Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner; Wellbeing Practitioner

Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (Wellbeing Practitioner)

We are looking for 3 highly motivated wellbeing practitioners to lead interventions and become an integral part of our therapeutic and wellbeing team based in central Huddersfield.

You will work as part of the Brew Project, a service focused on offering confidential and non-judgmental 1-2-1 emotional health and wellbeing interventions as well as group work to children and young people 5-17. This is part of Localas Kirklees 0-19 service.

The Wellbeing Practitioner will lead on emotional health and wellbeing interventions and deliver the highest quality service ensuring that young people have access to effective support in a timely and accessible manner. They will undergo training to learn core practitioner skills and use their skills, experiences and knowledge to aid young peoples emotional wellbeing.

They will be responsible for managing a busy caseload of young people, offering interventions, signposting and referring to local groups and establishing and maintaining partnerships with appropriate schools, organisations and individuals.

We require a wellbeing practitioner to work on one or more evening shifts (2:30 - 7:30pm) Mon-Fri

Major Duties:

To provide one to one wellbeing support sessions for CYPs (children and young people) on a weekly basis from area of need; focusing on building emotional wellbeing and resilience.

To provide timely, effective and accessible support by offering strategies, resources and approaches which can support a young person over a short term period.

Providing support and collaboratively identifying, managing, mitigating and resolving problematic thoughts, feelings or behaviours.

To work closely with community leaders to ensure Invictus offer to them is robust and effective and that they are getting the service they want and need.

Under supervision, undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others

To signpost YPs for further support as and when necessary.

To identify and report safeguarding incidents, in line with relevant Invictus WellBeings policies.

Provision of information, advice and guidance (IAG) to YPs and staff regarding related issues, typically these would include general welfare, academic, professional, health and personal.

Reporting on trends and needs in the above areas in order to improve and develop support for young people.

To update monitoring documents/reports consistently and analyse trends and use them where appropriate in support sessions.

To keep spreadsheets, administrative processes and client records up to date.

Ensure that confidentiality is always protected in accordance with confidentiality policy and procedures.

Invictus Wellbeing is West Yorkshires Children and Young Persons Mental Health Charity. We offer timely, effective and accessible mental health support whilst also promoting positive mental wellbeing in the communities we serve. We offer a range of services across Calderdale, Bradford and Kirklees and in 2022 worked with over 2,000 individual children and young people across a variety of projects.

Our mission is to ensure that all children and young people have access to the support they want and need. By acting early, we can reduce the likelihood of more severe issues developing through building resilience and positive mental wellbeing.

• Experience of working with children and young people with social, emotional or mental health difficulties
• A track record of delivering results with quality outcomes, measured to key performance indicators
• Experience of building and nurturing strong relationships with service users.
• Experience of working with children and young people directly.

• Be educated to undergraduate level or equivalent
• Qualification in Social Work, Youth Work, Counselling, Psychotherapy, Psychology or other relevant field.
• Full & Clean Driving License
• Holds a recognised membership of a relevant professional body (BACP/ PTUK/ UKCP/NCS/BPS)

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.