Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner

Package Description

As an Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued Wiltshire Children's Service. You will feel valued as an Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £31,710.00 with access to our 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

Job Introduction

We're looking for a compassionate, motivated, and skilled Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner (Children's Wellbeing Practitioner) to join our dedicated team.

The Children and young people wellbeing service is underpinned by the Thrive Framework.

The children and young people wellbeing service will offer timely and flexible support for children, young people and their families with professionals thinking holistically about the needs of the child or young person rather than focusing on a diagnosis. Our aim is to build resilience in Children, young people, their families/carers, and professionals and to be informed about support available, the choices they have, empowering them to understand what they can do to help themselves, and how to support future mental health needs.

The post holder will have an active caseload of children and young people within the ‘Getting Help’ sphere of support and will use evidence-based Low-intensity CBT interventions. These interventions will be delivered in a range of settings and will include parental and family support.

Main Responsibilities

• Hold a caseload of clients, delivering Low-intensity CBT outcome-based interventions to support their wellbeing
• Develop psychological formulations for individual patients that contribute towards the overall assessment of their care needs
• Collaboratively establish individual patient’s goals towards recovery
• Plan, deliver and review individual and group therapeutic interventions for specific patients
• Determine suitability of specific interventions, including group and individual modalities, based on the patient’s assessment/formulation
• To undertake initial school and community-based assessments and to deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties where appropriate
• To routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions

A full list of role responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Qualified Children’s wellbeing Practitioner (CWP)
• Further professional knowledge and skills gained through accredredited CPD courses/workshops/study/in-house training
• Assessment, planning, formulation and evaluation of patient’s psychological difficulties
• Good understanding and experience of using Routine Outcome Measures
• Application of Evidenced based psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service
• Knowledge and direct clinical experience of adapting interventions and delivering them to CYP
• Experience of delivering and managing clinical risk
• Understanding of child development and psychosocial influences
• Experience of delivering Low Intensity/Psycho-educational interventions to groups of CYP and/or parents/caregivers
• Commitment to continuous professional development
• Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to work autonomously but recognising the philosophy of effective integrated working
• Ability to use Word, Power Point, Email, Excel (or similar spread sheet or database package) and SystmOne
• Motivate and enthuse others to change by developing clinical practice
• Experience of developing effective relationships and networks across health, social care and the voluntary and community sector

Desirable

• Clinical Leadership Experience
• Experienced in innovative clinical practice
• Experience in applying specialist psychological therapies

About the Company

We 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.

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