Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS Recharges Services
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-LS-CAMHS-586
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Glenthorne Road
- Town
- H&F
- Salary
- £35,964 - £43,780 pa plus 20% HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Children & Wellbeing Practitioner
Band 5
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
The Community CAMHS Team is part of a thriving CAMHS service in Hammersmith & Fulham CAMHs which also includes a Child and Family Team, a Community Adolescent Team and a Neurodevelopmental Team within West London Mental Health Trust.
We are now recruiting for the post of Senior Wellbeing Practitioner that is Accredited or working towards Accreditation with BABCP. We are also open to consider experienced Senior Wellbeing Practitioner that is planning to start their accreditation application.
This post sits within the multi-disciplinary CAMH service which is responsible for the delivery of Tier 2 Community CAMHS service to children and young people living in the Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham aged 0-18 years.
We are looking for a dynamic band 5 CWP to join our friendly team and support the delivery of low intensity interventions in the Community CAMHS services for children young people and within Hammersmith and Fulham Borough.
Hammersmith and Fulham CCAMHS has a very well established and highly valued team of CWPs within it. You will be working under the supervision of a CWP supervisor and will play a key role in supporting band 4 Trainee CWPs.
Main duties of the job
In addition to holding your own Guided Self-Help caseload, you will also work alongside Psychologists, Family Therapists, and Admin staff as part of a multidisciplinary team where there will be opportunities to extend your clinical skills through joint working. You will also work with other specialist teams within in Hammersmith and Fulham CAMHs in addition to other teams within the borough.
You will also have the opportunity to provide consultation/training to different professional groups.
The have regular team, service meetings and reflective groups that will support you in your practice as well as support your development and give a good understanding of how CAMHS services work.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Children and Young People’s Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
- Qualification from accredited training provider
Desirable criteria
- Psychology or other health /social care/youth related undergraduate degree
- Other relevant postgraduate degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties
- Demonstrates an understanding of common mental health problems experienced by children and young people
- Understands why it is essential to use evidence-based interventions when possible
- Understands why collecting feedback from children, young people and parents is important
- Experience of MDT working Significant practice experience in relevant first profession.
- Experience of working with children and adolescents in a mental health or equivalent settings.
- Experience of multi-agency work.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children with neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g. ASC, ADHD, Mild- moderate LD)
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place to demonstrating outcomes
- Able to identify common mental health problems in children and young people
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Merve Ozdas
- Job title
- CWP Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Name: Merve Ozdas
E-mail- [email protected]
Telephone Number- 07923437711
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