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Young People's Wellbeing Practitioner and Social Prescriber
Salary: Band 5 - £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Hours: Permanent: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Location: CAMHS Community Sites, Nottingham/Nottinghamshire
Closing: 29/04/2025 11.59pm
Due to a new service development, there is an exciting opportunity for a wellbeing practitioner/ social prescribers to join a multi-agency team caring for young people 16+ in a supported accommodation setting.
Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) Children and Families Commissioning and Contracts team intend to build on the existing 16+ Supported Accommodation model by integrating a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to deliver a specialist psychologically informed service to young people in the Supported Accommodation model.
The need to do something different arose from the strategic review of 16+ Supported Accommodation provision where it was identified that young people and commissioned providers would benefit from access to specialist mental health/wellbeing and substance use specialists. NCC made a successful bid for DfE funding to provide a Staying Close Offer in Nottinghamshire. A key component of the bid was the creation of the MDT. Negotiations with Public Health and Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust (NHT) have been underway since January 2023 to design and shape the intended service.
Main duties of the job
Research and evidence has shown that a high proportion of young people in supported accommodation have experienced significant child trauma and that past trauma affects young people in the present day, specifically in terms of emotional regulation, processing and communicating how they feel and why they are feeling strong emotions. Evidence has also shown that 75% of young people in supported accommodation have either/both mental health issues and/or substance abuse issues. This can lead to behaviour in supported accommodation services that is challenging and may contribute to breakdowns in accommodation provision.
Supported accommodation providers are not specialists in these areas and interventions /responses to behaviours can at times unintentionally contribute to escalations in behaviours. In the most extreme cases young people lose their homes due to a lack of appropriate mental health/substance use/wellbeing interventions.
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