Senior Children's Wellbeing Practitioner
Are you passionate about working with children and young people? Do you have a real passion for the social, emotional and mental wellbeing needs of our young people?
Do you have a minimum of 2 years experience working with children, young people and their families around social, emotional and mental health needs? Do you hold a professional qualification, registration or belong to a recognized governing body?
We are looking to recruit a Senior Child Wellbeing Practitioner to our Hull CWP team, who is enthusiastic, kind, compassionate and resilient, with experience of supporting others to develop.
We seek a Practitioner who has experience of working with multi-disciplinary professionals to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people and families, and can evidence an understanding of CBT based interventions.
The role will require the individual to be an identified lead within the CPWP team and work closely with other early intervention and Early Help services.
The successful candidate will also hold a small caseload across the CWP to work systemically to create sustainable change for children, young people and families.
As a senior Practitioner, the successful candidate will work as part of the CWP team to support and empower Education, Health, Early Help and Social Care to work in one system to support children and young people and families with their social, emotional and mental health needs.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role include:
* Support the CWP team's Team Lead and other colleagues in providing a low intensity Psychological therapies service for children, young people and their families within Hull City.
* Oversee the formulation and intervention plans for parents, children and young people being supported by the Child Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service; individual and groups.
* Work in partnership with services throughout the city to support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
* Support the CWPs to liaise with other education, health, social care and voluntary community sector staff from a range of agencies, in the care provided to children, young people, their families and professionals, and to signpost to other services where appropriate.
* Support CWPs in the co-delivery of training sessions, group and individual interventions.
* Assess and deliver outcome-focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people and families experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
About us
We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work, we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors, you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Job responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Experience
* Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care.
* Evidence of development of specialist practice skills and ability to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
* Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation.
* Act as Care Programme Approach (CPA) Co-ordinator.
* Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held.
* Development of specialist/advanced level of practice skills and ability to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
* Professional networking locally.
* Ability to effectively chair meetings.
* Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice.
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Professional qualification in low-intensity CBT for CYP-IAPT, and professional registration relevant to post (either BABCP or BPS).
* Post registration/graduate diploma or equivalent experience in related work area, to demonstrate advanced level of practice.
* Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students/Trainees/supervising staff etc.
* Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical/professional and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion.
* Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
* Basic IT skills.
* Evidence of CPD or experiential learning at an advanced level e.g. Post graduate/Masters level.
* Leadership training/qualification/experience.
* Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility.
Skills and Competencies
* Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring.
* Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive.
* Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity.
* Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change.
* Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others.
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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