Band 6
Main area: Primary CAMHS - Wokingham BC
Grade: Band 6
Contract: 1 year (End date - 30/09/2025. Fixed term end date will be determined after pre-employment checks have been completed)
Hours: Part time - 34 hours per week
Job ref: 371-CFS458
Site: Primary CAMHS - Wokingham BC, Wokingham Hospital
Town: Wokingham
Salary: £39,205 - £47,084 per annum, pro rata (Incl of HCAS)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 04/03/2025
Job overview
This is an exciting time of growth and change within West Berkshire NHS Trust as our CAMH service is currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and partners to deliver the Government's Programme for mental health support to be available in schools.
To support the ongoing development of our Primary Mental Health Team 4 Youth service, we are looking to recruit a Senior Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner and Supervisor to be based in Slough.
In line with the Government’s priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the new Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational and community settings and healthcare sectors in England.
Main duties of the job
1. To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence-based interventions, and routine outcome measures.
2. To care coordinate and manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties in schools.
3. To coordinate and deliver individualised care packages/programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
4. To provide day-to-day clinical and supervisory support for the Children Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP).
5. To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation, and signposting using an outcome-based triage model to schools.
6. To provide training to school staff, parents, and carers in conjunction with colleagues.
7. Within schools, actively promote the whole school-based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.
8. To train and mentor students and less experienced members of the team.
9. To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
10. To provide clinical supervision to the team.
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
* Caring for and about you is our top priority
* Committed to providing good quality, safe services
* Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
* Flexible working options to support work-life balance
* 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
* Excellent learning and career development opportunities
* ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
* Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
* Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
* Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment, and armed forces community to support equality
* Generous maternity, paternity, adoption, and special leave
* Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
1. Be friendly, self-motivated, and self-organising.
2. Be confident in working in a multi-agency setting, collaborating with colleagues in schools and across the wider system.
3. Enjoy regular collaboration with your peers and the senior colleagues to whom you report.
4. Always seek new or better ways to deliver care and be keen to learn.
5. Have a calm, friendly, and compassionate outlook and a keen interest in working in a school setting.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact: Robin Hammond at robin.hammond@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
* Completed British Psychological Society (BPS) Accredited or Higher Education England (HEE) Approved academic course of study including Post Graduate Diploma/Certificate in line with the CYP IAPT Low Intensity National Programme and qualified as a Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP).
* Professional Registration as a CWP with British Psychological Society (BPS) or the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).
* Completed or currently undertaking the CWP Low Intensity Supervisor training qualification (PG Cert).
Continuous Professional Development
* Evidence of substantial continuous professional development within the CWP role.
Previous Experience
* Demonstrable post qualification experience of working with children and young people delivering evidence-based low intensity interventions to CYP and/or their families in a multi-agency environment.
* Significant post qualification experience working with children, young people, and their families around a range of emotional/mental health, behavioural/additional health, and developmental needs.
* Experience of delivering supervision or coaching or mentoring junior colleagues.
* Experience of managing competing demands and managing a caseload.
* Experience of working in a service where agreed/specified targets are in place to demonstrate clinical outcomes.
* Experience with routine outcome measures in clinical practice, using these outcomes to evaluate clinical work and service targets.
* Experience of line management.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
* A clear understanding of the CYP IAPT programme; Key Performance Indicators and related guidance/legislation.
* Abilities in recognising when alternative evidence-based low-intensity interventions are required for neurodiverse CYP and able to deliver these.
* Ability to recognise when CYPs needs, or wider complexity factors (e.g., social/physical needs/risk/neurodiversity) mean they are beyond low intensity/early intervention remit and competence.
* Knowledge of trauma-informed practice.
* Ability to undertake comprehensive risk assessments within the scope of practice.
* Knowledge of safeguarding issues and a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of CYP and vulnerable adults.
* Knowledge of a wide range of statutory and non-statutory Mental Health Services.
* Ability to personally manage a sensitive, and potentially emotionally distressing caseload.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Able to plan creatively to maximise effectiveness of care plans, including complex multi-agency care plans.
* Ability to teach and train others.
* Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
* Able to communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues, children, and families, in a manner that is sensitive to and acknowledging of their needs, experience, and all aspects of diversity.
* Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build and develop therapeutic relationships with a range of people.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills and use of internet-mediated communication, tailored to a variety of audiences.
* Exceptional IT skills and the ability to navigate various systems and software packages (such as Rio, Outlook, databases, Microsoft programmes including Excel database, Word, One Consultation, and the internet).
Additional Requirements
* Able to work flexibly around working patterns, as required, and willingness to travel independently between locations in Berkshire to fulfil the requirements of the position.
These are the values that we live by at Berkshire Healthcare:
* Caring for and about you is our top priority.
* Committed to providing good quality, safe services.
* Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions.
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Please find attached the behaviour framework that underpins these values for this job role.
At Berkshire Healthcare, we foster an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs.
We welcome talent from all backgrounds and offer guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants and armed forces community members who meet the minimum criteria.
Please note we may close positions before the advertised date.
Once you have applied, please check your email regularly for updates. All appointments are subject to NHS Employment Checks, and false information may result in withdrawal of offers. For information on how we store your information, please review our privacy statement.
No agencies, please.
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.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
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