Wellbeing Practitioner

Description:

Wellbeing Practitioner (19086)

Are you looking for an exciting and new challenge? Are you passionate about supporting children and young people? We are seeking an experienced and accredited Wellbeing Practitioner to join our Nottinghamshire based Time 2 Talk Team on a full time, fixed term basis for one year.

As a Wellbeing Practitioner you will provide flexible, responsive, and bespoke mental health and wellbeing support to UASC young people.

Location: The role will be primarily based in Arnold, however there will also be travel across Nottinghamshire and potentially further afield depending on the needs of the service.

The successful candidate's must haves:

* A relevant qualification (Diploma Level)

* Evidence of continuing professional development in a field relevant to Children and Young Person mental health.

* Experience in supporting children and young people in Person Centred Therapy, Integrative, Behavioural, EMDR or Counselling.

* An understanding of legislation and policies in relation to Safeguarding young people.

* Experience of offering mental health support, consultation and interventions to young people.

* Registration with a Professional Body such as BACP, HCPC, UKCP or NMC

Roles and Responsibilities:

* Provide support and guidance on mental health issues.

* Provide support to a young person which may involve support to attend a GP appointment or more intensive support ‘bridging the gap' between Children's and Adult's Mental Health Services.

* Provide flexible, responsive and bespoke mental health & wellbeing support to UASC young people from their arrival in Nottinghamshire, usually from the age of 14 to 25.

* Apply safeguarding and child protection procedures.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

* Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.

* 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service

* The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme

* A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options

* Service related sick pay from day 1

* Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution

* Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension

* Cycle2work scheme

* Interest free season ticket loans

* Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal

* 20% discount at Barnardo's stores

* Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc

* Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support

* Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

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