Children's Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum

Children's Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum

Online Conference, 5 CPD hours

Thu 6 Mar 2025

Dedicated CPD accredited training to support CWP professional development

This educational forum was the perfect opportunity to stop and really think about how to improve your own therapeutic practice and strategise for the future. This online forum provided a valuable and unique opportunity for you to be part of the wider CWP network and dedicate time to developing your skills. Through great speakers and thought-provoking discussion, attendees were able to discover how their role is operating in different parts of the country, identify how to improve day-to-day skills and work effectively in the different treatment settings.

Sponsored by:

Breaking out of isolation and sharing ideas with a new network of like-minded CWPs

Carefully created to support you in your emerging CWP role, this dedicated forum explored the unique challenges and opportunities of different treatment contexts and therapeutic approaches. Participants left inspired, connected and equipped to deliver new ideas to enhance their role and service delivery. Key learning outcomes included:

Tackling isolated working
Moving away from rigid treatment settings
Working with physical conditions
Low intensity CWP working in charity organisations
Supporting joined-up working with different services
Getting back to basics with time management skills
Bridging the gap between training to practical working

Beneficial, thought-provoking discussions to leave you inspired and motivated

Here are just a few comments from some of the attendees:

"It was a very positive experience. The presentations were interesting and inspiring. All of the staff facilitating the day were supportive and worked really hard to facilitate interesting discussion"

- Children's Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, March 2025

"Really impressed with the forum. Great experience as the day was planned and managed very well- it was a long day but broken up nicely with presentations/break out rooms"

- Children's Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, March 2025

"Really professional and friendly. Enjoyed hearing from all of the speakers, who were extremely knowledgeable and covered a wide range of relevant topics"

- Children's Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, March 2025

"Kirsty was a wonderful chair, she is clearly very experienced and passionate about her role! The speakers were equally passionate and informative"

- Children's Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, March 2025

"Very useful to hear from other CWPs and learn from their experiences/settings. The break out rooms were chaired really well, which helped them be relevant and interesting"

- Children's Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, March 2025

"Incredible experience - thankyou!"

- Children's Wellbeing Practitioner National Networking Forum, March 2025

With thanks to our sponsors

SBK would like to thank SilverCloud by Amwell and Koa Health for sponsoring this forum.

9.00	Join, technical support and instructions
9.30	Introduction, instructions and leader’s opening remarks Kirsty McNeilis, Specialist Lecturer, Lead Tutor and Unit Lead – CYWP, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Enabling a CWP pathway
9.40	Embedding an effective CWP pathway in your CAMHS service Exploring how to make an effective CWP pathway in your CAMHS service Understanding what effective supervision and management looks like Supporting the development of CWPs: creating career opportunities and professional growth Michelle Rudd, Transformation Lead for Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust and Hing Ping Wang, CBT Lead, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
10.10	Questions and answers with your speakers
10.20	Utilising SilverCloud: Delivering guided self-help CBT tools for young people Following the NICE Early Value Assessment (EVA) approach to enable effective guided self-help CBT for young people, how can your service use SilverCloud to help deliver on ambitions in the 2025/26 guidance?  Sam Lane, Senior Product Manager, SilverCloud by Amwell
10.30	Rethinking the treatment of child anxiety: Supporting families and increasing access to care for early intervention and treatment Support more children with anxiety problems and their families without compromising treatment quality or patient satisfaction. Learn more about a NICE EVA recommended, CBT-based intervention developed by leading experts at the Universities of Oxford and Reading and offered by Koa Health. James de Bathe, Head of NHS Sales and Anna Mandeville, UK Clinical Director, Koa Health
10.40	Questions and answers with your sponsors
10.50	Meet your industry partners
11.00	Screen break
Benchmarking services
11.10	Case study: Shared learning and outcomes from working in a CWP service Shared experiences of the CWP role and investigating how the service operates Effectively navigating working in alternative settings and ensuring safe working How to enable collaborative working and decision making with your patient and family Ebru San Primitivo Rodriguez, CBT Therapist and Niamh Brannigan, Trainee CBT Therapist, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
11.40	Questions and answers with your speakers
11.50	Interactive discussion: Shared learning and benchmarking your professional experiences Where are you working? Where are you based? How do you effectively manage your time? What does your team look like? What steps would you like to take to improve your practice?
12.10	Interactive discussion feedback: Shared learning and benchmarking your professional experiences
12.20	Case study: Developing the CWP role at Hounslow C-CAMHS Exploring the referral pathway and patient groups: what does our CWP role look like? Investigating how to work within the community and voluntary sectors to improve outcomes for YP Understanding which specialist locations are most beneficial to the service and workforce Molly Murphy, Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner, Hounslow Community CAMHS Team, West London NHS Trust
12.50	Questions and answers with your speaker
1.00	Lunch break
CWPs in different settings
1.40	Enabling a community way of working to meeting national targets Understanding the move towards community settings: what is the national objective? Practical skills to enable you to work within community settings to manage your time effectively Connecting with wider services and making links with other services to enhance your service Kirsty McNeilis, Specialist Lecturer, Lead Tutor and Unit Lead – CYWP, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
2.10	Questions and answers with your speaker
2.20	Interactive discussion: How to meet national initiatives to put care in the community? What setting are you working in? What does community working look like compared to working within a CAMHS team? What challenges would you expect to encounter in a community setting? How would you overcome them?
2.40	Interactive discussion feedback: How to meet national initiatives to put care in the community?
2.50	Screen break
3.00	Exploring the CWP role in a hospital setting to support young people with physical health diagnosis Investigating the move from a CAMHS teams to a hospital setting: what changes? Working across multi-specialty conditions to support young people with physical diagnosis Additional responsibilities and opportunities of a CYWP role in physical health Chloe Booth, Children and Young People’s Well-Being Practitioner (CYWP), Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
3.30	Questions and answers with Chloe Booth
3.40	Interactive discussion: Developing and embedding the CWP role into mental health charities How has your service implemented a community referral system? How does your role support the community? What lessons have you learnt by working in community settings? How are you supported and supervised in your role? How would you like to see this developed?
4.00	Interactive discussion feedback: Developing and embedding the CWP role into mental health charities
4.10	Closing remarks and close of day

