Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS ARRS East
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 371-TAP-CFS205
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CAMHS ARRS East
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 £37,162 to £44,629 per annum (Incl. of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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CAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner for GP - Primary Care
Band 6
Job overview
Are you a registered Nurse, Social Worker or Allied Health professional looking for a new CAMHS role? Can you build positive relationships with our GP colleagues? Would you be passionate in shaping the way Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust rolls out a new service across Berkshire?
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Getting Help Team in a new Band 6 Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) position.
As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner you will share your time between Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust and the Langley GP Surgery in Slough.
At the surgery, you’ll screen and assess young people needing help with mental health and quickly enable the support they need. We’ve agreed longer appointment times with protected time for notes/follow up. You’ll develop positive relationships and assist with CAMHS referrals.
Within Berkshire Healthcare, you will work on your own therapeutic caseload as an integral part of our Getting Help team. The team are based in Slough, with some flexibility to work from home. There is excellent clinical supervision and peer support, plus opportunities for development and learning in specialist areas.
You’ll have a flexible attitude and openness to improvement. It’s a chance to shape the new service rollout through your constructive feedback and initiative. This is a great opportunity for a mental health professional with experience working with children, young people, and families in mental health settings.
The role will initially be recruited as a 12 month fixed term contract or an internal secondment. We can consider full time or part time (from a minimum of 30 hours per week).
Main duties of the job
· Review requests for planned appointments and undertake a structured face to face or telephone/digital screening to determine the mental health needs of the child or young person.
· To formulate the primary presenting needs and difficulties of the young person, making appropriate judgments that best improve the treatment outcomes for the child, young person and their families’ as well as improve resilience and recovery and which mitigates risk to themselves or others.
· Consider a range of options regarding treatment interventions, providing them with specialised advice concerning care when appropriate and liaising with GPs and providers of emotional wellbeing and mental health services within the locality.
· Offer brief psychosocial interventions as needed e.g sleep hygiene, stress management, building resilience and self-esteem, coping strategies, behavioural activation.
· To make referrals to the most appropriate community or secondary care services – bridging the gap between primary care services and other community mental health support
· Provide specialist advice to GP’s and other members of the MDT on the particular needs of children and young people and their families.
· Attend and contribute to multi-agency meetings.
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. Hear what our people say about working for our CAMHS service: https://bit.ly/CAMHS]
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
- Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
1. A professional qualification and registration e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Worker or other recognised body. 2. Experience in working with young people with mental health difficulties. 3. Ability to liaise positively with external partners and enthusiasm for multi-professional and multi-agency working.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply. If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact Catherine Moulds on [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
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Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Qualification in appropriate mental health core profession. i.e./ relevant professional qualification as defined by BABCP
- Registration with relevant UK governing body (HCPC/UKPC/BABCP/Social Work England/NMC).
- Qualification in therapeutic approaches with children and families/Specialist training in skills relevant to child & adolescent mental health e.g. CYP IAPT Dip in CBT/SFP/IPT-A/Parenting
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant professional body
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working in CYP mental health services
- Skills and experience of working with children, young people and families around a range of emotional/mental health, behavioural/additional health/developmental needs
- Ability to meet agreed /specified service targets
- Ability to manage competing demands / manage a caseload
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
- Experience of running / co-running groups
- Experience of supervising others
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with clients with mental health problems
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
- Ability to teach and train others
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- A positive approach to working with children and young people with mental health difficulties.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Willingness to work flexibly
- An awareness of own strengths and limitations
- Ability to travel between sites and to locality meetings
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Catherine Moulds
- Job title
- Talent Acquisition Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07890 611 185
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