Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner
· Are you excited to help improve children’s emotional wellbeing?
· Are you keen to join a well-established and successful Mental Health Support Team with a great team culture and support?
We have the perfect job for you.
We are excited to recruit a qualified Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner to play a vital role within the Tees Valley Getting Help Service. This partnership service supports children and young people aged 5–18 (up to 25 for those with SEND/EHCP) who are experiencing emerging mental health concerns.
You will deliver evidence-based interventions in schools and community settings, supporting young people to manage mild to moderate mental health challenges. The role is underpinned by the i-THRIVE framework, ensuring support is responsive and tailored to individual needs.
The service is delivered by Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) alongside key partners: Alliance Psychological Services, The Link CIC, Teesside Mind, Changing Futures North East, and The Junction Foundation. By working together as one integrated service, we make it easier for children, young people, families, and professionals to access advice, early support, and appropriate help when needed.
Building on existing provision, the service focuses on early intervention, offering evidence-based treatment, practical support, advice and signposting to help address difficulties at the earliest opportunity for young people.
The post holder will primarily deliver interventions across Stockton and Hartlepool, with flexibility required to meet service needs across the wider Tees area including Darlington.
About Changing Futures North East
Changing Futures North East is a vibrant and fast-growing Charity that is in the privileged position to be able to trial new approaches to working with children and families to catalyse their own, sustainable change. Over the past 25 years, we have grown from an estate-based youth club to a provider of children and families work across Tees Valley, particularly specialising in work that supports and is enabled through healthy relationships.
As a Children’s Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, you will join a team of 30 or so staff where you will benefit from working with colleagues from your discipline, as well as people from a variety of other disciplines. The mix of professional backgrounds and training within the agency helps aid everyone’s learning and practice.
Changing Futures North East has particular strengths and experience in:
· Pioneering delivery of emotional wellbeing and mental health services – pioneering mentalisation-based therapy for couples in Tees Valley, and providing EMHP’s, CWP and Counsellors into the children’s emotional wellbeing system through two partnerships, as well as delivering adverse childhood experiences programmes for parents and children separately.
· Supporting care experienced young people – through a fostering service (underpinned by a bespoke trauma informed therapeutic training programme, changing futures through fostering) and through mentoring and befriending support
· Reducing parental conflict services –delivering mediation and groupwork programmes, and supporting statutory agencies across England to embed a reducing parental conflict offer within their systems
Initial CV acceptable alongside single page application form.
You can complete the single page form on jot forms at this link: https://form.jotform.com/233374130372348 . You can upload your CV on the link too.
Pay: £31,049.00-£33,487.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
