Trainee Senior Wellbeing Practitioner

We have an exciting opportunity for a Trainee Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join the Northumberland Mental Health Support Team in Alnwick/Coquet. As a trainee, you will enrol on the 24-months Senior Wellbeing Programme at the University of Northumbria.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and self-motivated individual with a passion for delivering early intervention and innovative new models of working in children's mental health.

The post holder will be responsible for delivering the 3 core functions of a Mental Health Support Team: 1:1 evidence-based interventions, whole school approach work and provide advice and guidance to our partners across education, health and social care. These roles sit within the 'getting help' sector of the Thrive model. As a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, you will also deliver the enhanced practice pathways and provide supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners within the team.

We support a blended/hybrid model of working recognising the value of home life balance. We will ensure we consider suitable arrangements are made to your work and home base to guarantee suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role., The role will involve delivering a range of evidenced-based low intensity psychological interventions for children and young people with mild/moderate need. These will be delivered individually and in small group-based programmes. This will also include the facilitation of a range of psychoeducation sessions and staff training.

The role will provide support to education settings to improve the whole school approach to emotional well-being.

The post holder will also deliver a consultation and signposting role to a range of early help, targeted and specialist support services supporting children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing.

As a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner you will provide supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners in the team and engage proactively in the wider supervision offer and service development initiatives.

Engaging proactively with the wider team and our external partners is fundamental to the role and the delivery of the Mental Health Support Team functions.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients?

You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.