Permanent position with a provisional funding end date of March 2026
Salary: £35,100 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
The Children’s Society has a vacancy for a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner within our Rise Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in Newcastle & Gateshead. The Rise service, offers evidence-based individual and group interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, as well as supporting settings to develop their whole school/college approach to mental health.
Senior Wellbeing Practitioners (SWP) are a new role developed by NHSE as part of CYP-IAPT workforce development, and a new addition to our Rise service.
We are seeking an EMHP-trained Senior Wellbeing Practitioner with:
1. 3+ years post-qualification experience as an Education Mental Health Practitioner.
2. Experience in delivering clinical caseload and clinical skills supervision to low-intensity practitioners (trainee and qualified EMHP & CWP).
3. Skills in managing various duties associated with the role, including line management responsibilities, delivering supervision, and holding a small caseload.
4. Ability to support the management team and clinical lead with strategic service development.
5. BABCP/BPS recognised supervision qualification relevant to the low-intensity workforce. Though this is not essential.
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