Advanced Mental Health Practitioner – Children in Care | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Wokingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist mental health services provider is looking for an experienced nurse, social worker, or occupational therapist to support vulnerable children. The role involves working within a trauma-informed model and across multiple agencies to provide effective mental health interventions. Applicants should have a passion for evidence-based care and experience working with young people. Benefits include flexible working hours, generous leave, and professional development opportunities, making it a rewarding position in a compassionate environment.

Benefits

Flexible working options

27 days’ annual leave

Generous NHS pension scheme

Excellent learning opportunities

Cycle to Work scheme

Discounts at retailers

Free parking across Trust sites

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultation and support to young people and families.
• Conduct clinical assessments and deliver evidence-based interventions.
• Work with partner agencies to enhance mental health support.
• Supervise and train other professionals as appropriate.

Skills

RGN or Mental Health Nurse experience

Qualified experience with young people

Collaborative mental health care

Multi-professional working

Ability to travel

Job description

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?

The CAMHS CiC is established to ensure that children who are in care receive quicker access to mental health support. We do thisby 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.

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.

• 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

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
• 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

The “must 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.

We’re committed 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. Please don’t hesitate to call: Jenny Murray on 07966401529 or email: [e-mail] who’ll be 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 please submit your application as soon as possible.

This advert closes on Friday 19 Dec 2025