Emotional Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

Job summary

The successful candidate will join the CAMHS Team, and participate in a team structure that has responsibility for providing early, identification and brief intervention to promote positive emotional wellbeing and resilience.

The role will primarily support the Clinical Nurse Specialist for school liaison to engage school aged children in the provision of education, to promote the emotional wellbeing and resilience through the delivery of agreed programmes of group and individual interventions that have been identified.

The role will provide advice, support and training to education staff.

The role will ensure the child/young person's needs are addressed in a timely manner and by the right professional

Main duties of the job

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a proactive, enthusiastic individual to work as part of the Swansea Bay Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, providing emotional and mental wellbeing to children and young people aged 4 - 18, within the educational setting.

Individuals would also be required to provide advice and support to school staff.

This is an exciting and proactive service within CAMHS and requires the post holder to be able to work under their own direction. Ability to interpret and advise children, young people, their families and schools on emotional and mental health needs. The post holder will be managed and supported by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health team to develop and progress the role and to cultivate a stepped care approach.

This is an opportunity to make a real difference to the service and care that children, young people and their families receive.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. The successful post holder will be based within Neath Port Talbot Hospital and cover the Swansea Bay locality.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve