Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS - T4 Hospital at Home Service
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CFS481-A
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CAMHS- T4 hospital at home service, Wokingham Hospital
- Town
- Wokingham
- Salary
- £31,469 - £38,308 per annum ( Incl of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/05/2025
Employer heading
CAMHS Community Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has risen for CAMHS Phoenix to recruit two Band 5 staff nurses, to join our well-established multidisciplinary team to support young people in crisis.
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of nursing care, and activities to support therapeutic care plans, for young people referred to the Berkshire CAMHS Tier 4 Alternative to Hospital admission (Day Hospital) and Home Treatment. The service, based at CAMHS Phoenix on the Wokingham Community Hospital site, is a hospital at home and home treatment service that provides evidence based psychiatric, nursing, and therapeutic interventions for young people under the age of 18 presenting with severe and complex mental health difficulties assessed as requiring Tier 4 level care, including where these disorders are co-morbid with neurodevelopmental diagnoses:
• Serious risk of harm to self; suicidal thoughts and behaviour
• Emotional dysregulation and symptoms that would be best described as emerging unstable personality disorder
• Eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa
• ARFID and disordered eating in the context of emotional dysregulation, trauma, and other mental disorder.
• Low mood, depressive disorder
• Early onset psychosis
• Severe OCD, complex PTSD
• Other psychological disturbance that may adversely affect functioning but falls outside typical diagnostic criteria.
Main duties of the job
- To work with children and adolescents and their families and/or carers providing support, education, family work and evidence based interventions aimed towards promoting recovery. You will work with people in a service which aims to work with other agencies including primary care to raise awareness of mental ill health and to reduce the length of time people remain untreated.
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate a nursing care plan for young people and their families referred as either home treatment patients or day patients. Specialist knowledge of the following is required, the mental health problems of young people, child development, physical development, the management of risk in young people, the management of harm to self or others.
- To work with young people and their families / carers in various environments including the home environments, care settings, community settings and clinical settings in order to provide clinically assessed and evidence-based and individualised interventions as determined by the care plan for the young person
- To provide and be accountable for advice to the multi-disciplinary team and others relating to their area of practice/specialism.
- Responsible for following clinical governance rules and risk management
- To work in partnership with other colleagues across the Trust to deliver an integrated service that facilitates the wellbeing and recovery of service users.
Working for our organisation
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 SECONDMENT ROLES ONLY - If the secondment role becomes permanent, the successful candidate may be offered the permanent position.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The 4 “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:
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Registered Mental Health Nurse and or another appropriate registered nurse training e.g Paediatric Nurse / Children’s Nurse / Learning Disability.
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To be able to demonstrate ongoing professional development.
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A willingness to develop skills and knowledge in working with patients with an eating disorder and or Emotional Dysregulation
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Ability to travel independently and efficiently to deliver clinical care from multiple sites including service user homes.
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: Majid Nazari, Team Manager on 07920767875 or Rebecca Martin, Clinical Nurse Specialist on 07342068975 during the office hours, 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.
Interview will be held on 7th May 2025
The service will operate from 8am-8pm Mon-Fri; 9am-5pm Sat, Sun & Bank holiday’s (365 days per year). The post holder will be required to work shifts across these hours. You will be a member of the Community CAMHS Hospital at Home Service and is expected to work in various locations within its hours of operation as set out in its operational policy.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse and or another appropriate registered nurse training e.g. RMN / Children’s Nurse / Learning Disability
- To be prepared to undertake preceptorship as per trust if appropriate
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post registration development.
Training
Essential criteria
- To be able to demonstrate ongoing professional development.
Previous Experience
Desirable criteria
- Six months post qualifying experience.
- Experience of supervising junior staff
- To have experience of working with young people.
- To have had experience of working with parents / carers and families and to be able to verbalise your approach.
- To have had experience of working in groups with adolescents and to be able to describe the approach. To be able to plan a group in collaboration with others
- To have had experience of working individually with a young person and to be able to describe your approach.
- To be able to plan individual work and make use of supervision in relation to your work.
Knowledge , Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- A willingness to develop skills and knowledge in working with patients with an eating disorder and or Emotional Dysregulation
- An ability to be able to work alongside an adolescent referred to the service and show an ability to verbalise your approach
- To be able to communicate effectively with other professionals about issues relating to patients care. To communicate complex and sensitive information to young people and families
- To have knowledge of safeguarding issues as they would relate to young people referred to this service
- To have knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and Gillick Competency principles in relation to consent
- Ability to organise and prioritise effectively
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
- Good communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to supervise and develop staff
- Ability to use initiative and make decisions
- Ability to travel independently and efficiently to deliver clinical care from multiple sites including service user homes.
Desirable criteria
- An ability to take part in an assessment of a young person and to be able to develop a formulation of their problems.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Majid Nazari
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Telephone number
- 07920767875
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