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Child and Family Mental Health Worker

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Reading

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GBP 25,000 - 35,000

Part time

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Job summary

A specialist mental health services trust is seeking a Child and Family Mental Health Worker to support young people in crisis. This role involves providing brief interventions and working closely with families and multi-agency partners. The position offers both full-time and part-time options, with comprehensive training and ongoing support.

Benefits

Flexible working options
27 days annual leave
Generous NHS pension scheme
Career development opportunities
Free parking across Trust sites

Qualifications

  • Experience working with young people who have mental health needs.
  • Ability to manage risk and support in crisis situations.
  • Familiarity with multi-agency collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Provide brief interventions for young people in crisis.
  • Liaise with multi-agency partners for comprehensive care.
  • Support parents/carers with advice and psychoeducation.

Skills

Skills in working with young people
Transferable skills in mental health

Job description

Interview will be held on 15th August 2025

Do you want to work with young people and families and have transferable skills to work with complex mental health needs? We have an exciting opportunity to work for a Trust that is rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC.

We are seeking a Child and Family Mental Health Worker working within the CAMHS Rapid Response Intensive Treatment Team. The CAMHS Rapid Response Team delivers high-quality mental health assessments and short-term interventions to young people experiencing mental health crisis. Our service is essential in responding to and supporting young people and adolescents presenting in crisis in the community. It is an exciting time to join Rapid Response as we are developing our service. This role will offer intensive short-term intervention to young people and their families, while receiving supervision and support from senior Clinicians.

We welcome applicants who have skills (or transferable skills) in working with young people with mental health needs and have ideally also worked with their parents/carers.

We offer regular supportive supervision and mentoring, to help you develop and feel confident/supported in this role.

We can consider both full time (37.5 hours per week) and part-time applications.

  • You will provide brief interventions for young people who have presented in crisis where it is identified that additional intensive interventions are required, especially to avoid placement breakdown or admission to an adolescent mental health hospital, or residential care.
  • You will be working with young people who may have self-harmed and/or expressed suicidal thoughts. You will therefore need to be aware of risk identification and management (with support of a case-holding Clinician).
  • You will work with parents/carer of the young people in crisis (where clinically indicated) offering support, advice and psychoeducation.
  • You will work with the young person to ensure they are heard, validated and their needs are understood.
  • You will play an important key role in liaising with multi-agency partners to ensure the young person's needs are communicated and all agencies work collaboratively together.
  • You will work closely with the wider Children and Adolescent’s Mental Health services in Berkshire as well as local authority, education colleagues and other services/agencies as required.
  • You will be supported, guided and supervised by senior Clinicians in the team.
  • You will receive training to enable you to offer interventions such as DBT skills (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy skills), to enable you to support young people to develop emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emily Perrin Job title: Team Lead - CAMHS Rapid Response Email address: Emily.Perrin@Berkshire.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07815485196
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