Job summary
To work, under supervision, within the integrated multi-disciplinary team, delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild-moderate anxiety, low mood and behavioural difficulties. Alongside this to attend university and undertake the CYP Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) programme.
Main duties of the job
This Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner role includes completion of the Child Wellbeing Practice Postgraduate (or the potential for Graduate) level Diploma run by the University of Sussex, which follows the nationally agreed curriculum to qualify as a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner. This year the course will run from March 2023, for 12 months, with in general 2 taught days at university per week from March to December,with some university holiday weeks built in,followed by time to consolidate skills and meet the final academic deadline for the course. The teaching is a blend of in-person and online.
About us
We always put people first and that includes you - become part of our team and we'll support you every step of the way in every way.
Our mission is to champion the rights of people with mental healthdifficulties and learning disabilities, and we work with our partners to bring health and care services together to improve the care they receive.
Our vision is to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve.
We're working to achieve our mission and vision through our organisational strategy: people, prevention and partnerships. This involves:
- Joining up services in partnership across health, social care, housing, employment and education
- Creating and sustaining a collaborative, compassionate and caring organisational culture which promotes inclusion
- Using our resources wisely, which includes research, innovation and learning to develop new treatments and develop our workforce
- Promoting health, wellbeing and resilience within the communities we serve
Job description
Job responsibilities
Participation in this course involves learning the theory, and then translating this into practice in your service, and covers a wide range of materials over 8 taught modules. There are a variety of assessment modes to assess the required knowledge and competencies. This training equips the student to acquire relevant knowledge to be an effective community mental health professional, working with children, young people, and their parents/carers. It provides the trainee with the opportunity to gain competence in the core skills needed to assess and formulate mild to moderate mental health difficulties with children and young people (CYP), before being able to then learn the skills to work with them, using a specific cognitive-behaviourally informed therapeutic intervention to meet the identified mental health need. The trainee will learn therapeutic interventions to use 1:1 with children and young peopleand in group settings; ways to work with parents and carers of CYP with anxiety and worry, or those with behaviours that challenge; how to engage CYP, parents/carers and staff working with CYP in psychoeducation workshops to promote mental wellbeing for CYP. Students will also learn the thresholds for guided self-help for CYP, direct low-intensity intervention work, and when to refer on to other services within the local stepped care model.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Participation in this course involves learning the theory, and then translating this into practice in your service, and covers a wide range of materials over 8 taught modules. There are a variety of assessment modes to assess the required knowledge and competencies. This training equips the student to acquire relevant knowledge to be an effective community mental health professional, working with children, young people, and their parents/carers. It provides the trainee with the opportunity to gain competence in the core skills needed to assess and formulate mild to moderate mental health difficulties with children and young people (CYP), before being able to then learn the skills to work with them, using a specific cognitive-behaviourally informed therapeutic intervention to meet the identified mental health need. The trainee will learn therapeutic interventions to use 1:1 with children and young peopleand in group settings; ways to work with parents and carers of CYP with anxiety and worry, or those with behaviours that challenge; how to engage CYP, parents/carers and staff working with CYP in psychoeducation workshops to promote mental wellbeing for CYP. Students will also learn the thresholds for guided self-help for CYP, direct low-intensity intervention work, and when to refer on to other services within the local stepped care model.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The minimum required qualification for the Post Graduate Diploma is a 2:1 Degree. The minimum for the Graduate Diploma is A-Levels at grade minimum of ABB, or minimum of BBC (if relevant further training and experience)
- Proven record of previous academic attainment.
- Good solid basic literacy and numeracy qualifications at a minimum of level 2
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The minimum required qualification for the Post Graduate Diploma is a 2:1 Degree. The minimum for the Graduate Diploma is A-Levels at grade minimum of ABB, or minimum of BBC (if relevant further training and experience)
- Proven record of previous academic attainment.
- Good solid basic literacy and numeracy qualifications at a minimum of level 2
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.
