Job Summary
Do you have a post Graduate Certificate or Diploma in Children's Wellbeing Practice (CWP)?
Do you enjoy solution-focused work, using evidence-based interventions?
Do you have a passion for supporting the best outcomes for children?
If you have a genuine interest in working with children and young people who experience mental health problems, find out more about becoming a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner.
Main duties of the job
The Thought-Full Mental Health Support Team are looking for an innovative and enthusiastic person with low-intensity CBT training and experience. Working within education settings, and sometimes in the community, you will undertake mental health assessments and deliver a wide range of evidence-informed interventions based on the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) model.
You will work directly with children and young people of primary and secondary school age to support, plan, and implement mental health support work. Key to this role is promoting the development and delivery of the Whole School Approach to children's and young people's emotional wellbeing and mental health.
We are looking for someone who can work with integrity, openness, and confidence. You will need a passion for using your knowledge of education settings and mental health interventions to bring the two together.
About Us
The Educational Psychology Service (EPS) supports the delivery of the Local Authority's wellbeing strategy and Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) strategy across educational settings, children, young people, and families throughout West Sussex. The EPS directly oversees the Portage Service and the Thought-Full Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in schools.
Mental Health Support Teams in Schools (MHSTs) are an exciting new initiative and an important strand of the Government's 2017 Green Paper 'Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision'. The MHST service in West Sussex is called Thought-Full: Helping you think it through.
Thought-Full exists to support schools with all aspects of Mental Health and Wellbeing. We do that through three core functions:
1. We deliver evidence-based interventions in schools for mild to moderate mental health issues.
2. We support Senior mental health leads in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach.
3. We also provide advice to school and college staff, liaise with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.
Date posted
07 March 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£31,586 to £34,314 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
F0052-25-0003
Job locations
County Hall
West Street
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 1RG
West Sussex County Council
Barrington Road
Goring-by-sea
Worthing
West Sussex
BN12 4FP
Job Description
Job responsibilities
What You Need to Succeed
Qualifications: Post Graduate Certificate or diploma in Children's Wellbeing Practice (CWP)
Key Skills:
1. Ability to carry out 1:1 and group therapeutic mental health assessment and interventions with children and young people and/or their families in line with CWP training.
2. Ability to assess risk and to record and communicate it appropriately and take necessary actions.
3. Ability to work in a number of different ways with a range of professionals and other adults including teachers, parents/carers, social workers and other mental health professionals in the best interests of the child.
4. Ability to effectively manage a caseload, which may be sensitive, traumatic or potentially emotionally distressing.
5. Ability to positively make use of supervision both clinical and caseload in groups and individually.
6. Ability to complete and maintain data recording and paperwork appropriate to the work undertaken.
Responsibilities
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
* Post Graduate Certificate or diploma in Children's Wellbeing Practice (CWP).
* Eligible for professional registration as a CWP.
* Relevant theoretical, practical and procedural knowledge across the specialist area.
* Evidence of delivering an effective and efficient professional service to a range of customers.
Experience Essential
* Ability to carry out 1:1 and group therapeutic mental health assessment and interventions with children and young people and/or their families in line with CWP training.
* Ability to assess risk and to record and communicate it appropriately and take necessary actions.
* Ability to work in a number of different ways with a range of professionals and other adults including teachers, parents/carers, social workers and other mental health professionals in the best interests of the child.
* Ability to effectively manage a caseload, which may be sensitive, traumatic or potentially emotionally distressing.
* Ability to positively make use of supervision both clinical and caseload in groups and individually.
* Ability to complete and maintain data recording and paperwork appropriate to the work undertaken.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
West Sussex County Council
Address
County Hall
West Street
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 1RG
Employer's website
https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/
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