holder will be responsible for delivering the 3 core functions of a Mental Health Support Team: 1:1 evidence-based interventions, whole school approach work and provide advice and guidance to our partners across education, health and social care. These roles sit within the 'getting help' sector of the Thrive model. As a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, you will also deliver the enhanced practice pathways and provide supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners within the team.

We support a blended/hybrid model of working recognising the value of home life balance. We will ensure we consider suitable arrangements are made to your work and home base to guarantee suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The role will involve delivering a range of evidenced-based low intensity psychological interventions for children and young people with mild/moderate need. These will be delivered individually and in small group-based programmes. This will also include the facilitation of a range of psychoeducation sessions and staff training.

The role will provide support to education settings to improve the whole school approach to emotional well-being.

The post holder will also deliver a consultation and signposting role to a range of early help, targeted and specialist support services supporting children and young people’s emotional health and wellbeing.

As a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner you will provide supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners in the team and engage proactively in the wider supervision offer and service development initiatives.

Engaging proactively with the wider team and our external partners is fundamental to the role and the delivery of the Mental Health Support Team functions.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients?

You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role involves delivering on the 3 core functions of a Mental Health Support Team: delivering 1:1 low intensity intervention, whole school delivery and providing an advisory and consultative role.

The role will involve holding a caseload, managing this in terms of delivering intervention and supporting through to discharge. There will be close working with education settings to support the delivery of the whole school approach.

We have a robust supervision structure in place, and the post holder will take an active participation in both clinical and case management supervision, group/peer supervision and the service safeguarding supervision arrangements we have in place.

Part of the delivery will be liaising with our system partners and contributing to the wider contribution across the emotional and mental health pathway in Northumberland. The role will involve active engagement with the recording and evaluation systems in place, in accordance with the Benchmarking Framework and service delivery targets.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which:

(a) engages, enables and empowers others

(b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and

(c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Completion or working towards completion of Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Programme
• Registered with relevant professional body
• Post-graduate diploma in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in Education Environments (EMHP)

Experience

• At least 1 year post-qualifying experience of working as an EMHP or CWP
• Experience of delivering interventions in education settings
• Experience of working with children and young people and an understanding of the education system in England

Other requirements

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid UK driving licence and is either car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Suzanne Wile Job title Primary Mental Health Team Senior Lead Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0191 2933012

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