Description
As part of our expanding Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs), this is an exciting opportunity to join our School Based Needs teams as a Senior Wellbeing practitioner (SWP).
The SWP role is a Senior role within the low intensity CBT workforce, enabling practitioners to build on their CBT clinical skills and develop supervision skills.
The successful candidates will have a foundation training and be accredited as an EMHP or CWP, and have two year's post qualification experience in January 2027.
The post comes with a mandatory 2 year parallel Senior Wellbeing Practitioner (SWP) advance clinical skills and supervisor training program at the University of Southampton, and successful completion of this is a requirement for this role.
The EMHP supervision course is designed to provide the EMHP supervisor with comprehensive training in the knowledge, skills and competencies required to deliver effective clinical supervision as part of the MHST initiative.
Applicant criteria include substantive knowledge and experience of wellbeing delivery within education settings and/or CBT / Low Intensity CBT interventions.
The role involves delivering evidence-based 1-1 and group interventions for children, young people and their parents/carers, advice and consultation to schools, and whole school approaches to mental health, as well as supporting trainees and newly qualified Children's Wellbeing Practioners/Education Mental Health Practitioners (CWPs/EMHPs) through joint working, clinical skills groups, and supervision.
The salary for this role is £41,957 to £50,387 a year, including 5% HCAS per annum, pro-rata.
Benefits:
- Free parking
- Excellent health and wellbeing support
- Flexible working
- Wide range of staff networks
- Opportunities for development and progression
Requirements:
- CYP-MH Post-Graduate Diploma or Certificate (CWP/EMHP) with two years post qualification experience within the CYP-MH model by January 2027.
- Experience and ability to function as a practitioner in CYP mental health services.
- Demonstrable post qualification experience, including experience of working with CYP's with mild to moderate mental health problems and their families using CBT or CBT informed guided self help.
- Experience of managing and prioritising a caseload.
- Evidence of good practice in CAMHS assessment facilitation.
- Evidence of providing culturally adapted interventions.
- Experience in design and delivery of workshops, groups and interventions to CYP target audience.
- Evidence of experience of clinical governance, Outcome Measures and audits.
Desirable:
- Working with families in a diverse environment
- Experience in working as part of an MDT
- Experience of undertaking qualitative and quantitative research methodology
- Experience of supervising junior staff or trainees
- Experience in working with children and adolescents with Special Educational Needs.
- Experience of working with children and adolescents with learning disability or ASD.