As an Affinity Practitioner you will join our team who are striving to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children and families in the community, for the community, with the community.
Affinity Practitioners work in close partnership with Children and Young People, their parents/ carers, education and health colleagues to prevent school exclusions. Using a restorative coaching methodology, the post holder will enable young people to make informed decisions around their own personal development, behaviour, welfare and mental health.
Package DescriptionAs an Affinity Practitioner, you’ll be part of our amazing team in West Essex.
You will feel valued as a within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
£28,875 with group pension
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Main Responsibilities
Work closely with the schools' leadership team and Healthy Schools Engagement worker providing intensive targeted support to enable Essex schools to make changes that facilitate the emotion regulation of children and young people.
Serves as a coach working closely with the child / young person and their family to establish and implement a co-produced action plan focused on the development of emotion regulation skills.
Facilitate Professional Developments for school support staff, students, and teachers.
Coach and support teachers and support staff on the integration of emotion coaching in their classrooms to develop a trauma responsive approach.
The Ideal CandidateYou will have a relevant undergraduate degree or evidence of working at degree level, with experience in working therapeutically with children and young people with emotional health needs.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
You will also need a driving License and access to vehicle for work purposes.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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