Children and Young People's Well Being - London, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Tower Hamlets is a rapidly growing, vibrant inner-city borough with a young ethnically diverse population who experience some of the highest levels of deprivation in the country.

Poplar and Limehouse Ward report over 58% of children living in poverty.

There is a high prevalence of mental health difficulties amongst young people and a high proportion of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

In December 2018 Tower Hamlets was named a trailblazer site to pilot the Green Paper Transforming Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Provision initiatives to improve mental health support in school settings, including the establishment of Mental Health Support Teams (MHST).

The Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service is expanding and seeking to recruitEducation Wellbeing Practitioners (EMHP) or Children and Young People's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP).

The post holders will work within the Schools Mental Health Support Team, (situated within CAMHS) delivering, under supervision, high quality, brief outcome focused evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties within primary and secondary school settings.

1 post full time permanent

The post holder will work as part of the Schools Mental Health Support Team, embedded within our CAMHS multi-disciplinary team delivering, under supervision, high-quality; outcome-informed, focused, evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing, mild to moderate anxiety, low mood and behavioural difficulties.

The post involves provision of low-intensity evidence-based interventions (one to one, group and workshops) to children, young people and their parents.

Practitioners will develop an active presence within school settings. Alongside members of the Senior MHST will contribute to the development of the Whole School Approach within trailblazer schools.

The post holder will work in collaboration with other members of the MHST and where appropriate with members of the wider multidisciplinary team and signpost families to appropriate support.

Finally, to contribute where appropriate, to service development and consultation to the wider MHST professional networks.

Please see JD (Job Description) and PS (Personal Specification) for full details of role requirements.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve

Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations