Job Title:
Health and Wellbeing Practitioner – Children and Young People Services
Reports to:
Senior Health & Wellbeing Practitioner
Location:
Northamptonshire
Working Pattern:
Monday-Friday, but maybe subject to non-confirmative working patterns to ensure equal opportunities for staff members.
Homes2Inspire are one of the UK's top providers of Children's homes and currently care for over 150 children in 57 homes and 2 two semi -independent leaving care facilities across Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Staffordshire and Worcestershire. We are proud to be a part of Shaw Trust Group, a charity helping to transform the lives of young people and adults across the UK.
Homes2Inspire are looking for a compassionate, reflective and motivated Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our Children and Young People Services team. In this role, you will provide debriefs after incidents, facilitate reflective practice (1:1 and group), offer wellbeing check-ins, and deliver training on proactive strategies to maintain resilience and confidence.
As a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner for Homes2Inspire, you will play a key part in promoting a supportive and open culture, helping colleagues to manage the emotional impact of their roles, and ensure they feel empowered, confident and well-equipped to provide the highest quality care and support to children and young people and create a positive, supportive workplace culture.
About You
* Allied health background or hold an equivalent qualification as recognised by an appropriate awarding professional body e.g. Psychotherapist registered with BACP, CBT Therapist registered with BACBCP, Mental Health Nurse registered with NMC.
* Experienced in delivering wellbeing, reflective practice, or staff support within health, social care, education or community settings.
* Knowledgeable about the challenges faced by professionals working with children and young people.
* Skilled in facilitating reflective practice, group sessions and training.
* Approachable, empathetic and able to build trust quickly.
* Confident working both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
* Flexible in approach to meet the needs of colleagues across varied settings.
At Homes2Inspire, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion.
Homes2Inspire is dedicated to supporting care leavers by offering guaranteed job interviews if you meet the minimum requirements for the role. If you want to benefit from this scheme, please inform us as part of your application that you have lived in care experience.
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Homes2Inspire reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.