Job Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity to join HCRG Care Group as a trainee Children and Young People’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CYWP).
We are currently recruiting to new training posts to start the Postgraduate/Graduate Diploma in Evidence Based Interventions to commence January 2023. The posts are part of the Children and Young People’s IAPT initiative. We are actively seeking to promote the diversity of the workforce.
Applicants should have experience of working with children and young people and the aptitude to undertake a postgraduate/graduate study programme. For the postgraduate level course applicants are required to have a degree or be able to demonstrate academic equivalence. For the graduate level course, applicants must be able to demonstrate they can study at this level (level 6).
CYWP trainees provide low intensity interventions for anxiety, depression and conduct problems including guided self-help in community settings. The training is provided by Greater Manchester Mental Health Foundation Trust in partnership with the University of Manchester and trainees will attend for study approximately two days a week, with the remaining three being service based. Trainee CYWPs are NHS pay band 4 or equivalent.
Interviews will take place on the 29th November 2022.
Main Responsibility
- 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. This may include guided self-help. This work may be face-to-face, by telephone or via other media.
- Assess and deliver, under supervision outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
Package Description
As a Trainee Wellbeing Practitioner: Children & Young People, you’ll be part of our valued team in Lancashire. We have 2 posts in our Central Locality (Preston), 1 post in our East locality (Burnley).
You will feel valued as a Trainee Wellbeing Practitioner: Children & Young People within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 4 salary during training (12 months) rising to Band 5 upon successful completion of the course with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee 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.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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