Children and Young People Wellbeing Practitioner

Job summary

This new position is an exciting innovative post for a Children and Young People's Well-Being Practitioner (CYWP), to work within Knowsley CYPMHS to support children and young people who are experiencing mental health difficulties.

As a Children & Young People Wellbeing Practitioner (CYPWP), the post holder will provide high standards of evidence based client centred care to children and young people with mental health [CYPMH] problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.

The role requires collaborative working within clinical teams and mental health services to shape, design and deliver an excellent holistic service for our children and young people.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide brief intervention to the CYP of Knowsley CYPMHS.

As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers.

The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE. These principles will recognise the need to:

Promote safe practicesValue the aims of service usersWork in partnership and offer meaningful choiceBe optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful changeValue social inclusion

Main duties of the job

The working hours will be 9am-5pm Monday-Friday.

You'll be given opportunities to develop your career from day one, so if you have ambition, commitment, and share our aim to deliver perfect care, with regular formal CPD opportunities to further develop your potential.

Young people are our future - make a difference to a young person's life!

Spread your wings and apply now.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Job responsibilities

To hold a caseload of assessments, treatment upon a conceptual framework and employing research based evidence.

To provide direct therapeutic interventions in line with the grading of the post, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families referred into the service.

Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework

To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.

To participate directly in the teams duty rotas in line with the grading of the post.

To exercise responsibility within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients

To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence based practice in cooperation with the child young person and carers

To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of work.

To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families.

To have an effective knowledge base of other modalities so as to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.

Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.

Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Childrens Board and the Trust safeguarding policies

Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.

To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.

To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trusts service user participation agenda.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised Children and Young People Wellbeing Practitioner (CYPWP) qualification

Desirable

• Educated to degree standard
• Evidence of further study/ qualification in the field of children and young people's mental health

Experience

Essential

• Experience of mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
• Evidence of competent delivery of low intensity CBT for common mental health disorders in children and young people
• Skilled in the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, clinical sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Experience of working with a variety of patient groups including a degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse

Desirable

• Experience of delivering teaching, training
• Experience in consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups

Knowledge

Essential

• Able to provide evidence of competently managing own caseload
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of anxiety and depression in children & young people
• Level of knowledge of the mental health needs of children and adolescents
• Thorough understanding of theoretical basis of low intensity CBT
• Able to describe rationale and content of range of low intensity interventions
• Broad knowledge of legal frameworks in relation to children and young people

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
• Level of knowledge and/or training in other psychological therapies
• Knowledge and skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups
• Knowledge of research design and methodology consistent with practice to at least degree level or equivalent

Skills

Essential

• Must demonstrate ability to be self reflective and to organise own supervision appropriately
• Ability to work within a culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including specialist skills for working in settings outside the clinic
• Ability to take clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment, both as a care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary team
• Interpersonal skills to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in order to convey clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages and to a wide range of lay and professional persons, within and outside of the NHS Able to demonstrate understanding of ways to assess risk to self and others within the context of mental health assessment

Desirable

• Skills in Information technology and using word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentation software
• Ability to demonstrate skills in multi-disciplinary work