With thanks to the expert speakers

Kirsty McNeilis

Specialist Lecturer, Lead Tutor and Unit Lead, CYWP

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Michelle Rudd

Transformation Lead for Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Hsin-Ping Wang

Lead CBT Practitioner

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

 Sam Lane

Senior Product Manager

SilverCloud by Amwell

Natalie Bates

Sales Director

SilverCloud by Amwell

Deborah Howarth

Sales Director

SilverCloud by Amwell

James de Bathe

Head of NHS Sales

Koa Health

Anna Mandeville

UK Clinical Director

Koa Health

Ebru San Primitivo Rodriguez

CBT Therapist

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Niamh Brannigan

Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Molly Murphy

Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner

Hounslow Community CAMHS Team, West London NHS Trust

Chloe Booth

Children and Young People’s Well-Being Practitioner (CYWP)

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Who came?

This online training event was designed to meet the needs of all Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner experience levels, from training right up to senior leadership. Attendees included but was not limited to:

Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners and Senior Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners
Team Leads and Service Managers from CAMHS and CWP teams
CAMHS Team Leads and Service Managers

Past attendee feedback

Talking Therapies National Networking Forums has delivered CPD training for over 15 years. The most recent forum for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, the PWP National Networking Forum, took place online in April 2024 and was very well received. Reviews include:

“Very inspiring, great to have some time just to think about career direction, and not just about getting through the day and a long list of appointments”

- NHS Barnsley Talking Therapies

“Thank you and well done, it was great!”

- NHS Nottinghamshire Talking Therapies

“Great to have a big coming together from all over UK”

- Birmingham Healthy Minds

“The forum has been really interesting and explored some key issues within the PWP role”

- Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies

"Really useful topics covered, great speakers who shared a lot of passion and insight"

- Blackpool Talking Therapies

"Found the day informative, particularly around preceptorships and job crafting"

- Steps to Wellbeing Southampton

With thanks to our sponsors

SilverCloud is a leading provider of evidence-based digital mental and behavioural healthcare solutions. Supporting 80% of NHS Talking Therapies Services, with up to 70% clinical recovery rates.

Global mental health services provider, Koa Health's digitally-enabled therapies to support PTSD, child anxiety, and Social Anxiety Disorder in adolescents and adults were developed in partnership with the Universities of Oxford and Reading and are available through select NHS services.

Why sponsor a Talking Therapies National Networking Forum

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Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact:

Vanessa Pearce
Contact: 01732 897788
Email: vanessa.pearce@sbk-events.co.uk