Wellbeing Practitioner for Children and Young People

The trainee Wellbeing Practitioner for Children and Young People programme is a workforce development initiative delivered by Health Education England and HEI partners that aims to improve existing children and young people's mental health Services (CYP MHS) working in the community. The CWP training will benefit from being integrated fully within CYP MHS and linked to the local community of practice, which brings a valuable organisational infrastructure.

The post-holder will work within a CYP MHS as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering, under supervision, high-quality; outcome -informed, focused, evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing, mild to moderate anxiety, low mood, behavioural difficulties.

The training and service experience will equip the post holder with the necessary knowledge, attitude, and capabilities to operate effectively in an inclusive, value driven service.

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.
Package DescriptionAs a Wellbeing Practitioner for Children and Young People, you'll be part of our valued High Post Salisbury in Wiltshire.

You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Group pension
Free tea and coffee 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 a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities
Assess and deliver, under supervision outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
Working in partnership, support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
Work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about the intervention.
Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
Accept referrals within agreed national and local protocols.

Evidence of ability to study successfully at undergraduate level or the equivalent.
Evidence of numeracy

Experience

Experience of working with children and/or young people

Skills & Competencies

Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
Computer literate.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills and use of internet mediated communication.
Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
Able to develop good professional relationships with colleagues inside and beyond child and adolescent mental health services.
Responsive to and willing to ask for feedback and supervision.

Knowledge

Knowledge of child and adolescent development and the role of the family in supporting children and young people's emotional well-being
Understanding of systems and contexts in which children and young people are likely to live.

Training

Able to attend the formal training as required.
Able to complete academic components of the course.
Able to integrate training into practice.

About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.

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.