Bank Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner - Mid EssexinChelmsfordinChelmsfordPUBLISHED FRI 14 MAR 2025

We have a fantastic opportunity within our SET CAMHS Team (part of Targeted and System support services Essex) for an Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and motivated to make a real difference in our community.

At HCRG Care Group we believe our employees know best about the work they do. In this role you will be encouraged to innovate and use different approaches that are best for the children and young people that you are working closely with.

The role also offers a great work life balance, overseeing the management of your own diary.

• Hold a caseload of clients, delivering goal-based interventions to support their wellbeing
• To prevent more serious mental health problems in children and young people by early identification of the development of mental health problems in children and young people
• Plan, deliver and review individual and group therapeutic interventions for specific patients.
• To routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical intervention.
• Providing a direct service to children and young people and their families, in an accessible and less stigmatising environment, based on the best available research evidence, within clinical governance
• Oversee the development of Wellbeing Coaches and other practitioners within the service

About us

As anEmotional Wellbeing Practitioner, youll be part of our valued team within our Essex Child and Family wellbeing servicesreceiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Bank Rate of £17.73 per hour.
• Self-booking and access to all bank shifts!Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
• Request a Duty Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
• HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access toWagestream- which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
• Working in an environment focused on thehighest clinical and quality standards
• Opportunitiesto work indifferent areas and various different servicesto gain new knowledge and experience
• Access to ourStrive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
• Access to ourfree well-being serviceavailable 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
• Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunitiescontinuing your professional development
• Innovative forward-thinking culturewith the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
• Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual Ask our Executives event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

The Ideal Candidate

• Minimum of a second-class Bachelors degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology) AND/OR a registerable professional qualification in a relevant subject (e.g. medicine, psychology, social work) from a UK university of overseas professional qualification of an equivalent standards OR Qualified Wellbeing Practitioner; Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP), Childrens wellbeing Practitioner (CWP), Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or other CYP IAPT therapy training.
• Further professional knowledge and skill sgained through accredredited CPD courses/workshops/study/in-house training
• 2 years experience in relevant area of mental health practice
• Assessment, planning, formulation and evaluation of patients psychological difficulties
• Good understanding and experience of using Routine Outcome Measures
• Application of Evidenced based psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service
• Knowledge and direct clinical experience of adapting interventions and delivering them to CYP
• Experience of delivering and managing clinical risk
• Understanding of child development and psychosocial influences
• Experience of delivering Low Intensity/Psycho-educational interventions to groups of CYP and/or parents/caregivers
• Commitment to continuous professional development
• Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to work autonomously but recognising the philosophy of effective integrated working
• Ability to use Word, Power Point, Email, Excel (or similar spread sheet or database package) and SystmOne
• Motivate and enthuse others to change by developing clinical practice
• Experience of developing effective relationships and networks across health, social care and the voluntary and community sector.

Access to a car and full driving licence is essential requirement for this role.