Education Wellbeing Practitioner and Young People's - London, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

The Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service is expanding and seeking to recruit2Education 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.

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 Green Paper ambitions fit with Tower Hamlets existing strategic direction for Children and Young Peoples Mental Health, to build capacity for early intervention and prevention across local partnerships.

Main

Responsibilities:

Assess and deliver, under supervision outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties in line with the CWP/EMHP intervention models.
Working in partnership, support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
Working in partnership with members of the Mental Health Support Team, deliver a range of workshop, group and whole school interventions within education settings to children, young people, parents and members of the wider school community.

Applicants should be aware that they must have completed and passed the Children's Wellbeing Practitioner or Education Mental Health Practitioner training.

Local knowledge of Tower Hamlets and its diverse range of cultures and ethnic groups is desirable.

The East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) provides a wide range of community and inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, older adults and forensic services to the City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton.

In Tower Hamlets the Trust provides high standard mental health services for children and young people based on strong partnerships with the Borough's education and social care services, community health services and voluntary/third sector agencies.

Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children, young people and parents experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

Working in partnership, support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families

Work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.

Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about intervention.

Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.

Accept referrals within agreed national and local protocols. This may include referrals from schools, CAMHS triage, and wider community services.

Undertake assessment of risk to self and others, where appropriate.

Adhere to the service referral protocols and signpost unsuitable referrals to the relevant service as necessary.

Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, largely guided self help in approach. This work may be face-to-face, by telephone or via other media.

Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered, and sessions carried out per week in order to improve timely access and minimise waiting times.

Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or CYP in treatment, where appropriate.

Assess and integrate issues relating to transitions, education and training/employment into the overall therapeutic process.

Work within a collaborative approach involving a range of relevant others when indicated.

Work in collaboration with children, young people and communities to enhance and widen access.

To provide a service that is equitable and non-discriminatory in terms of age, gender, ethnicity and disability.

Make appropriate referrals to other service providers in the statutory and voluntary sectors and redirect patients to other sources of appropriate support within the local community as required.

Develop a 'local knowledge' of t