Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Adolescent Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-LS-CAMHS-771-A
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Heart of Hounslow Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £44,485 - £52,521 per annum inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/04/2026 17:00
Employer heading
Senior Mental Health Practitioner (Hounslow MHST)
Band 6
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
We are pleased to recruit to the role of Senior Wellbeing Practitioner within the Hounslow Mental Health Support Team in West London NHS Trust. The role offers the opportunity for qualified Senior Wellbeing Practitioner experienced in providing supervision to trainee or qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioners to join our team. Please note that applicants are required to have both PGDip EMHP and PCert SWP qualifications to be eligible for this role.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidates will be providing clinical and skills-based supervision to qualified EMHPs and trainees, with the support of a Team Lead. Alongside this, you would be working as a senior practitioner delivering evidence-based interventions to children, young people and families/carers within schools. The role will also include supporting Team Leads and managers with aspects of service development and operational functioning of the team.
We invite applications from qualified Senior Wellbeing Practitioners to join our team with experience working within schools who are interested to develop their supervision skills and utilise these in supporting qualified practitioners and more junior members of staff. We are looking for people who have good skills in team working, and who value working with a diverse staff group.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Evidence of qualification as a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner (PGCert SWP) from accredited training provider.
- Evidence of qualification as Education Mental Health Practitioner (PGDip EMHP) OR Child Wellbeing Practitioner (PGDip CWP) from accredited training provider
Desirable criteria
- Psychology or other health /social care/youth related undergraduate degree
- Other relevant postgraduate degree
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner and providing supervision for junior staff
- Significant experience post EMHP/ CWP qualification of working with children and/or young people and families
- Knowledge of child and adolescent development and the role of the family in supporting children and young people’s emotional well-being
- Understanding of systems and contexts in which children and young people are likely to live
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place to demonstrating outcomes
- Experience in providing manualised CWP/EMHP interventions for children and young people experiencing, mild to moderate anxiety, low mood and behavioural difficulties.
- Experience of MDT working
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties
- Experience of working with children with neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g. ASC, ADHD, Mild-moderate LD)
- Able to identify common mental health problems in children and young people
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place to demonstrating outcomes
- Understands why collecting feedback from children, young people and parents is important
Aptitude & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- Able to develop good professional relationships with colleagues inside and beyond the service
- Responsive to and willing to ask for feedback and supervision
Desirable criteria
- Received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hully Wolderufael
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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