Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS East Children in Care
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Hours between 9.00 - 5.00 Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 371-TAP-CFS196
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CAMHS East Children in Care, Wokingham Hospital
- Town
- Wokingham
- Salary
- £45,753 - £52,067 per annum, pro rata (Incl of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Mental Health Practitioner – Children in Care
Band 7
Job overview
Are you a Social Worker, CAMHS Nurse or Qualified Therapist looking for a change?
Would you like to be a part of something new and innovative?
Are you keen to develop your career with a group of likeminded professionals?
There is an exciting opportunity within our newly established and developing Children in Care team. Grounded in a strengths-based, trauma informed approach, the team strive to embed positive partnerships with key adults and networks to improve the outcomes for young people in care.
Under the supervision of an experienced clinical psychologist, you will provide tailored, needs-led support based on psychologically informed formulations and systemically delivered interventions.
You’ll work with young people, families, local authorities and partner agencies online and in person to understand and respond to the unique needs of young people in care. Therefore, previous experience of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties and complex needs is essential.
This flexible, part time and permanent role is based at our Wokingham office, with some work in the community. Working hours are 22.5 hours per week between 09:00 – 17:00 Monday to Friday.
As a service we are very committed to the development of our staff and can offer both internal & external training and development opportunities with this role.
Main duties of the job
- Consultation - offering advice, information and support to young people, carers, and professionals
- Providing Training to carers and professionals
- Clinical assessments for young people.
- High and low intensity, evidence-based therapeutic interventions (individual, group, family, as appropriate)
- Joint working with partner agencies, including Mental Health Support Teams, Early Help, Youth Offending Teams, other Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Use of routine outcome measures to promote active participation from young people and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions
- Supervision, as appropriate to role
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 of working for us 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
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
- Free parking across Trust site
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
1. A recognised and relevant qualification in relevant core profession e.g. Registered Social Worker, Registered Mental Health Nurse, OT, SLT, Qualified Family Therapist, Psychotherapist or Psychologist.
2. Registration with the relevant recognised professional body, e.g.: Social Work England, NMC, HCPC.
3. Experience of working with young people with mental health difficulties and complex needs.
4. Ability to travel between multiple sites.
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 call: Matthew Prouse on 07775852630 or email [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
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Recognised and relevant qualification as : Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Social Worker or Qualified Systemic Family Therapist Masters level or Qualified Psychotherapist or Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or Occupational Therapist Or Speech and Language Therapist
- Registration with NMC or HCPC or other recognised professional body
Desirable criteria
- A supervisory qualification in the relevant professional discipline.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post-qualifying experience of undertaking comprehensive assessment of mental health needs, developing care plans and offering appropriate support based on psychological formulation of presenting difficulties.
- Experience of working with service users with high risk presentations and undertaking risk assessment and risk management plans.
- Experience of hard-to-reach diverse community groups and individuals with emerging complex needs, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and safeguarding.
- Experience of working effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency environment
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within mental health settings supporting children, adolescents and their families.
- Experience of providing supervision or leadership to others.
- Experience of contributing to service improvement initiatives.
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and skill to assess acute mental health crisis, and deliberate self-harm at Getting Risk/Tier 3 levels.
- Demonstrates up to date knowledge of legislation and National strategies and requirements for CAMHS
- 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.
- Ability to motivate and inspire others and to support others to develop key competencies.
- 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.
- Ability to take clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment.
- Ability to work to timescales and comfortably cope in pressurised situations, applying practical problem solving skills in everyday and complex situations
- Ability to work autonomously and effectively in a team, reprioritising work and that of others work to reflect changing needs.
- Competent IT skills and the ability to navigate around various systems and software packages (such as outlook, databases, e.g. RiO MS office and internet
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability and willingness to work in a flexible way including working outside of normal hours to facilitate out of hours clinics as required.
- Able to maintain professional boundaries and conduct.
- Supportive approach towards colleagues and service users.
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated team player.
- Able to negotiate, be confident and assertive.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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]
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