Children's Wellbeing Practitioner Trainee
HCRG Care Group
Children's Wellbeing Practitioner Trainee
£24336
HCRG Care Group, City of Westminster
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 3 weeks ago, 31 Aug | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: d47dd37bb0ee41afb886a2e01ede54e0
Full Job Description
- Goal-focused, client-centred interventions using feedback tools to facilitate collaboration between professionals, young people and families, leading to more personalised care
- Giving children, young people and families a voice and influence
- Cross-agency collaboration between health, social care, voluntary and independent sectors
- Working with partner organisations to reduce stigma of mental health and improve understanding of the importance of emotional wellbeing
- Making services accountable by monitoring and sharing outcome data with young people, families and commissioners.
You can apply to the University of London via this link: Child and Young Persons Psychological Wellbeing Practice PG Dip | Prospective Students Graduate - UCL - University College London - Second-class or higher bachelor's degree from a UK university in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, education, childhood development, social work)
- An overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject
- Degree in any subject with further training or experience in a relevant field (e.g. teaching, TA, learning support, HCA, youth work, counselling).
- Anxiety (working with primary and secondary school pupils, parents and carers)
- Low mood (adolescents)
- Common behavioural difficulties (working with parents and carers).
- Be trained to offer consultations and training to colleagues from partner agencies.
- Be introduced to a range of outcome and feedback measures used in CYP Psychological Trainings (PT), and review and interpret them with children, young people, parents and carers
- Develop an understanding of the core principles of participation and collaboration, and learn how to integrate this into your work.
- There are approximately 64 teaching days in the year, split between three terms:
- You'll be assessed through presentations, reflective analysis, a poster, a case report and video clips of your clinical practice.
- This programme emphasises putting skills into practice and consolidating learning.
- You will develop a portfolio of a range of case work over the year, aiming for a minimum of 30 pieces of case work., We change lives by transforming health and care.
- £25,000 salary with group pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
You will need a Driving license and use of vehicle for work purposes
This is a training position. The post holder will undertake training at University College London alongside working in service for our SET CAMHS Service (South End, Essex & Thurrock)
The Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) role has been developed by NHS England as part of the Children and Young People's Psychological Trainings (formerly CYP Improving Access to Psychological Therapies - CYP IAPT) programme. It is being rolled out in children and young people's mental health services across the country.
The course focuses on working within community and primary care settings to increase access to support for children, young people and families. You'll be trained as a CWP to offer evidence-based interventions like low intensity support and guided self-help.
This course enables you to support children and young people with mild to moderate:
Additionally, you will:
They will also be taught how to deliver interventions in the community, for example, participation activities, training and group delivery.
Applicants will need to be ready to start work on 17th January 2025 and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date.
The post holder will attend all university based taught and self-study days required by the education provider, as specified within the agreed national curriculum and work in the service for the remaining days of the week using their newly developed skills.
The PgDip CWP training programme will take place over 12 months
+ Term one: three days per week
+ Term two: two days per week
+ Term three: one day per week
During university holidays, you're expected to work full time in your service. Trainees will have the usual annual leave allocation in line with HCRG Care Group Policy.
Assessment
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner Trainee within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: