Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Band 6 – EMHP, CWP

Job overview

Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Band 6 – EMHP, CWP

We are seeking to recruit an experienced senior wellbeing practitioner to join the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service (THEWS).

THEWS is a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) established following the government Green Paper: Transforming Children & Young People’s Mental Health Provision. The service has undergone recent expansion.

Main duties of the job

The three core functions of a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) are:

• Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people (CYP) with mild-to-moderate mental health problems.
• Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce, develop and deliver the whole school/college approach.
• Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help CYP to get the right support and stay in education.

The role involves delivering all three MHST functions. The role involves providing clinical supervision to trainees and or newly qualified EWPs and holding small caseload of clinical work while acting as a senior link supporting school leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing, project work, and other tasks as/when required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For further information about this role, please contact Dr Sarah Oliver, Specialist Clinical Psychologist - [email protected]