Educational Wellbeing Practitioner (EWP)

The Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) are designed to help meet mild to moderate mental health needs of children and young people in education settings. They are made up of senior clinicians, CAMHS Practitioners and Education Wellbeing Practitioners (EWPs). They will be based across education settings as an additional resource within a whole-system approach to promote resilience and wellbeing, support earlier intervention, enable appropriate signposting and deliver evidence-based support, care and interventions.

The MHSTwill partner with their education settings to design a bespokeoffer, based on the school's individual needs and will work with the mental health services that are already in place, such as counselling,educational psychology, school nurses, pastoral care, educational welfare officers, VCSEs, the local authority, including children's social care, andNHS Children and Young People Mental Health Services (CYPMHS).

Our MHST currently works with 15 schools across Croydon. The successful candidate will be employed by Croydon CAMHS and will be expected to liaise with CAMHS teams when appropriate. The MHST deliver emotional wellbeing interventions using Guided Self Help strategies., As an qualified EWP you will have successfully completed training as a trainee EMHP/CWP. You will be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge and capabilities to work as a qualified EMHP/CWP, as an autonomous and responsible practitioner within your scope of practice, alongside education and health colleagues.

You will be confident in providing manualised 1-1 and group interventions based on Guided Self Help with young people and families in anxiety, low mood and behaviours that challenge.

You are expected to liaise and work effectively with the wider network around the child including educational, social care, family and health.

Support and facilitate activities under the PHE whole school approach framework.

Improve access to mental health and wellbeing support, working with cultural diverse populations and adapting services to improve access.

Croydon MHST is a friendly and supportive team who have developed a close partnership with local schools in providing lowintensity interventions, creating workshops and groups and adapting services to meet the needs of schools, young people and families inCroydon in line with CYP-IAPT principles.