Job Introduction
The post holder will attend all university based taught and self-study days required by the education provider, as specified within the agreed national curriculum and work in the service for the remaining days of the week using their newly developed skills.
The PgDip CWP training programme will take place over 12 months and will include:
• The programme takes a blended learning approach, so some of this teaching is online and some face to face in small groups, including workshops and seminars. There are approximately 32-35 teaching days through the year, approximately three days a week in the first term near the beginning of your employment, reducing to approximately one day per week which will include some self-directed study time, and then increasingly spread out for the remainder of the year. The teaching will support you in preparing for: o Assessment with assignments including a small group problem-based learning task with reflective analysis, 1 case report, and 2 videotapes with reflective analyses. • Dependent on your eligibility, you will be entitled to all the supports, facilities and benefits of being a student enrolled at UCL. You will, therefore, be expected to: • Attend at the University for ALL training sessions on specified dates supplied at the commencement of your employment. • Prepare and submit ALL assignments as part of the assessment process by the designated deadlines. As part of your job application, you are asked to apply to UCL for a place on the training programme. If you have any questions about the programme or the application process, please in the first instance email the course team at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families: cwp.admin@annafreud.org
Main Responsibility
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Assess and deliver, under supervision outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- Working in partnership, support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
- Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help. This work may be face-to-face, by telephone or via other media.
- Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training element of the post including practical, academic and practice based assessments.
- As well as attendance at the University for training, fulfil private study requirements to enhance learning and prepare assignments for examination.
- Apply learning from the training programme to practice.
- Prepare and present case load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the trainee, supervisor and service are delivered.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have a evidence of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
We will be interviewing for this role on Monday 21st November so please state on your application if you are unable to attend.
You will need a Driving license and use of vehicle for work purposes
For more information please contact Rebecca Scott-williams at rebecca.scott-williams@hcrgcaregroup.com
Package Description
As a Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner Trainee you’ll be part of our valued team in Essex
You will feel valued as a Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner Trainee within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £26,282 salary with group pension (AFC terms and conditions)
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
