Family Wellbeing Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Family Wellbeing Practitioner to join the CAMHS Early Support Team, working in GP surgeries in Conwy County Borough. The role involves delivering early intervention and prevention strategies to children, young people, and their families, focusing on emotional wellbeing. The successful candidate will provide assessments, advice, signposting, and brief interventions, as well as offering training and consultation to primary care practitioners. This is a 12-month fixed-term position to cover maternity leave.
Essential criteria
- Registered health or social care professional with active professional registration. Eligible to practice under the mental health measure Wales 2010. This includes registered mental health nurses, social workers (Social Care Wales registration),
- Clinical Master's Degree or equivalent educational or experience indicating performance at masters level
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate management qualification
- Eligible to practice under the mental health measure
- Formal accredited additional therapeutic qualification and or non-medical nurse prescriber.
- Substantial relevant experience in a clinical post with children and young people
- Track record of significant continuous professional development including an early intervention and prevention focus
- Service Development experience
- Proven experience in the creation/promotion of learning environment
- Experience in teaching, mentorship and coaching
- Experience of service user teaching and information giving
- Developing higher levels of autonomy
- Assessing and managing risk.
- Including single consultation models and brief therapy
- Service user engagement
- Research
- Working in a GP or Primary care setting
- Leadership development/training
- Registered health or social care professional with active professional registration. Eligible to practice under the mental health measure Wales 2010. This includes registered mental health nurses, social workers (Social Care Wales registration),
- Clinical Master's Degree or equivalent educational or experience indicating performance at masters level
- Post-graduate management qualification
- Eligible to practice under the mental health measure
- Formal accredited additional therapeutic qualification and or non-medical nurse prescriber.
- Substantial relevant experience in a clinical post with children and young people
- Track record of significant continuous professional development including an early intervention and prevention focus
- Service Development experience
- Proven experience in the creation/promotion of learning environment
- Experience in teaching, mentorship and coaching
- Experience of service user teaching and information giving
- Developing higher levels of autonomy
- Assessing and managing risk.
- Including single consultation models and brief therapy
- Service user engagement
- Research
- Working in a GP or Primary care setting
- Leadership development/training
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £50,129 – £57,365 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Family Wellbeing Practitioner
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
This post is Fixed Term/Secondment for 12 months to cover a period of Maternity Leave.
If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the CAMHS Early Support Team working as a Family Wellbeing Practitioner working in a cluster of primary care GP surgeries in Conwy County Borough.
The postholder will possess the passion and necessary skills required for delivering early intervention and prevention to children, young people and their families.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for clinicians with substantial knowledge in child and adolescent development and early intervention and prevention strategies to improve emotional wellbeing. The successful candidate will have well developed assessment and formulation skills, the ability to provide both broad and specific advice in relation to emotional health and wellbeing in children and mental health and developmental disorders.
The successful applicant will be required to offer training and consultation to primary care practitioners, and will provide direct advice, signposting and brief intervention to children and young people presenting
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