Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner Pontypridd, Wales
Job description
The successful candidate will join the CAMHS Team, and participate in a team structure that has responsibility for providing early, identification and brief intervention to promote positive emotional wellbeing and resilience. The role will primarily support the Clinical Nurse Specialist for school liaison to engage primary school aged children in the provision of education, to promote the emotional wellbeing and resilience through the delivery of agreed programmes of group and individual interventions that have been identified.
Support the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in the development and implementation of plans and strategies for schools, to support children and young people with low level mental health and emotional problems such as anxiety and low mood. Under the supervision and direction of the CNS will design, develop, manage and deliver developmentally appropriate and evidence based early intervention and low threshold group interventions and activities within a variety of settings for children predominantly but not exclusively aged 4 to 11 years.
Provide 1:1 psychoeducation and interventions to support emotional wellbeing. support the delivery of approved training to relevant staff.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Additional contact details:
Melanie Fletcher
Clinical Nurse Specialist
[email protected]
