Qualified Child Wellbeing Practitioner

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and creative Children and Young Person well-being Practitioners (CWPs) to join our teams at Lewisham CAMHS.

Please note that candidates must hold qualifications from a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) course. Unfortunately, we are currently unable to consider candidates from the MHST training pathway due to BABCP/BPS registration regulations.

Candidates must demonstrate evidence of eligibility for registration with either BABCP or BPS.

If you are a newly qualified graduate, you will need to provide evidence that you are able to gain registration at the time of the interview. This can be from your previous or current clinical supervisor.
If you have completed your course, you must provide proof of registration at the time of the interview.

This CWP role supports the government's priority of increasing access to and availability of mental health and well-being support for children and young people. The post holder will demonstrate an active interest in early intervention, prevention and promotion, clinical work in community settings, and collaborative practice and be skilled in delivering low-intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy interventions.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting time to be joining one of our CWP teams. As a Trust, we are committed to ensuring equality in access for our young people and their families. CWP teams provide Early Intervention, Prevention and Promotion, working in partnership with Primary Care and Community Providers to support mild to moderate difficulties using evidence-based guided self-help interventions to parents and young people. In addition to the low-intensity face-to-face manualised interventions, the post holder will provide psycho-education, specific groups, signposting of more complex cases, adopting a community approach to mental health and wellbeing. Our teams are embedded within the Tier 2 CAMHS service from which they accept referrals.

The Child and Youth Wellbeing Team consist of a Service Lead, a CAMHS clinical specialist, qualified CWPs and trainees. All of our team benefit from a friendly and nurturing local CAMHS team, where there are good training opportunities with a supportive leadership team. With good links to local social care, education, and voluntary services, as well as National and Specialist CAMHS and our teaching and research colleagues within KCL. All our SLaM boroughs have ethnically diverse communities, and applicants will be interested in and understand diversity issues and how they link to mental health in children and young people.

About us

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Childcare vouchers

Date posted

30 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£35,964 to £43,780 a year per annum Incl. HCAs

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

334-CLI-6839797

Job locations

78 Lewisham Park,

Ladywell

London

SE13 6QJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

Qualification from CWP training course (e.g. Post Graduate Certificate) or Trainee CWP approaching the end of their training.

Desirable

Psychology or other health related undergraduate degree.

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in a CWP site
Evidence of working with children and young people who have experienced a mental health problem.
Experience working in a service which has agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes

Desirable

Evidence of working in the local community.

Skills

Essential

Skills in enabling Guided Self-Help interventions
Received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice.
Ability to manage own caseload and time. and to work under pressure.

Knowledge

Essential

Demonstrates an understanding of the need to use evidence based psychological models and how it relates to this post.
Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety, depression and challenging behaviour and how it may present in universal services.
Demonstrates knowledge of guided self-help interventions for anxiety, depression and challenging behaviour

Desirable

Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

Qualification from CWP training course (e.g. Post Graduate Certificate) or Trainee CWP approaching the end of their training.

Desirable

Psychology or other health related undergraduate degree.

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in a CWP site
Evidence of working with children and young people who have experienced a mental health problem.
Experience working in a service which has agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes

Desirable

Evidence of working in the local community.

Skills

Essential

Skills in enabling Guided Self-Help interventions
Received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice.
Ability to manage own caseload and time. and to work under pressure.

Knowledge

Essential

Demonstrates an understanding of the need to use evidence based psychological models and how it relates to this post.
Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety, depression and challenging behaviour and how it may present in universal services.
Demonstrates knowledge of guided self-help interventions for anxiety, depression and challenging behaviour

Desirable

Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

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