Qualified Children's Wellbeing Practitioner - CWP

• Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• To ensure delivery of appropriate services to children and their families, according to their assessed needs. This will include direct interventions based on a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions. To provide individual and group interventions with young people their families and communities. Making decisions and managing risk appropriately regarding effective care planning and pathways.
• Use skills required in order to enable children and young people, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and co-produce their own agreed plan of care.
• To offer consultation and training and joint working regarding childrens and young peoples emotional and mental health needs. Enhancing skills and knowledge within the partner agencies and across the community. To maintain professional case records, including inputting onto the Departments information systems and accessing information from relevant registers. Producing reports to a high standard.

• To contribute to the creation and maintenance of good working relationships at all levels with colleagues in partner agencies, local community groups and other City Council Departments, representing the team at inter-agency meetings as appropriate.
• To work with effectively with Community (previously Specialist) CAMHS in line with clinical governance and departmental policies. Act as an effective liaison ensuring clear communication between and within childrens services.
• To work flexibly as a team member in a multi agency team to develop the quality of our services, to improve the mental health and emotional wellbeing of the children and young people in the locality. Working within the CAPA model and being committed to develop and expand skills and therapeutic knowledge to work with a wide range of mental health needs.
• Accountability.
• To manage own workload effectively, maintaining appropriate records and preparing and submitting reports as required.
• To participate in individual supervision with their mental health specialist and their line manager, as well as undertaking appropriate training and developmental opportunities and attending team meetings as required.
• To demonstrate commitment and sensitivity to ensuring equality of opportunity in service delivery.
• To provide the highest standards of safeguarding to children young people/vulnerable adults who access our services, adhering to NCC's safeguarding polices and procedures.
• Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to children and young people accessing support.
• Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
• Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in collaboration with parents, children, young people, relevant professionals and the wider community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services.

• Ensure the maintenance of standards of own professional practice according to the post holder's employer. Ensure appropriate adherence to any new recommendations or guidelines set by the relevant departments
• Ensure that confidentiality is protected.
• Ensure that any risks or issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the post holder comes into contact with during their professional duties are communicated and shared with appropriate parties in order to maintain individual safety and the public interest.
• Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.
• Attend relevant educational opportunities in line with identified professional objectives

Essential

• Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children and families.
• Ability to conduct mental health assessments and screenings of children and young people
• Ability to conduct group parenting and group young person programmes
• Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately and to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage
• Ability to maintain records in a timely manner.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload.
• Strong understanding of how to work with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
• Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health.

Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others in educational and health settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
• Experience of delivering specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. Guided Self Help, CBT, parent work)
• Experience of assessing children and young people who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
• Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
• Experience of liaising and working effectively with the wider network around the child including educational, social care, family and health.
• Experience of adapting resources to be able to deliver online/ via phone/ Google classroom etc.
• Experience of working with cultural diverse populations and adapting services to improve access

Essential

• Undergraduate degree in Psychology or related subject
• Successful completion of Certificate in Childrens Wellbeing Practice (CWP), with post qualification experience as a CWP