Job Description:
Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be!
We have developed an innovative, integrated model of childrens community
services and now looking to appoint enthusiastic individuals to join our
friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.
As a large community service, you will be joining a strong,
enthusiastic and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your
phone a friend network and your inspiring colleagues. This provides a real
sense of professional collaboration at work, that will be an asset to your
daily work, your career development and your support network.
We are
excited to be advertising for 2 WTE Children Wellbeing Practitioners, on a permanent basis,to support children and young
people across Devon. You will be based in either our North Devon team or South Devon & Torbay teams.
The successful post-holder will deliver, under
supervision, high-quality, outcome-informed, focused, evidence-based
interventions for children and young people experiencing, mild to moderate anxiety, low
mood and behavioural difficulties.
You will have an active caseload of children and adolescents and will deliver evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions,
employing the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme.
Main duties of the job
You will have already completed and passed the Children
Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) Training and have extensive experience working
with children and young people.
Interacting
with patients and the public you will be confident in giving non-clinical
information and advice that improves their experience. Dealing with sensitive
information daily, you will understand the importance of data security.
About us
Children and Family Health Devon
(CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve
health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.
CFHD provides integrated care and
treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we
deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our
services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our
service users and communities.
CFHD works closely with our local
universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we
support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our
own staff to undertake post graduate training.
Our integrated care and treatment
has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and
their families/carers.
Our children
and young people say
We
would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be
understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us
feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and
experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way.
When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that
is informal and without pressure.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the full
Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will
provide further information on this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CYP IAPT accredited Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner qualification or equivalent (e.g., PG Cert in Low Intensity Psychological Interventions for C/YP) OR IAPT accredited adult Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) qualification Both qualifications at degree/post graduate certificate level or equivalent.
- Training in an evidence-based therapeutic approach.
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant CPD.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Essential
- Knowledge of mental health presentations and evidence based clinical interventions.
- Understanding of relevant legislation pertaining to childrens mental health.
- Understanding of the use in practice of assessment tools, Routine outcome Measures and goal-based care.
- Knowledge of child development.
- Ability to drive across Devon.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of engaging/ working with children, young people, families and carers with mental health needs and undertaking specialist mental health assessments in the community, including risk assessments
- Experience of providing evidence-based therapeutic interventions for children and young people with mental health problems.
- Experience of collaborative working in community settings, with professionals across a range of agencies in health, social care and education.
- Experience that evidences an ability to tend to diversity and work in a way that promotes anti-discriminatory practice.
- Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring the safety of young people in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
- Experience of working clinically with the ability to take on responsibility, make decisions and seek support as needed.
- Experience of using outcome measures collaboratively with children and young people to inform and improve 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.
Employer details
Employer name
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Integrated Childrens Services
Fishleigh Road
Roundswell Business Park
Barnstaple
Devon
EX31 3UD
Employer's website
https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Contact information:
CFHD Service Lead for MHST
Holly Billington
holly.billington1@nhs.net