Job summary
Are you a hardworking and ambitious Qualified Child Wellbeing Practitioner?
Do you currently work in a CWP role and would like to join a service that will help you develop your therapy skills and progress in your career?
Hillingdon CAMHS are looking to recruit two creative, flexible, adaptable, professional, and motivated Child Wellbeing Practitioners.
These are 23 months fixed-term positions and the post-holders will be working as part of the multi-disciplinary teams delivering high-quality, brief, outcome-focused, and evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing moderate mental health difficulties.
Main duties of the job
Child Wellbeing Practitioners would support the development and delivery of a wide range of interventions including:
- Deliver brief Goal-Based Interventions
- Manage a small caseload of service users
- Help with Routine Outcome Measures (ROMS) administration
- Help with updating CAMHS website and staff photo boards
- Supporting Neurodevelopmental assessments
- Supporting school observations
- Supporting Assessment Clinics & team meeting by taking notes
- Supporting CAMHS Triage Teams
- Supporting Treatment Waiting List Initiatives
- Supporting Initial Assessment Waiting List Initiatives
- Supporting clinicians by taking session notes
- Group work
The post-holder will also oversee all elements of Participation in the borough. This includes engaging all service users in various ways to gain feedback and participate in shaping local Children and Adolescent Mental Health services and will require traveling across the borough and the CAMHS service line.
The Child Wellbeing Practitioner will work with children, Young People, and Families from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary, and should be committed to equal opportunities.
About us
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Hillingdon CAMHS is committed to offering to the post holder:
- Excellent supervision
- CPD workshops
- Peer supervision
- Skills training such as Motivational Interviewing, brief psychological interventions
- Ongoing day-to-day support by duty consultant, duty senior clinician, and Clinical Team Leads to facilitate safe practice, career progression, and job satisfaction.
The Child Wellbeing Practitioners will work with children, Young People, and Families from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary, and should be committed to equal opportunities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work in partnership with children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families delivering CBT based Guided Self-Help intervention
- Work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of goals for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
- Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about the intervention.
- Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognizes and respects diversity.
- Undertake accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
- Adhere to the service referral protocols.
- Provide information and support to children, YP and their parents to access appropriate further help if required.
- Provide intervention and engage children, YP and their parents using face-to-face, telephone or other media.
- Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered, and sessions carried out per week in order to improve timely access and minimize waiting times.
- Attend multi-disciplinary team meetings
- Keep coherent records of all activity in line with service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decisions making . Complete all requirements relating to data collection
- To be proactive and creative
- To ensure the quality of all work is maintained to a high standard an ensure reports to evidence this are available on request.
- To record clinical activity and clinical outcomes in according with Trust policy and procedures
- To actively access and participate in training opportunities
- To attend regular supervision
- To raise the quality standards of our Service and ensure that policies and procedures are adhered to and practise in line with the National CAMHS agenda, NICE guidelines and CNWL policies and procedures.
- The post-holder is expected to work in consultation with other members of the team and other participation colleagues from within the CNWL CAMHS service.
- Utilising participation groups/resource, to consult with young people and encourage their active participation in all aspects of planning, decision-making and delivery of services.
- To work within the local safeguarding requirements for clinicians as per CNWL Safeguarding policy
- To be involved in audit and quality improvement projects.
- To establish and maintain positive relationships with local organisations
- To be actively involved in obtaining feedback from young people and families about their treatment, and take initiative in service improvement processes based on this feedback
- To work with service users and their families to develop approaches to monitoring and evaluating client satisfaction. This will include inputting data and producing feedback reports on a regular basis.
- To develop, order and maintain appropriate resources and materials, using participatory approaches to help local communitys access local CAMHS services e.g. (video, leaflets and webpages).
- To run the local participation group and take a leading role in service user involvement within CAMHS.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work in partnership with children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families delivering CBT based Guided Self-Help intervention
- Work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of goals for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
- Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about the intervention.
- Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognizes and respects diversity.
- Undertake accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
- Adhere to the service referral protocols.
- Provide information and support to children, YP and their parents to access appropriate further help if required.
- Provide intervention and engage children, YP and their parents using face-to-face, telephone or other media.
- Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered, and sessions carried out per week in order to improve timely access and minimize waiting times.
- Attend multi-disciplinary team meetings
- Keep coherent records of all activity in line with service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decisions making . Complete all requirements relating to data collection
- To be proactive and creative
- To ensure the quality of all work is maintained to a high standard an ensure reports to evidence this are available on request.
- To record clinical activity and clinical outcomes in according with Trust policy and procedures
- To actively access and participate in training opportunities
- To attend regular supervision
- To raise the quality standards of our Service and ensure that policies and procedures are adhered to and practise in line with the National CAMHS agenda, NICE guidelines and CNWL policies and procedures.
- The post-holder is expected to work in consultation with other members of the team and other participation colleagues from within the CNWL CAMHS service.
- Utilising participation groups/resource, to consult with young people and encourage their active participation in all aspects of planning, decision-making and delivery of services.
- To work within the local safeguarding requirements for clinicians as per CNWL Safeguarding policy
- To be involved in audit and quality improvement projects.
- To establish and maintain positive relationships with local organisations
- To be actively involved in obtaining feedback from young people and families about their treatment, and take initiative in service improvement processes based on this feedback
- To work with service users and their families to develop approaches to monitoring and evaluating client satisfaction. This will include inputting data and producing feedback reports on a regular basis.
- To develop, order and maintain appropriate resources and materials, using participatory approaches to help local communitys access local CAMHS services e.g. (video, leaflets and webpages).
- To run the local participation group and take a leading role in service user involvement within CAMHS.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Child Wellbeing Practitioner Post Graduate Certificate.
- Evidence of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties
- Evidence of ability to study successfully at undergraduate level or the equivalent
Desirable
- Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, counselling or within a specific psychological therapy
- Psychology or other health /social care/youth related undergraduate degree
- Other relevant postgraduate degree
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
Desirable
- Experience of working in mental health or related services
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place to demonstrating outcomes
- Ability to manage own caseolad and time
Skills
Essential
- Ability to translate Theory to effective practice
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Excellent time management skills
Other
Essential
- High Level of enthusiasm & motivation Advanced Communication Skills
- Ability to work within a team and foster good relationships
- Ability to use Clinical Supervision and personal Development positively & effectively
- Ability to Work under pressure
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- Ability to self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Children & Young People
Desirable
- Demonstrate a knowledge of the issues & context surrounding the work and how this can impact on Children & Young Peoples mental health.
- Demonstrate an understanding of evidence based practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Child Wellbeing Practitioner Post Graduate Certificate.
- Evidence of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties
- Evidence of ability to study successfully at undergraduate level or the equivalent
Desirable
- Training in nursing, social work, occupational therapy, counselling or within a specific psychological therapy
- Psychology or other health /social care/youth related undergraduate degree
- Other relevant postgraduate degree
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties
- Demonstrates high standards in written communication
Desirable
- Experience of working in mental health or related services
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place to demonstrating outcomes
- Ability to manage own caseolad and time
Skills
Essential
- Ability to translate Theory to effective practice
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Excellent time management skills
Other
Essential
- High Level of enthusiasm & motivation Advanced Communication Skills
- Ability to work within a team and foster good relationships
- Ability to use Clinical Supervision and personal Development positively & effectively
- Ability to Work under pressure
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- Ability to self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Children & Young People
Desirable
- Demonstrate a knowledge of the issues & context surrounding the work and how this can impact on Children & Young Peoples mental health.
- Demonstrate an understanding of evidence based practice.
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).
