Children and Young People’s Mental Health Practitioner
- Employer
- Telford & Wrekin Council
- Location
- Telford
- Salary
- £37,938 -£40,476 per annum
- Closing date
- 3 Nov 2024
- Reference
- TW/TP/331/1020
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- Sector
- Local Councils
- Job Type
- Social work; Children - Qualified
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Working Pattern
- Standard
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
1 x Childrens Mental Health Practitioner to work with Children in Care – 37 hours per week – permanent contract.
As an experienced, worker in trauma/ mental and emotional wellbeing/systemic practice, would you like to work for an ‘Outstanding’ local authority – one with an established management team, committed to developing excellent practice and ensuring that our staff receive the best support we can offer?
There has never been a more exciting time to join our service: alongside making a difference to the lives of children and families, we have adopted exciting new strengths-based systemic approaches and are passionate about delivering continuous service improvement.
We need someone with experience and determination to support children and young adults in care and care experienced to provide stability in their lives and support them to build resilience and manage trauma through direct intervention in their lives.
You will be a part of a therapeutic systemic team, social work assistants, fostering support workers, social workers, personal advisers and Camhs.
You will have experience and use of models and approaches that are part of an evidenced based framework for practice with children and young people in emotional distress.
Staff undergo training and ongoing skills development workshops within children’s services and Camhs and follow a structured intervention programme with children and families which aims to work collaboratively with and increase engagement.
Our brilliant practitioners are at the heart of our ambitious approach to improve outcomes for children and families in Telford and Wrekin.
We value our practitioners and offer staff rewards and plenty of opportunities for personal development and career progression including:
Free on-site parking
Full reimbursement of your annual Social Work England registration fee (if applicable)
Essential car user allowance
Flexible and mobile working policy - we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home – our approach is to promote greater level of flexible working.
Here at Telford and Wrekin Council, we have been judged to be outstanding overall in terms of effectiveness (the only Authority in the West Midlands with this judgement).
Children are cared for and cared about
Social Workers and other staff who support children are very committed and they are exceptionally well trained
Children are listened to and their experiences are well understood
Senior Leaders aspire to a service for every child that they would welcome for their own
Children benefit from a stable workforce which is highly committed and experienced
Staff experience a wide range of development opportunities
If you share our passion for making a difference, we would be delighted if you joined us.
For further information on the role please click on the links below to view the job description and person specification.
If you would like an informal discussion about this post, please contact marie.hatton@telford.gov.uk or Harpal.bhamra@telford.gov.uk We are happy to arrange for you to come and see us.
Call 01952 381368
Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check. It is an offence to apply for a role that involves engaging in regulated activity with children and adults in vulnerable circumstances if you are barred from working with one or both of these groups.
Please click on the links below to view the job description and person specification.
At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice.
Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check. It is an offence to apply for a role that involves engaging in regulated activity with children and adults in vulnerable circumstances if you are barred from working with one or both of these groups.
A CV template is available if you do not already have a CV.
Attached documents
Children and Young People’s Mental Health Practitioner.docx
Company
Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, and we were recognised as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021.
At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us.
Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are the bigger difference we make to the people we serve.
In return we also offer a great range of benefits including competitive salaries, flexible working hours and work arrangements, employee discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, a local government pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.
At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice and we know we are stronger and better connected as a result.
We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and where our data shows that specific groups are under-represented within our workforce, our adverts will actively encourage applications from these groups.
We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions. You can find out more about this and our ‘guaranteed interview scheme’ here
You can also read more about our Recruitment and Selection Policy and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders here and the Transgender & Non-Binary Inclusion Policy commitments here
If you are unable to complete an online application form please contact the HR helpdesk on 01952 383601 or email hrhelpdesk@telford.gov.uk
We reserve the right to close our advertisements early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
- Website
- http://www.telford.gov.uk/
- Telephone
- 01952 380000
- Location
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Telford & Wrekin Council
Darby House
Lawn Central
Telford
Shropshire
TF3 4JA
United Kingdom
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