Wellbeing Practitioner - East Hampshire, United Kingdom - Havant and East Hants Mind

Havant and East Hants Mind

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East Hampshire, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Job Title:
CYP Wellbeing Practitioner (Primary Care Network)

Hours: 35 hours per week (part time 18.5 hours considered)

Employer:
Havant and East Hants Mind

Salary:
£24,500 FTE

Location:
East Hants

Reports to:
CYP Team Manager

Contract:1 year fixed term

Job Location:
East Hampshire Primary Care Network (GP Surgeries) and homeworking if required to do so. (Alton, Bordon areas)

Job summary:

This role is a collaborative but independent position working for and representing Havant and East Hants Mind, within a primary care network supporting children and young people aged 11-17 years who are registered at the GP practices within the specified PCN.

Havant and East Hants Mind supports children and young people to build resilience and to achieve and maintain positive mental health and wellbeing.

This ranges from one-to-one support and group work, to outreach into the community and community engagement to provide a range of interventions and activities to support children and young people to manage their own mental health needs.

This is an exciting project supporting young people's mental health in East Hampshire._

For this particular post we require a CYP Wellbeing Practitioner with experience working within mental health to support our young people on a 1:1 and small group basis (in East Hampshire).

Young people will be signposted through their local GP surgeries.

Duties and responsibilities:

To provide support to individual service users aged 1117, providing onetoone sessions using appropriate theories, methods and skills in order to promote individual service users' ability to better manage their problems and difficulties.
To provide face to face and or virtual/telephone advice and information related to mental health needs and local services which can offer support to the public including young people with mental health needs and their parents/carers.
To support young people to identify their needs and goals and facilitate the development of wellbeing plans and crisis/safety plans with service users.
To equip young people with skills and techniques to deescalate difficult emotion and put coping strategies in place.
Work in partnership with social prescribers and all relevant PCN staff to provide the service user with a robust mental health support service and personcentred approach.
Work with other agencies and the service user to achieve wellbeing focussed goals; drawing on individual strengths and using a range of internal and external resources.
To develop, facilitate and review group work where needed for young people on a range of topics and use a range of wellbeing tools alongside service users to encourage proactive and positive mental wellbeing.
To develop, facilitate and review youth activities such as art & craft and games.
To liaise with service users, carers, family and relevant professionals, ensuring they have full information about the project's purpose, activities and outcomes.
Assist and complete administrative tasks relating to the role including accurate recording and providing key information for monthly and quarterly progress reports.
To be aware of responsibilities and take appropriate action as per Havant and East Hants Mind's policies and procedures around safeguarding adults and children.
To undertake any other tasks and duties as required as requested by the Contract Manager/ Senior and to meet the requirements of the service
To be aware of Health & Safety regulations, particularly related to work surroundings.

About Havant and East Hants Mind & our way of working

The Children and young people team work closely with each other to share knowledge and ideas to get the best outcomes for service users and applicants should be able to work well in the team environment as well as autonomously.

Skills and personal characteristics:

Essential

Minimum 2 years' experience of working with vulnerable young people with diverse needs
1 years' experience of working within a mental health setting and hold an understanding of mental health illness, mental health crisis and recovery
To be able to work using own initiative and within a team
Understanding and appreciation of personal and professional boundaries
Ability to understand and assess risk
Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office
Good communication skills that are adaptable for our varied service user group
Excellent listening skills
Good time management and organisational skills
Good level of numeracy & literacy
Applicants must be able to take clear notes, have a methodical and ordered working style and be able to maintain up to date and accurate records
Ability to embrace change and adapt to changes in service provision, new projects & duties
Empathy and compassion
Personal transport for business purposes is essential

Desirable