Main area: Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner - Band 5 Grade NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: 12 months (Fixed Term)
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Fixed Term)
Job ref: 395-EC946-24
Site: CAMHS Learning Disability Team, Stapleford House, Chelmsford
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pa pro rata (plus HCAS)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/01/2025 23:59
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
We are looking for either a Clinician with a professional registration (i.e. Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist) or two years or more experience of working directly with children or adults with a learning disability to work within NELFT’s Essex wide SET CAMHS Learning Disabilities team.
The team provides mental health services to children and young people with severe to profound learning disabilities who may also have related complex developmental disorders often including an additional Autistic Spectrum Disorder diagnosis. The team is based in Chelmsford and offers a specialist community Mental Health service across Essex to children/young people, their parents, and professionals who support them in all environments.
Main duties of the job
As a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP):
* The post holder will be responsible for delivering clinical interventions within SET CAMHS, receiving clinical supervision from Mental Health Practitioners or a Senior Practitioner.
* To routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions, in-line with the Ithrive Model within CAMHS.
* Promoting the mental and emotional health of children, young people, and families in the community through clinical interventions.
* To undertake initial school-based and community-based assessments and deliver a range of early interventions.
* Providing a direct service to children and young people and their families, in an accessible environment, based on the best available research evidence.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
* Clinician with a professional registration (i.e. Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist)
* Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr Children's Wellbeing Practitioner course.
Experience
* Evidence of working with People (Children or Adults) with a severe learning disability
* Experience of working in a community Team with children with a learning disability and additional mental health difficulties
* Experience of carrying out generic assessments with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of providing individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old.
Skills
* Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients.
* Capacity to work alone and involve colleagues as relevant.
* Ability to plan and organise own workload and time.
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community.
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