Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
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Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
This is an exciting 1-year secondment/fixed term opportunity for an Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join a flexible and friendly team working with children and young people in care to fulfil the Trust's responsibility to improve the outcomes for Children in Care and Care Leavers.
About the Role
The job will involve supporting the emotional needs of the children, liaising closely with Social Workers, CAMHS, and the CIC Health team.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver brief evidence-based interventions for the CIC cohort after a referral has been made into the service.
- Provide intervention at the Getting Help stage of the Thrive model.
- Provide a high-quality person-centred approach to care delivery which always considers people’s safety, privacy, and dignity.
- Provide specialist care and interventions, assessments, and managing patients on a caseload, as part of the wider multi-disciplinary care team.
- Provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of service users.
- Devise specialist programmes of care for other professionals to deliver and ensure they are delivered appropriately.
- Plan, implement, and review health improvement programmes in a range of settings.
- Provide supervision, mentorship, training, and support to other members of the team.
Requirements
- Experienced practitioner from either healthcare or social care.
- Specialist interest in Children in Care and attachment and trauma.
- Skills to work with children who have highly complex needs.
- Flexible in their approach.
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Position Details
- This is a temporary role of 37.5 hours a week, primarily based in BCP area.
- You will be supported by the Service Lead, Clinical Lead/Psychologist, Named Nurse for Children in Care, and Specialist CAMHS CAP team with opportunities for supervision, training, and development.
- Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
- Applications from candidates that require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.
- This is a fixed term role and for those with current NHS service, the role will be offered on a secondment basis only. Please obtain permission to be released on a secondment before submitting an application.
About Dorset HealthCare
At Dorset HealthCare we’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We’re a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities, and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.
- We do things differently here – it’s one of the reasons the CQC rated us ‘outstanding’ in 2019.
- 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services.
- 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference.
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Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.
Working with us you’ll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don’t know. And you’ll be working towards our vision to create healthier lives, empowered citizens, and thriving communities.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jenna Pitt
- Job title: Service Manager for CIC and CEYP Health team
- Email address: j.pitt@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07760167673
Clinical Lead/Psychologist Claire Duffy can be contacted on 07823849568 or claire.duffy1@nhs.net.
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