Emotional Health & Wellbeing Lead Practitioner

Do you want to support a team who work with children, young people with emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties?

The post holder will act as Lead Practitioner on a day to day basis responsible for the management and supervision of practitioners supporting Children, Young People, and Young Adults in our Emotional Health & Wellbeing services based in Leeds.

It is planned to offer drop in sessions where young people can drop in and meet trained staff one to one. Young people can come along and talk through what they are struggling with. The service holds no waiting lists and therefore the ability to build relationships quickly, identify risks, and process further support is vital.

Alongside our drop-in support, we will also offer young people more structured one-to-one sessions if appropriate.

The nature of the Emotional Health & Wellbeing services the ability to build relationships quickly, identify risks, and process further support is vital.

In order to be considered for this post you will have to demonstrate that you already have:

Skills
- Experience of management and supervision of staff and volunteers: (following the necessary training and support
- Computer literate and is able to navigate a data management system (after training is provided)
- Excellent verbal and written Communication skills, including telephone skills
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with all clients - Practicing in a non-judgement and anti-discriminatory manner
- Competencies in undertaking risk assessments within scope of practice
- Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training
- Experience of managing risk of a service and implementing and safe practice standards
- Experience in collating, understanding and challenging data sets with practice teams.

Work-based Knowledge

- Knowledge of anxiety and depression presentations in Primary Care and an understanding of evidence based interventions.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the issues surrounding socio- economic factors and mental health.
- Knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding legislation, policy and procedures and risks for children, young people and young adults aged 0-25.
- Able to demonstrate a knowledge of the issues that children, young people and young adults face when accessing mental health services.


For an application pack please visit the web site http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/about-us/work-usor telephone The Children's Society Recruitment team on 020 7841 4400

The Children’s Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children’s lives happier and safer. 

Every day we’re changing the lives of children in this country for the better – and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more. 

All people within diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply, and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. 

The Children’s Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with.  As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.  We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services. 

Therefore, candidates applying for work in our Youth Impact Domain will be required to complete an “Employment history_template” document prior to interview.    

This vacancy closes at midnight on 7th September 2024. If after 14 days we have received enough applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy from 23rd August onwards.

Interview date to be confirmed.