Job summary
Healthy Minds Lincolnshire provides early and preventative emotional wellbeing interventions for children, young people and their families across Lincolnshire. First established in 2017, the service has provided intervention, advice or guidance to many children & young people across the County. The service works with children and young people on a variety of emotional wellbeing needs including but not limited to: anxiety, low mood, self-harm, self-esteem, and anger.
We are advertising for four Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP) to work within our Healthy Minds Teams (Boston, Horncastle, Grantham and Lincoln), to provide additional capacity to tackle common low-level mental health difficulties in children and young people.
Healthy Minds Lincolnshire prides itself on its dynamic approaches to supporting children, young people, parents/carers and professionals, and seek those eager to bring creativity & passion to the service.
This is an exciting opportunity for motivated and highly organised individuals with a passion for children and young people's emotional wellbeing to help shape the Healthy Minds Lincolnshire service and develop their knowledge and skills.
Main duties of the job
The primary objectives of the role are to:
Assess and deliver outcome focussed, brief evidence-based interventions to children and young people with mild-to-moderate difficulties at an early stage of need. This will include individual face-to-face work and groupwork.
Facilitate access to support from and provide support to community services (e.g. youth groups);
Liaise with supervisors to agree appropriate signposting and referrals for children and young people with needs not covered by the CWP role.
Trainee CWP's will undertake a 12-month training programme with the University of Northampton. This will be split between classroom theory (virtual and face to face) and practice placements within local services. This post will be a Band 4 (NHS Pay System) post during training and Band 5 once qualified. The role of the supervisor within the training period of CWPs is pivotal, with high-quality supervision being provided to Trainee CWPs, to ensure the successful delivery and sustainability of interventions
The successful applicant will be able to travel around this large rural county, travel to the University and will be able to work flexibly according to the needs of the service.
You will be expected to be familiar with children's safeguarding procedures in Lincolnshire and demonstrate good working relationships with other professionals to enable the provision of holistic care to children, young people and their families.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details, please refer to the job description and person specification.
Be supervised, supported and assessed to assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
Developing skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
Developing and practicing evidence-based skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.
Developing and learning the skills required in order to enable children and young people, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and coproduce their own agreed plan of care.
Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details, please refer to the job description and person specification.
Be supervised, supported and assessed to assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
Developing skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
Developing and practicing evidence-based skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.
Developing and learning the skills required in order to enable children and young people, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and coproduce their own agreed plan of care.
Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- One or more level 3 qualifications
- Demonstrate an ability to study and complete components of an academic components of the course at degree level
- Experience of working within education, or healthcare and working with children of young people
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working with children and/or young people
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting
- Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children's emotional wellbeing
- Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas
- Experience of working with looked after children
- Experience of working with other vulnerable groups
Skills and Competences
Essential
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to run psychoeducational groups
- Motivation and commitment to undertake and complete the course
Desirable
- Ability to teach others about mental health issues
Knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge of child and adolescent development and the role of the family in supporting children and young people's emotional well being
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- One or more level 3 qualifications
- Demonstrate an ability to study and complete components of an academic components of the course at degree level
- Experience of working within education, or healthcare and working with children of young people
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working with children and/or young people
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting
- Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children's emotional wellbeing
- Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas
- Experience of working with looked after children
- Experience of working with other vulnerable groups
Skills and Competences
Essential
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to run psychoeducational groups
- Motivation and commitment to undertake and complete the course
Desirable
- Ability to teach others about mental health issues
Knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge of child and adolescent development and the role of the family in supporting children and young people's emotional well being
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
