Job summary

HCRG Care Group are looking to recruit Childrens Wellbeing Practitioners to continue to improve children and young peoples mental health services in Essex. This is a training position where you will undertake training through Anna Freud alongside working in our Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services. The Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) role has been developed by NHS England as part of the Children and Young Peoples Psychological Trainings programme. The course focuses on working within community and primary care settings to increase access to support for children, young people and families. Youll be trained as a CWP to offer evidence-based interventions like low intensity support and guided self-help. This course enables you to support children and young people with mild to moderate: Anxiety (working with primary and secondary school pupils, parents and carers) Low mood (adolescents) Common behavioural difficulties (working with parents and carers). Applicants will need to be ready ...

Main duties of the job

HCRG Care Group is recruiting Childrens Wellbeing Practitioners to enhance mental health services for the youth in Essex. This training role involves studies at Anna Freud while working with the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services. The NHS England-development CWP role, part of Children and Young Peoples Psychological Trainings, focuses on community and primary care settings, offering low-intensity support and guided self-help for mild to moderate issues including anxiety, low mood, and behavioral challenges. Successful applicants must begin in January 2027, apply concurrently for the university course, and own a vehicle for work. The program offers significant training focusing on evidence-based, collaborative practices and cross-agency collaboration, expecting trainees to complete a year-long training course alongside practical service provision.

About us

HCRG Care Group, established in 2006, is a leading independent provider of community health and care services in the UK. They work closely with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services, emphasizing experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. The group is committed to transforming adult and children community health services, including primary care services and adult social care and wellbeing services. With a strong focus on changing lives through transforming health and care, the organization supports communities across England, directly impacting over half a million people annually. The organization prides itself on its inclusive policies, striving to provide an environment that welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds, supporting equal opportunities and inclusion for all.

Details

Date posted

16 October 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£28,500 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

1564631727

Job locations

HCRG Care Group

Colchester

CO7 7FD

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

HCRG Care Group are looking to recruit Childrens Wellbeing Practitioners to continue to improve children and young peoples mental health services in Essex.

This is a training position where you will undertake training through Anna Freud alongside working inour Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services.

TheChildrens Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP)role has been developed by NHS England as part of the Children and Young Peoples Psychological Trainings (formerly CYP Improving Access to Psychological Therapies CYP IAPT) programme.

The course focuses on working within community and primary care settings to increase access to support for children, young people and families. Youll be trained as a CWP to offer evidence-based interventions like low intensity support and guided self-help.

This course enables you to support children and young people with mild to moderate:

• Anxiety (working with primary and secondary school pupils, parents and carers)
• Low mood (adolescents)
• Common behavioural difficulties (working with parents and carers).

Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early-mid January 2027.Positions cannot be offered to candidates unless they are available for the start date.

Please note that applications for this position is a dual process. Prospective candidates must apply to the university course at the same time as application to this role.A standard recruitment process will follow, with our shortlisted candidate information being shared with the university. The university will check their application portal, confirm candidates course eligibility and report this to the service. The service will create a final shortlist with this information and will offer to the applicant successful at the job interview (subject to final university checks).

You will need a Driving license and use of vehicle for work purposes

Package Description

You will feel valued as a Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner Trainee within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £28,500 with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffeeand milk at your base location
• 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 lifes 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 youre 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

Main Responsibilities

We are seeking to recruit 2 graduate level practitioners to provide guided self-help therapy and parenting interventions.

These posts are fully funded for a one year.

You will learn:

• Evidence-based and collaborative practice
• Availability and awareness of evidence-based interventions
• Goal-focused, client-centred interventions using feedback tools to facilitate collaboration between professionals, young people and families, leading to more personalised care
• Giving children, young people and familiesa voice and influence
• Cross-agency collaboration between health, social care, voluntary and independent sectors
• Working with partner organisations to reduce stigma of mental health and improve understanding of the importance of emotional wellbeing
• Making services accountable by monitoring and sharing outcome data with young people, families and commissioners.
• Be trained to offer consultations and training to colleagues from partner agencies.
• Be introduced to a range of outcome and feedback measures used in CYP Psychological Trainings (PT), and review and interpret them with children, young people, parents and carers
• Develop an understanding of the core principles of participation and collaboration, and learn how to integrate this into your work.

Assessment:

• Youll be assessed through presentations, reflective analysis, a poster, a case report and video clips of your clinical practice.
• This programme emphasises putting skills into practice and consolidating learning.
• You will develop a portfolio of a range of case work over the year, aiming for a minimum of 30 pieces of case work.

The post holder will attend all university based taught and self-study days required by the education provider, as specified within the agreed national curriculum and work in the service for the remaining days of the week using their newly developed skills.

The PgDip CWP training programme will take place over 12 months.

• There are approximately 64 teaching daysin the year,split between three terms: Term one:three days per week Term two:two days per week Term three:one day per week

During university holidays, youre expected to work full time in your service. Trainees will have the usual annual leave allocation in line with HCRG Care Group Policy.

The Ideal Candidate

Please note that you will need to submit an application to University for a place on the programme, in addition to the job application that you make with us.

