About the Role
Are you an experienced Mental Health professional wanting to work within a supportive specialist CAMHS team? Will you thrive working within a multi-disciplinary system to provide a high quality mental health service to young people in West Berkshire? There is an opportunity to join our specialised CAMHS Children in Care Team as an Advanced Mental Health Practitioner. You will need to have a recognised professional registration and demonstrable experience working within Children and Young People’s mental health services.
You will be knowledgeable and experienced in working with families and systems to meet the needs of the young people in their care is also essential. There will be excellent in-house induction, high quality supervision and training opportunities including working alongside other highly skilled teams – for example opportunities to work with forensic CAMHS. You will be based at our Erleigh House office.
- To deliver a high-quality trauma-informed mental health service to looked after children and young people of Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham Local authorities.
- To deliver interventions that are systemic in nature and develop the professional family network to support them to work therapeutically with the young people in their care.
- To provide specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions, offer consultation on children’s care to non-clinical colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- To work in a trauma informed way. This means facilitating and collaborating in multiagency formulation meetings, devising multiagency intervention plans and offering ongoing supervision and coaching to professionals so that interventions are therapeutic, streamlined and developmentally appropriate for the young person.
- To utilise research skills to contribute to audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team.
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. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported 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
- 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
For further details / informal visits contact:
Liudmila Knowles – CAMHS Berkshire Link Team Manager – Email: liudm – Phone:
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