Trainee Children & Young People’s Wellbeing Practitioner

Main duties of the job


1. To provide a high-quality low intensity psychological therapy service to individuals, carers, families and groups, in line with best evidence-based practice and trust care pathways including group therapy.

2. To communicate and liaise where appropriate with all other professionals involved in the individual young person’s treatment, on-going mental health care and any safeguarding or risk concerns.

3. To improve wellbeing through interventions and encouraging access to other agencies that provides wellbeing initiatives and promotes social inclusion.

4. To make decisions regarding suitability for therapy and clinical pathways with particular regard to issues of risk and onward referrals to other specialist services as required, in collaboration with clinical supervisor.

5. To formulate and implement treatment plans with the young person, normally within an agreed brief structured time frame and contracted

Working for our organisation
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners



We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and the person specification for more details about this role.

Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria

Meets training requirements for role
Essential
Essential criteria

Demonstrates understanding of common Mental health problems