Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Advanced Mental Health Practitioner
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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 Berkshire?
This is an exciting opportunity to join our specialised Berkshire CAMHS Link team as an Advanced Mental Health Practitioner. This is an 18 month fixed term contract post for 22.5 hours per week. The post is based at Erlegh House in Reading and will support delivery of high quality trauma informed systemic care to children and young people across Berkshire.
The role requires a confident and experienced mental health professional who can demonstrate both experience of working with and a genuine interest in the health and wellbeing of children and young people with complex needs. They will be well organised, have excellent communication and clinical leadership skills, and be familiar with the demands and working environments of Social Care, Health, Education and other partner agency settings.
You will need to have a recognised professional registration and demonstrable experience working within Children and Young People’s mental health services.
Responsibilities
- To deliver a high-quality trauma-informed mental health service to children and young people across Berkshire.
- 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
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About Berkshire Healthcare
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.
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- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Benefits
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
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Karen Jacobs
- Job title: CAMHS Berkshire Link Team Manager (inc CIC & H&J)
- Email address: Karen.Jacobs@berkshire.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07823551367
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