Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (FTC 12 Months)

at  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) role has been developed by NHS England as part of the Children and Young Peoples Psychological Trainings (formerly CYP Improving Access to Psychological Therapies CYP IAPT) programme. It is being rolled out in children and young peoples mental health services across the country. The course focuses on working within community and primary care settings to increase access to support for children, young people and families. Youll be trained as a CWP to offer evidence-based interventions like low intensity support and guided self-help.
This course enables you to support children and young people with mild to moderate: Anxiety (working with primary and secondary school pupils, parents and carers) Low mood (adolescents) Common behavioural difficulties (working with parents and carers). Additionally, you will: Be trained to offer consultations and training to colleagues from partner agencies Be introduced to a range of outcome and feedback measures used in CYP Psychological Trainings (PT), and review and interpret them with children, young people, parents and carers Develop an understanding of the core principles of participation and collaboration, and learn how to integrate this into your work CYP (formerly CYP IAPT) was developed to help meet targets set out in the NHS mental health plan, Implementing the Five-Year Forward View for Mental Health. These targets include offering evidence-based interventions to 70,000 more children and young people a year and training 1,700 new staff in evidence-based treatments. Anna Freud, University College London and Kings College London deliver the training in London and the south east.
CYP is a whole service transformation model that seeks to improve the quality of children and young peoples mental health services. The principles behind CYP underpin the development and delivery of Local Transformation Plans and run throughout Future in Mind. CYP seeks to improve services to children, young people and their families through: Better evidence-based and collaborative practice Increased availability and awareness of evidence-based interventions Goal-focused, client-centred interventions using feedback tools to facilitate collaboration between professionals, young people and families, leading to more personalised care Improved service user participation Giving children, young people and families a voice and influence Cross-agency collaboration between health, social care, voluntary and independent sectors Working with partner organisations to reduce stigma of mental health and improve understanding of the importance of emotional wellbeing Making services accountable by monitoring and sharing outcome data with young people, families and commissioners

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