Children and Young People's Emotional and Counselling Wellbeing Service

The Service will be required to develop and deliver a service which is underpinned by the following key objectives: To provide and maintain an independent, free, accessible and confidential emotional wellbeing and counselling service that will support personal wellbeing and promote good mental health amongst young people aged 10 - 25 years who live in Tameside. To deliver a service that is evidence based.

To align service delivery to the THRIVE Framework. To reflect the needs of local young people as well as the national strategic context.

To ensure the needs of particular vulnerable groups and groups covered under the core equality strands are met; e.g. young people who self-harm, have body image issues, feel bullied, need sexual health and gender-specific support, Young people with learning disabilities/difficulties, looked after children. To continually develop through co-design with Service Users, their families, and specialist local service providers.

To develop a whole system approach that encompasses a universal and targeted service e.g. on-line and face to face support, or a combination of both. To work in close partnership with Healthy Young Minds, the Adult Mental Health Service (Healthy Minds Service) and the community/ 3rd sector offer to ensure smooth transition/ step up and step down of young people to and from specialist provision.

To collect relevant patient information to inform activity and outcomes, and submit on a monthly basis to the Mental Health Services Data Set. To contribute to the improvement of the emotional wellbeing and resilience of Tameside young people aged 10 - 25 years