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Senior Wellbeing Practitioner | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Greenwich MHST seeks to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who are passionate about mental health support in schools, with a demonstrable track record of MHST clinical experience.

The post holder will contribute further to the development of early intervention and prevention service in Greenwich CAMHS. The post represents a development opportunity for a qualified practitioner, who is committed to the principles of CYP-PT to further their career into a Senior practice role. In addition to managing their own caseload, the post holder will be expected to provide supervision to CWPs or EMHPs.

The post-holder will work with young people from diverse backgrounds and should be committed to diversity and ensuring access to services for all.

To provide an evidenced based service for children and young people as part of early identification and intervention for children and young people with emotional and mental health needs

To provide advice, support and knowledge of appropriate resources for the emotional wellbeing of children and their families

To take responsibility for liaising with Practice Leads within the team and other Practitioners, to support effective clinical governance, risk and safety protocols and best practice principles to support continuous improvement and young person-centred care

To support development and delivery of psychoeducational workshops, webinars and groups for young people, parents/carers and school staff

To work across agencies to develop a co-ordinated response to children and young people's mental health needs

Encourage user-involvement and co-production in furthering best practices and striving for quality assurance in data returns for qualitative and quantitative service evaluations to inform and improve further service development

To work alongside others to demonstrate knowledge and skills to plan and critically evaluate the implementation of the early intervention role to meet the mental health needs of children and young people

To provide supervision to CWPs or EMHPs (from second year of SWP programme).

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

SWPTRAINEE ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

This is a training role within the CYP-PT programme. The SWP training is for qualified CWPs and EMHPs who have undertaken the respective Graduate or Postgraduate Certificate/ Diploma. The programme aims to extend the clinical skillset of CWPs and EMHPs by providing specialist training in a broader range of presentations as well as supervisor training for low-intensity interventions. SWPs will be responsible for:

• Fulfilling the course requirement (see course brochure)
• Working within the governance frameworks of the organisation, including, but not limited to: Clinical Governance, Confidentiality, Data Protection, Health and Safety, and use of IT
• Informing their supervisor/line manager and university of any university absence
• Being present in their site on non-university days and use site leave allowances as agreed with their site.

To provide supervision to CWPs or EMHPs (from second year of SWP programme).

£47,951 - £56,863 per annum incl. of HCAs (inner)

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust