Children and Young People’s Wellbeing Practitioner

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B5 CYWP PCN ARRS

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

Mental health is as important to Childrens and Young People safety and wellbeing as their physical health. It can impact on all aspects of their life, including their educational attainment, relationships, and physical wellbeing. Across the Primary Care Network, we are finding more children are presenting to the Practices who are struggling with their mental health and wellbeing, and therefore we are building a unique team of people with a range of skills to provide a children and Young People’s mental health and wellbeing service across Knowsley’s community.

You will work alongside a Children’s Care Co-Ordinator, a Senior Nurse Mental Health Practitioner, a Health and Wellbeing Coach and a Social Prescribing Link Worker. The role requires collaborative working within the Primary Care Network clinical teams and mental health services to shape, design and deliver an excellent holistic service for our children and young people.

The successful Children and Young People Wellbeing Practitioner will provide Mental Health Assessment, inclusive of Risk assessment and Safety planning, person centred Care planning and low intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy informed interventions to the Children and Young people referred to the service.

Please ensure you have the essential qualifications before applying for this post. The success candidate will be required to have completed children and young people Wellbeing Practitioner qualification.

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 postholder will be expected to provide assessment and low intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) interventions to children and young people and their families / carers referred into the service.

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.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the Northwest, 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.

1. To hold a caseload of assessments, treatment upon a conceptual framework and employing research-based evidence.
2. To provide high volume low intensity psychological 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.
3. Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework.
4. 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.
5. To exercise responsibility within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.
6. To deliver co-ordinated care, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained. Involve the views of children, their families, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care.
7. To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in co-operation with the child young person and carers.
8. To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of work.
9. 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.
10. Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and Trust safeguarding policies.
11. Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
12. To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.
13. Adhere to agreed activity expectations relating to the overall number of clients contacts offered, throughput and outcomes to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible, efficient and effective.
14. To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trust’s service user participation agenda.