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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Children's Wellbeing Practitioner Team
Our Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) Team provides direct intervention to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems.
Welcome to our service
The Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) Team are part of the ‘Getting help’ quadrant of i-THRIVE. We work with children and young people online and face-to-face.
Please note, we do not accept direct referrals. All referrals from professionals working with children and young people must be made through the YOUnited referral portal.
Who you will see and speak to
Our staff have psychology related degrees and complete the Post Graduate Certificate in Children and Young People’s Psychological Wellbeing Practice.
Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioners are training to become Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners. They will deliver Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) informed assessments and guided self-help for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems.
Children's Wellbeing Practitioners deliver Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) informed assessments and guided self-help for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems.
Senior Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners deliver Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) informed assessments and guided self-help for children and young people with moderate mental health problems. They also supervise and support the trainees and children’s wellbeing practitioners.
Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner Team Lead will lead the Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner team. They will triage referrals and provide assessments to more complex children and young people. They clinically supervise and develop team members. The lead will also work closely with partners.
Direct intervention
The CWP team provide direct intervention for mild to moderate mental health difficulties in children and young people. As a primary intervention, our team use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) informed guided self-help.
The CWP team work to a prescriptive guided self-help evidence-based model. They are unable to provide a ‘stepped down’ care for more specialist services once they have been discharged, because the intervention packages that they are trained in are targeted at early intervention and would therefore be clinically inappropriate.
If the child is:
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- Primary school age, we will be working primarily with the parents/carers, and involve the children where possible.
- Secondary school or college/sixth-form age, we will be working primarily with the young person and involve the parents as needed.
Mental health conditions and difficulties covered
Last reviewed: 1 November, 2023
