Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Band 6 – EMHP, CWP

Job summary

Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Band 6 - EMHP, CWPWe are seeking to recruit an experienced senior wellbeing practitioners 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.

The three core functions of a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) are:
1. Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people (CYP) with mild-to-moderate mental health problems.
2. Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce, develop and deliver the whole school/college approach.
3. 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.

Main duties of the jobThe role involves delivering all three MHST functions. The role involves providing clinical supervision to practitioners within the team, holding a small caseload of clinical work (based on the postholder's training and interests), acting as a senior link supporting school leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing, project work, other tasks as/when required.

About us Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

THEWS is part of the Tower Hamlets Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) based in Whitechapel, East  line with Trust policy, the service has adopted a hybrid clinical working model of direct face to face and remote working as appropriate.

The service embraces continual improvement and well-being of the staff and has a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement and working together with partner agencies to provide the highest quality service to the population we serve.

Details Date posted
11 September 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

BandBand 6

Salary
47,951 to 56,863 a year

Per annum

Contract Permanent Working  pattern

Full-time

Reference number
363-SS7941251-DJob locations

Tower Hamlets CAMHS
18 Greatorex Street London E1  5NF
United Kingdom Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful candidates must havecompletedeither the PG Cert Supervision:
Children and Young Peoples Mental Health and Wellbeing or the PG Dip:
Senior Wellbeing Practitioner course.

For further information about this role, please contact Marsha Mungo-Okolie, Senior CAMHS Practitioner
- Job description
Job responsibilities

The successful candidates must havecompletedeither the PG Cert Supervision:
Children and Young Peoples Mental Health and Wellbeing or the PG Dip:
Senior Wellbeing Practitioner course.

For further information about this role, please contact Marsha Mungo-Okolie, Senior CAMHS Practitioner - m.mungo-okolie2

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/Training

Essential Completed either the PG Cert Supervision:
Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing or the PG Dip:
Senior Wellbeing Practitioner course. Please note, all candidates without either of these qualifications will be rejected.

Registration with BABCP and/or BPS applied for

Experience

Essential Substantial experience of working with evidence-based approaches for mild to moderate mental health problems in children and young people

Experience of supervising low intensity practice with CYP and families

Experience of routine outcome monitoring

Experience working with schools

Experience working as part of an MHSTExperience of service development

Experience of consultation

Experience of teaching/training other professionals

Knowledge and Skills

Essential Knowledge of current guidelines and recent developments in evidence-based assessments and interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems

Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management and mental health in relation to children, young people and their families

Knowledge, understanding and experience with diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation

Knowledge of current guidelines in terms of the implementation of the whole-school approach in…