Advanced Mental Health Practitioner – Children in Care

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Wokingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Wokingham seeks an Advanced Mental Health Practitioner to support vulnerable children in care. This role involves collaboration with multiple services to ensure timely mental health support. You will provide direct clinical supervision and work within a trauma-informed model. The ideal candidate has experience with young people's mental health and is passionate about evidence-based care. Flexible working options and generous leave are offered.

Benefits

Flexible working options

27 days' annual leave

Excellent learning and career development opportunities

'Cycle to Work' scheme

Access to wellbeing tools

Discounts at retailers and restaurants

Generous leave policies

Free parking across Trust sites

Qualifications

• Experience of working with young people with mental health difficulties.
• Passion for providing collaborative and evidence-based mental health care.
• Ability to travel between multiple sites.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultation and support to young people, carers, and professionals.
• Conduct clinical assessments and deliver therapeutic interventions.
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies.

Skills

Mental Health Care

Multi-disciplinary Collaboration

Clinical Assessment

Therapeutic Interventions

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse / Social Worker / Occupational Therapist

Registration with NMC/HCPC

Supervisory Qualification

Tools

Clinical Governance

IT Skills

Job description

Advanced Mental Health Practitioner – Children in Care

Are you an experienced RGN or Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist looking for a new challenge?

Are you passionate about supporting vulnerable children by working alongside other services to get the best outcome?

We are looking for an Advanced Mental Health Practitioner to join us for a 12 month FCT.

The CAMHS CiC is established to ensure that children who are in care receive quicker access to mental health support. We do this by working in partnership and sharing knowledge, to effectively meet theirs and their carers needs by providing evidenced based interventions.

In this role you will be working in a trauma informed model across multiple agencies and services. You will support in; trauma informed care, Creating stability of the Child or Young person's home placement, maintaining relationships with family members, reaching as high as possible Education achievements, creating local social networks and fostering strong relationships.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of and contribute to a newly developing and innovative service. You will receive direct clinical supervision from an experienced Clinical Psychologist as well as having the opportunity to gain experience in mentalisation based approaches as well as systemic ways of working.

These posts supports the interface with partner agencies and specialist CAMHS.

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, asappropriate)

Joint working with partner agencies, including Mental Health Support Teams, Early Help, Youth Offending Teams, otherChildand Adolescent Mental Health Services

Use of routine outcome measures to promote active participation from young people and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions

Supervision, asappropriate torole

About us

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 are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the 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
• 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

Job responsibilities

Themust haves for this role:

Qualified experience of working with young people with mental health difficulties

Passion for providing collaborative and evidence-based mental health care

Enthusiasm for multi-professional and multi-agency working

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.

Werecommitted to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Pleasedonthesitate to call:Jenny Murrayon07966401529or email:[e-mail] delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so pleasesubmityour application as soon as possible.

Applications for this role will be reviewed as they are received. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications/Training

• Recognised and relevant qualification as below: Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Social Worker or Occupational Therapist Or Speech and Language Therapist
• Registration with NMC or HCPC or other recognised professional body
• A supervisory qualification in the relevant professional discipline.

Previous Experience

• Significant post-qualifying experience of undertaking comprehensive assessment of mental health needs, developing care plans and offering appropriate support based on 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
• 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

• 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

• 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.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

CAMHS Children in Care East , Wokingham Hospital

£50,008 to £56,908 a yearper annum ( Incl of HCAS)

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time

Reference number

371-TAP-CFS605

Job locations

CAMHS Children in Care East , Wokingham Hospital