Job summary
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and creative qualified Children and Young Person's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) to join Lambeth Child & Adolescent Mental Heath Services (CAMHS).
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, clinical work in community settings, collaborative practice and be skilled in delivering low intensity interventions informed by Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Main duties of the job
The Child and Youth Wellbeing Team in Lambeth provides support for mild to moderate difficulties using evidence based guided self-help interventions to both parents and young people. This is an exciting time for the team as we are expanding and developing new ways of working, with a focus on developing links within the community. In addition to the low intensity face to face manualised interventions, the post holder will provide psycho education, specific groups and signposting of more complex cases. The team are also embedded within the wider Lambeth CAMHS service and CWP members have the opportunity to join meetings, reflective practice groups and clinical skills training with staff across Lambeth CAMHS.
The Child and Youth Wellbeing Team consists of clinical service leads (job share), a CBT Therapist, a Recruit to Train Trainee CBT Therapist, 3 qualified CWPs and 2 Trainee CWPs. The team is part of a friendly and nurturing local CAMHS team, where there are good training opportunities with a supportive leadership team. Lambeth CAMHS has 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. Lambeth is an inner city, ethnically diverse community and applicants will have an interest in and understanding of diversity issues and how they link to mental health in children and young people.
About us
The London Borough of Lambeth has a population of 317,800 (GLA 2020). Lambeth's population is highly diverse, a characteristic visible in the breadth of ethnic and cultural traditions seen throughout the borough. It is estimated that 63% of the population describe their ethnicity as other than White British; 23% describe their ethnicity as Black (11% Black African, 7% Black Caribbean and 5% OtherBlack), 22% White Other and 6% as Asian.
The Annual population survey, estimates that a third of Lambeth's residents are non-UK born. Of these non-UK born, 40% are of wider European origin, 20% are of African origin; and 20% of Central or South American origin. Nearly 150 languages are spoken as the first language in the homes of Lambeth school children. Portuguese, Spanish and Somali, are the most commonly spoken other languages in Lambeth. Lambeth has a child and youth population aged 0-20 of almost 70,000. Over 50% of this number are 0 to 9 years old.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will work within the Lambeth CWP programme, providing high volume low intensity interventions, consisting of a range of Guided Self Help (GSH) self-management courses to Children and Young People (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate anxiety, depression and/or challenging behaviour. The post-holder will carry out online and face to face assessments and guided self-help interventions mainly within schools. There will be opportunities to pursue special interests including workshops and groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will work within the Lambeth CWP programme, providing high volume low intensity interventions, consisting of a range of Guided Self Help (GSH) self-management courses to Children and Young People (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate anxiety, depression and/or challenging behaviour. The post-holder will carry out online and face to face assessments and guided self-help interventions mainly within schools. There will be opportunities to pursue special interests including workshops and groups.
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 work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- 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 work within a team and foster good working relationships.
- 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.
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).
