Children and Young People's Mental Health Practitioner

1 x Childrens Mental Health Practitioner to work with Children in Care - 37 hours per week - permanent contract.

As an experienced, worker in trauma/ mental and emotional wellbeing/systemic practice, would you like to work for an 'Outstanding' local authority - one with an established management team, committed to developing excellent practice and ensuring that our staff receive the best support we can offer?

There has never been a more exciting time to join our service: alongside making a difference to the lives of children and families, we have adopted exciting new strengths-based systemic approaches and are passionate about delivering continuous service improvement.

We need someone with experience and determination to support children and young adults in care and care experienced to provide stability in their lives and support them to build resilience and manage trauma through direct intervention in their lives.

You will be a part of a therapeutic systemic team, social work assistants, fostering support workers, social workers, personal advisers and Camhs.

You will have experience and use of models and approaches that are part of an evidenced based framework for practice with children and young people in emotional distress.

We've implemented a new system from Monday 4th March which will improve your candidate experience!, Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, and we were recognised as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021.

At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us.

Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are the bigger difference we make to the people we serve.

Staff undergo training and ongoing skills development workshops within children's services and Camhs and follow a structured intervention programme with children and families which aims to work collaboratively with and increase engagement.

Our brilliant practitioners are at the heart of our ambitious approach to improve outcomes for children and families in Telford and Wrekin.

We value our practitioners and offer staff rewards and plenty of opportunities for personal development and career progression including:

Free on-site parking

Full reimbursement of your annual Social Work England registration fee (if applicable)

Essential car user allowance

Flexible and mobile working policy - we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home - our approach is to promote greater level of flexible working.

Here at Telford and Wrekin Council, we have been judged to be outstanding overall in terms of effectiveness (the only Authority in the West Midlands with this judgement).

Children are cared for and cared about

Social Workers and other staff who support children are very committed and they are exceptionally well trained

Children are listened to and their experiences are well understood

Senior Leaders aspire to a service for every child that they would welcome for their own

Children benefit from a stable workforce which is highly committed and experienced

Staff experience a wide range of development opportunities

If you share our passion for making a difference, we would be delighted if you joined us., In return we also offer a great range of benefits including competitive salaries, flexible working hours and work arrangements, employee discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, a local government pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.

At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice and we know we are stronger and better connected as a result.

We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and where our data shows that specific groups are under-represented within our workforce, our adverts will actively encourage applications from these groups.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions. You can find out more about this and our 'guaranteed interview scheme' here

You can also read more about our Recruitment and Selection Policy and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders here and the Transgender & Non-Binary Inclusion Policy commitments here