WSA Practitioner

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a professional to support mental health initiatives in schools across Gloucester. The role involves delivering workshops and presentations, monitoring resources, and providing support to service users. Candidates should have experience in educational settings and a solid understanding of mental health wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering workshops and presentations in educational settings.
• Ability to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of activities.
• Familiarity with mental health and wellbeing resources.

Responsibilities

• Deliver workshops and activities around mental health in schools.
• Collect feedback and conduct audits regarding outcomes.
• Identify and address health and social care needs of service users.

Skills

Ability to work flexibly

Strong communication skills

Team collaboration

Job description

To support the Whole School Approach' offer around Mental health and wellbeing across MHST schools in Gloucestershire

Delivering assemblies, class-based workshops, and small groups in primary and secondary settings, countywide.

To arrange, plan and deliver WSA activities.

Regularly required to collect and collate participant feedback in response to presentations and conduct audits with regards to the outcomes.

To participate regularly in the agreed systems for supervision.

To participate annually in the agreed system of appraisal.

Responsible for the security of equipment used by the service such as a projector and laptop for schools presentations.

Responsible for monitoring levels of resource materials and notifying the manager before they become depleted.

Creating and disseminating resources around Mental Health and Wellbeing.

To make accurate observations and recordings, using Rio (electronic patient recording system).

To identify and discuss a range of health and social care needs with service users, carers and other professionals and signpost when appropriate.

To provide support and advice to service users, carers, colleagues, and other professionals.

Ability to work flexibly and creatively, responding quickly to changing circumstances and needs of individual children, young people and their families.