Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Band 6 – EMHP, CWP
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service (THEWS), a Mental Health Support Team (MHST). The service delivers evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mild-to-moderate mental health problems. The postholder will support senior mental health leads in schools to develop whole-school approaches to wellbeing. This position involves providing clinical supervision, managing a small clinical caseload, and engaging in project work.
Essential criteria
- Completed either the PG Cert Supervision: Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing or the PG Dip: Senior Wellbeing Practitioner course. Please note, all candidates without either of these qualifications will be rejected.
- Registration with BABCP and/or BPS applied for
- Substantial experience of working with evidence-based approaches for mild to moderate mental health problems in children and young people
- Experience of supervising low intensity practice with CYP and families
- Experience of routine outcome monitoring
- Experience working with schools
- Experience working as part of an MHST
- Experience of service development
- Experience of consultation
- Experience of teaching/training other professionals
- Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of current guidelines and recent developments in evidence-based assessments and interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management and mental health in relation to children, young people and their families
- Knowledge, understanding and experience with diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation
- Knowledge of current guidelines in terms of the implementation of the whole-school approach in education
- Education/ Qualification/Training
- Completed either the PG Cert Supervision: Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing or the PG Dip: Senior Wellbeing Practitioner course. Please note, all candidates without either of these qualifications will be rejected.
- Registration with BABCP and/or BPS applied for
- Substantial experience of working with evidence-based approaches for mild to moderate mental health problems in children and young people
- Experience of supervising low intensity practice with CYP and families
- Experience of routine outcome monitoring
- Experience working with schools
- Experience working as part of an MHST
- Experience of service development
- Experience of consultation
- Experience of teaching/training other professionals
- Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of current guidelines and recent developments in evidence-based assessments and interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management and mental health in relation to children, young people and their families
- Knowledge, understanding and experience with diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation
- Knowledge of current guidelines in terms of the implementation of the whole-school approach in education
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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East London NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Band 6 – EMHP, CWP
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Band 6 - EMHP, CWP
We are seeking to recruit an experienced senior wellbeing practitioners to join the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service (THEWS).
THEWS is a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) established following the government Green Paper: Transforming Children & Young People's Mental Health Provision. The service has undergone recent expansion.
The three core functions of a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) are:
1. Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people (CYP) with mild-to-moderate mental health problems.
2. Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce, develop and deliver the whole school/college approach.
3. Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help CYP to get the right support and stay in education.
Main duties of the job
The role involves delivering all three MHST functions. The role involves providing clinical supervision to practitioners within the team, holding a small caseload of clinical work (based on the postholder's training and interests), acting as a senior link supporting school leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing, project
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