Job summary
- Main area
- MH Support Team - Wokingham 1
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CFS764-A
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wokingham Hospital, 41 Barkham Road, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG41 2RE
- Town
- Wokingham
- Salary
- £33,677 - £40,996 per annum (incl. of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP)
Band 5
Job overview
This is an exciting time of growth and change within Berkshire Healthcare as our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service is currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and partners to deliver the Governments aspirations to increase access to prevention and early mental health support for children and young people.
To support the development of our Getting Help Team in Berkshire West, we are looking to recruit three qualified Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners, one each in the following localites; West Berkshire, Reading and Wokingham. You must have a Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) qualification to apply for this role.
The Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across and community settings and healthcare sectors in England and to support a whole community approach to emotional health and wellbeing.
Please only apply for your preferred locality.
Main duties of the job
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To be trained and confident in the use of CYPMH principles, evidence-based interventions and routine outcome measures.
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To care co-ordinate and manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties.
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To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
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To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposting using an outcome-based triage model.
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To provide training to school staff, other professionals parents and carers in conjunction with colleagues.
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Supporting the promotion of whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.
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To train and mentor students and less experienced members of the team.
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To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
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be friendly, self-motivated, and self-organising,
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be confident in working in a multiagency setting, working collaboratively with colleagues in schools and across the wider system,
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enjoy regular collaboration with your peers and the senior colleagues to whom you report,
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as a person, will always be looking for new or better ways to deliver care and be keen to learn,
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and most of all will have a calm, friendly and compassionate outlook and have a keen interest in working in a school setting.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We welcome any questions you may have, please don’t hesitate to contact: Rhona Edwards on [email protected] who’d be delighted to help.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Pre January 2023: successful completion of a Health Education England Quality Assured CWP training programme OR Post January 2023: successful completion of a BPS accredited CWP training programme.
- Registration as a CWP on the British Psychological Society (BPS) Wider Psychological Workforce Register OR CWP registration with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
Desirable criteria
- Relevant bachelor’s degree (e.g., psychology, mental health, sociology, education etc.) graded at 2:2 or above
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Commitment to ongoing training and development
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuous professional development in child and adolescent mental health of relevance to the post
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a Trainee/ qualified Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner
- Significant experience of working with CYP
- Experience of working in or with a diverse or multi-cultural community
- Experience of delivering specific evidence based low intensity interventions to CYP and their families
- Worked in a service where agreed targets are in place and demonstrating clinical outcomes
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Experience of being supervised and utilising the supervision in clinical practise
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with looked after children or other vulnerable groups of CYP and of working in educational settings
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of common mental health issues experienced by CYP and how they may present
- Knowledge of evidence-based low intensity interventions for CYP
- Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
- Knowledge of and ability to use routine outcome measures (ROMs) with CYP and families
- Understands importance of collecting feedback from service users and other key stakeholders, and using this to contribute to quality improvement
- Ability to undertake comprehensive risk assessments, drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, within scope of practice
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues and a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of CYP and vulnerable adults
- Understanding of ethics and patient confidentiality in relation to working with CYP
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build and develop therapeutic and professional relationships with a range of people
- Able to communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues, CYP, and families, in a manner that is sensitive to and acknowledging of their needs, experience and all aspects of diversity
- Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individuals’ health and wellbeing, and support the development of relevant support
- Able to analyse and synthesize multiple sources of information to contribute to the team’s understanding and formulation of service users’ difficulties and the development of multi-disciplinary care plans
- Able to plan and deliver psychologically informed interventions to meet individual health and wellbeing needs
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills and use of internet mediated communication, tailored to a variety of audiences
- High standard of letter and report writing
- Excellent IT skills including ability to use Microsoft Office programmes and understanding of online clinical tools and programmes
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and patient confidentiality
- Able to work flexibly as required (within and outside of office hours)
- Able to travel independently between locations (including schools, NHS premises and service user homes etc) to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position
Desirable criteria
- Fluent in a language other than English – please state all languages you could work in
- Able to work with interpreters to deliver services
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rhona Edwards
- Job title
- Service Manager Getting Help Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07890 395552
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