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Are you a registered Nurse, Social Worker or Allied Health professional looking for a new CAMHS role?  Can you build positive relationships with our GP colleagues? Would you be passionate in shaping the way Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust rolls out a new service across Berkshire? 

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Getting Help Team in a new Band 6 Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) position.

As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner you will share your time between Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust and the Langley GP Surgery in Slough. 

At the surgery, you’ll screen and assess young people needing help with mental health and quickly enable the support they need.  We’ve agreed longer appointment times with protected time for notes/follow up.  You’ll develop positive relationships and assist with CAMHS referrals. 

Within Berkshire Healthcare, you will work on your own therapeutic caseload as an integral part of our Getting Help team. The team are based in Slough, with some flexibility to work from home.  There is excellent clinical supervision and peer support, plus opportunities for development and learning in specialist areas. 

You’ll have a flexible attitude and openness to improvement. It’s a chance to shape the new service rollout through your constructive feedback and initiative. This is a great opportunity for a mental health professional with experience working with children, young people, and families in mental health settings.

The role will initially be recruited as a 12 month fixed term contract or an internal secondment. We can consider full time or part time (from a minimum of 30 hours per week).

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

·       Review requests for planned appointments and undertake a structured face to face or telephone/digital screening to determine the mental health needs of the child or young person.

·       To formulate the primary presenting needs and difficulties of the young person, making appropriate judgments that best improve the treatment outcomes for the child, young person and their families’ as well as improve resilience and recovery and which mitigates risk to themselves or others.

·       Consider a range of options regarding treatment interventions, providing them with specialised advice concerning care when appropriate and liaising with GPs and providers of emotional wellbeing and mental health services within the locality.

·       Offer brief psychosocial interventions as needed e.g sleep hygiene, stress management, building resilience and self-esteem, coping strategies, behavioural activation.

·       To make referrals to the most appropriate community or secondary care services – bridging the gap between primary care services and other community mental health support

·       Provide specialist advice to GP’s and other members of the MDT on the particular needs of children and young people and their families.

·       Attend and contribute to multi-agency meetings.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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. Hear what our people say about working for our CAMHS service: https://bit.ly/CAMHS]

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:

•            Caring for and about you is our top priority

•            Committed to providing good quality, safe services

•            Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

Benefits 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

Berkshire Healthcare helps people manage their health in their local area, through a range of specialist and community services across the county. We promote independence and quality of life through community and mental health services and aim for seamless delivery of the best care in the right place. We get to know communities and the people in them so we can deliver the best services that meet their health needs.

Our team of 4,300 staff provide specialist mental health and community health services to a population of around 900,000 within Berkshire. We provide healthcare to people in their own homes and from different sites across the county.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information.

Please ensure your application is submitted with a valid email address for your referees in order to minimise delays in the recruitment process. Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email, therefore applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly.

Applicants are advised that as a result of the high level of response we receive for some of our vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date.

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.

No agencies to contact Berkshire Healthcare directly please.