Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) - CAMHS Targeted Team
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves delivering low-intensity psychological interventions for mild to moderate low mood and anxiety disorders in children and young people within the CAMHS Targeted Team. You will conduct mental health assessments, including risk assessments and care plans, and provide one-to-one CBT-informed interventions both remotely and face-to-face. Opportunities to deliver group interventions and work with families and schools are also part of the role. The position requires travel between community locations.
Essential criteria
- Qualification from CWP Training course (Post Graduate Certificate in CYP IAPT Low Intensity Psychological Therapies
- Experience of working with children and young people who have serious mental illness and their families and carers in the community
- Contractual Requirements or other requirements
- Ability to travel between sites
- IT competent
- Qualification from CWP Training course (Post Graduate Certificate in CYP IAPT Low Intensity Psychological Therapies
- Experience of working with children and young people who have serious mental illness and their families and carers in the community
- Contractual Requirements or other requirements
- Ability to travel between sites
- IT competent
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxford Health NHS Trust
Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) - CAMHS Targeted Team
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge within a dynamic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service that is currently transforming its Getting Help offer?
We are recruitingtwo Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) to join theBuckinghamshire CAMHS Targeted Team. The two vacancies comprise one full-time substantive role and one fixed-term maternity cover position until 30 August 2027.
A Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) is a highly specialist role in a CAMHS team. The role is pivotal to enhancing accessibility to CAMHS by delivering low-intensity psychological interventions for mild to moderate low mood and anxiety disorders. The national Children and Young People's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) programme was developed following recommendations made in 'Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health' plan, to provide evidence-based interventions for children and young people.
With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people's mental health and wellbeing, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health CAMHS and make a positive difference to children and young people's lives.
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