Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner

You will deliver person centred outcome focused evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties to support them to improve their emotional health and build resilience. This will include individual and group work.

You will provide guided self-help, 1-1 interventions to group sessions and facilitating peer support.

The role involves delivering therapeutic interventions to children and young people, working independently and co-facilitating online groups alongside colleagues. You will undertake professional initial assessments and provide both ongoing and one-off interventions, while also developing alternatives to one-to-one therapy, such as group work and peer support initiatives. The successful candidate will maintain confidential, high-quality case notes and records in a timely manner using specified case management systems, and will build strong links with other agencies to support signposting and onward referrals.

Responsibilities include proactively managing risk, responding to safeguarding and child protection concerns, and ensuring that all communication with children and young people is appropriate, empowering, and respectful. The role also requires promoting a positive and mutually respectful team culture while fostering engagement and trust with young people.

ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. As an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities and stakeholders.

This post will work under the line management of the Head of Service and Service Lead. The role will be varied, challenging, and rewarding as you will work as part of a diverse clinical team pro-actively developing the service through co-production, delivery, and ongoing innovation.

Main Tasks:

To deliver therapeutic interventions to children and young people, working independently.

To co-facilitate online groups alongside colleagues within the team.

To undertake professional initial assessments of young people.

To provide ongoing and one-off interventions to young people.

To develop alternatives to one-to-one therapeutic work i.e., group work.

To facilitate peer support interventions with and for children and young people.

To maintain confidential, high quality case notes and records in a timely manner ensuring that they are stored securely using the specified case management systems.

To develop links to other agencies and services and have a good understanding of local services for signposting and onward referrals.

To positively manage risk and recognise and pro-actively respond to child protection and safeguarding issues.

Communication

Be able to communicate and engage with children and young people appropriate to individual needs.

Ensure young people feel listened to, feel in control and are respected.

Promote a mutually respectful working environment, nurturing a positive team culture.

Experience of working with Children and Young People who have experienced challenges with their wellbeing.

Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

Experienced in working with children and young people and experienced in engaging peers, professionals, and family members/carers.

Experienced in providing pastoral care to Children and Young People.

Positive and proactive to achieve the highest standards and outcomes in engagement with children, young people, their parent/carers, and professionals

Adept in communication and confident communicating with CYP (Children and Young Peoples), their parents/carers and health professionals

Open, respectful, committed to equality and inclusiveness and motivated by new ideas and perspectives

A team player

Standard Information

Information Governance

Employees of ABL Health must comply with the provisions of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The postholder must not; either during the course of their employment, or following termination of their employment, disclose any information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation.

The postholder will be required, when and where appropriate to the role, to comply with the processing of requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

The postholder must comply with ABLs policies that protect the information assets of the organisation from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction, inappropriate access or use. The postholder will be responsible for maintaining the clinical and/or corporate records that fall within the remit of this role to the standards in ABLs records management policies, and data quality processes and standards.

Health & Safety

Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 the postholder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This…