This is an exciting time of growth and change within Berkshire Healthcare as our C hild and A dolescent M ental H ealth S ervice is currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and partners to deliver the Governments aspirations to increase access to prevention and early mental health support for children and young people.
To support the development of our Getting Help Team in Berkshire West , we are looking to recruit three qualified Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner s, one each in the following localites ; West Berkshire, Reading and Wokingham . You must have a Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) qualification to apply for this role.
T he Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across and community settings and healthcare sectors in England and to support a whole community approach to emotional health and wellbeing .
Please only apply for you r preferred locality.
To be trained and confident in the use of CYP MH principles, evidence - based interventions and routine outcome measures.
To care co-ordinate and manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties .
To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signpost ing using an outcome-based triage model
To provide training to school staff, other professionals parents and carers in conjunction with colleagues.
Supporting the promotion of whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.
To train and mentor students and less experienced members of the team.
To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
Caring for and about you is our top priority
Committed to providing good quality, safe services
Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
Flexible working options to support work-life balance
27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
Generous NHS pension scheme
Excellent learning and career development opportunities
‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
Free parking across Trust sites
The “must haves” for this role:
be friendly, self-motivated, and self-organising,
be confident in working in a multiagency setting, working collaboratively with colleagues in schools and across the wider system,
enjoy regular collaboration with your peers and the senior colleagues to whom you report,
as a person, will always be looking for new or better ways to deliver care and be keen to learn,
and most of all will have a calm, friendly and compassionate outlook and have a keen interest in working in a school setting .
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We welcome any questions you may have , p lease don’t hesitate to contact: R hona Edwards on
[email protected] who’d be delighted to help.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required .
