Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner Trainee

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<p>HCRG Care Group are looking to recruit Childrens Wellbeing Practitioners to continue to improve children and young peoples mental health services in Essex. </p><p>This is a training position where you will undertake training through <em>Anna Freud</em> alongside working in<strong> </strong>our Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services.</p><p>The Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) role has been developed by NHS England as part of the Children and Young Peoples Psychological Trainings (formerly CYP Improving Access to Psychological Therapies CYP IAPT) programme.</p><p>The course focuses on working within community and primary care settings to increase access to support for children, young people and families. Youll be trained as a CWP to offer evidence-based interventions like low intensity support and guided self-help.</p><p>This course enables you to support children and young people with mild to moderate:</p><ul><li>Anxiety (working with primary and secondary school pupils, parents and carers)</li><li>Low mood (adolescents)</li><li>Common behavioural difficulties (working with parents and carers).</li></ul><p><strong>Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early-mid January 2027. </strong>Positions cannot be offered to candidates unless they are available for the start date. </p>&

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About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

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• Date posted: 25 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £28,500 to £28,500 a year
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 12 months
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: HCRGCG/TP/171506/20371
• Job locations: HCRG Care Group, Basildon, Essex, SS13 1QX, United Kingdom

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