Senior Wellbeing Practitioner in Ashington inAshington PUBLISHED MON 13 JAN 2025 Jump to job information section

Northumberland Primary Mental Health Work Service has an exciting opportunity for 1 Senior Band 6 Educational Mental Health Practitioner to deliver the Be You mental health support team in the Central (Ashington/Bedlington) partnership of schools.

This demonstrates our commitment to career progression of the EMHPs within the service, expanding our mental health in schools' teams.

We are looking for an enthusiastic qualified Senior Wellbeing Practitioner with 2 years of post-qualifying experience and experience of delivering IAPT low intensity supervision.

We are interested in passionate Wellbeing Practitioners committed to delivering innovative ways of working.

The role will provide consolidated and enhanced clinical skills in the Senior Wellbeing Practitioner role, leading the co-ordination and delivery of evidence-based interventions for children and young people in education with mild to moderate mental health problems. The post holder will provide enhanced Systems Working Skills and a lead role in the service development. The role will involve the co-ordination, delivery and evaluation of the whole schools approaches (EMHPs only) and school-based consultation models.

We provide excellent clinical, case management and peer led clinical skills supervision arrangements, training and CPD.

We support a blended /hybrid model of working and ensure suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role.

To provide consolidated & Enhanced Clinical Skills in the role of a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner.

To deliver evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.

To provide enhanced System Working Skills

To provide support to other professionals in their Development

To ensure understanding of Relevant Legislation for the role of a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

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The post holder will be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge and skills in: helping children and young people within these settings who present with a deterioration in their emotional/mental wellbeing access the necessary support in a timely way to access more specialist services.

Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings and those EMHPs/CWPs that are supervised to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.

Working with and within education and community environments to access to specialist mental health services.

Skills with associated knowledge acquired through completion of the Senior Wellbeing Programme and demonstrable practical ability.

Demonstrating enhanced skills in and experience and competence in the full range of low-intensity interventions for mild-moderate low mood, anxiety-based, and behavioural difficulties. This will align with Senior Wellbeing Practitioner training in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.

Demonstrating and practicing evidence-based intervention to independently under the guidance and supervisory support working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.

Demonstrating confidence in developing and learning the skills required in order to enable children and young people in education, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and co-produce their own agreed plan of care there will be an expectation to work independently within service remote working arrangements.

Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.

To contribute to decision making and to agree to accept and agree to accept appropriate referrals for children and young people in educational settings, according to agreed local and national and local referral routes, processes and procedures.

To be expected to conduct, initiate, and undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.

As a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner you will support EMHPs/CWPs under your supervision in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.

Engage in and provide robust case management and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual post holder within the role, and working safely within that scope.

To lead on the contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.

To co-ordinate and deliver a range of psycho education and training to children/ young people parents/carers and school staff based on evidence based knowledge.