Please apply for the university course via: https://evision.ucl.ac.uk/urd/sits.urd/run/siw_ipp_lgn.login_enc?0qhYzuG1h9udTFM8i9sPhtGiUgIR6D6iP0

If you have any questions related to the course, please contact [email protected]

Ideal candidates will:

• Second-class or higher bachelors degree from a UK university in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, education, childhood development, social work)
• An overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject
• Degree in any subject with further training or experience in a relevant field (e.g. teaching, TA, learning support, HCA, youth work, counselling).

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 need aDriving license and use of vehicle for work purposes

Please read the Job Description and Person Specification for more details before applying for the role.

For any queries related to the role please contact the hiring team at [email protected]

About the Company

We 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. Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As youd 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.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Job description Job responsibilities Package Description:HCRG Care Group are looking to recruit Childrens Wellbeing Practitioners to continue to improve children and young peoples mental health services in Essex.This is a training position where you will undertake training through Anna Freud alongside working inour Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services.TheChildrens Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP)role has been developed by NHS England as part of the Children and Young Peoples Psychological Trainings (formerly CYP Improving Access to Psychological Therapies CYP IAPT) programme.The course focuses on working within community and primary care settings to increase access to support for children, young people and families. Youll be trained as a CWP to offer evidence-based interventions like low intensity support and guided self-help.This course enables you to support children and young people with mild to moderate: Anxiety (working with primary and secondary school pupils, parents and carers) Low mood (adolescents) Common behavioural difficulties (working with parents and carers).Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early-mid January 2027.Positions cannot be offered to candidates unless they are available for the start date.Please note that applications for this position is a dual process. Prospective candidates must apply to the university course at the same time as application to this role.A standard recruitment process will follow, with our shortlisted candidate information being shared with the university. The university will check their application portal, confirm candidates course eligibility and report this to the service. The service will create a final shortlist with this information and will offer to the applicant successful at the job interview (subject to final university checks).You will need a Driving license and use of vehicle for work purposesPackage DescriptionYou will feel valued as a Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner Trainee within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: A salary of £28,500 with access to our group pension Free tea, coffeeand milk at your base location 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 lifes 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 youre 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 yearMain ResponsibilitiesWe are seeking to recruit 2 graduate level practitioners to provide guided self-help therapy and parenting interventions.These posts are fully funded for a one year.You will learn: Evidence-based and collaborative practice Availability and awareness of evidence-based interventions Goal-focused, client-centred interventions using feedback tools to facilitate collaboration between professionals, young people and families, leading to more personalised care Giving children, young people and familiesa voice and influence Cross-agency collaboration between health, social care, voluntary and independent sectors Working with partner organisations to reduce stigma of mental health and improve understanding of the importance of emotional wellbeing Making services accountable by monitoring and sharing outcome data with young people, families and commissioners. Be trained to offer consultations and training to colleagues from partner agencies. Be introduced to a range of outcome and feedback measures used in CYP Psychological Trainings (PT), and review and interpret them with children, young people, parents and carers Develop an understanding of the core principles of participation and collaboration, and learn how to integrate this into your work.Assessment: Youll be assessed through presentations, reflective analysis, a poster, a case report and video clips of your clinical practice. This programme emphasises putting skills into practice and consolidating learning. You will develop a portfolio of a range of case work over the year, aiming for a minimum of 30 pieces of case work.The post holder will attend all university based taught and self-study days required by the education provider, as specified within the agreed national curriculum and work in the service for the remaining days of the week using their newly developed skills.The PgDip CWP training programme will take place over 12 months. There are approximately 64 teaching daysin the year,split between three terms: Term one:three days per week Term two:two days per week Term three:one day per week During university holidays, youre expected to work full time in your service. Trainees will have the usual annual leave allocation in line with HCRG Care Group Policy.The Ideal CandidatePlease note that you will need to submit an application to University for a place on the programme, in addition to the job application that you make with us.Please apply for the university course via: https://evision.ucl.ac.uk/urd/sits.urd/run/siw_ipp_lgn.login_enc?0qhYzuG1h9udTFM8i9sPhtGiUgIR6D6iP0If you have any questions related to the course, please contact [email protected] candidates will: Second-class or higher bachelors degree from a UK university in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, education, childhood development, social work) An overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject Degree in any subject with further training or experience in a relevant field (e.g. teaching, TA, learning support, HCA, youth work, counselling).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 need aDriving license and use of vehicle for work purposesPlease read the Job Description and Person Specification for more details before applying for the role.For any queries related to the role please contact the hiring team at [email protected]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. Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.As youd 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.Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Second-class or higher bachelors degree from a UK university in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, education, childhood development, social work). An overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject. Degree in any subject with further training or experience in a relevant field (e.g. teaching, TA, learning support, HCA, youth work, counselling). Competent use of IT systems, specifically Microsoft Office packages.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential Second-class or higher bachelors degree from a UK university in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, education, childhood development, social work). An overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject. Degree in any subject with further training or experience in a relevant field (e.g. teaching, TA, learning support, HCA, youth work, counselling). Competent use of IT systems, specifically Microsoft Office packages.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Colchester

CO7 7FD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Colchester

CO7 7FD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)