Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner

Job Introduction
As a Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team in Wiltshire Children's Services. You will feel valued as a Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £26,712 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 everyday 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 as 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 have an exciting opportunity to join our Children's Service in Wiltshire as a Trainee 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.

In this extremely rewarding role, you 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, and behavioral 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.

You will attend all university-based teaching and will have 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.

This is a fixed-term opportunity for 12 months.

Main Responsibilities

• Assess and deliver, under supervision, outcome-focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Work in partnership to support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
• Collaborate 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 recognizes and respects diversity.
• Accept referrals within agreed national and local protocols.
• Undertake accurate assessment of risk to self and others. Adhere to the service referral protocols. Under supervision, signpost unsuitable referrals to the relevant service as necessary.
• Through close case management and supervision, escalate cases where the level of need becomes beyond scope or more severe, ensuring adherence to other relevant elements of service delivery.
• Provide a range of information and support for evidence-based psychological treatments. This may include guided self-help. This work may be face-to-face, by telephone, or via other media.
• Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered and sessions carried out per week in order to improve timely access and minimize waiting times.
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or CYP in treatment, where appropriate.

For a full list of role responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description.

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. 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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