Job summary
The Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for 2 CAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner for GP in the East of Berkshire (Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme - ARRS) join our Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) to enhance joint working across primary care and the network of emotional wellbeing and mental health services.
To enable robust access to clinical supervision, professional development and to facilitate recruitment and retention, we will seek to recruit two staff to roles that are shared across the PCN and locality Getting Help or Mental Health in Schools Team. Post holders will spend 2.5 days in the PCN and 2.5 days in the identified CAMHS Team.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of and contribute to a newly developed and innovative service. This is an important post, at the interface with partner agencies and specialist CAMHS. The posts require enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals who are passionate about delivering duty interventions and contributing to team working. If you have a 'can do' attitude and are quality focused then we would love to hear from you.
The post holder will be an integral part of this team, holding a small caseload of Getting Help level cases accepted via triage and assessment in their PCN role. The PCN Clinical Director will be responsible for ensuring that the practices within the PCN are aware of the role and allocate the resource across the PCN footprint.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an experienced child and adolescent mental health practitioner who will work as part of the PCN MDT to deliver the following:
- Clinical triage and assessment of patients requesting appointments for mental health issues including challenging behaviour. This includes same day appointments and planned appointments
- Signpost/navigate to other sources of information and local support including peer support, social prescribers, VSCE services e.g. youth counselling, youth workers, GEMS; within the Thrive framework/stepped care approach
- Identify any onward referral pathways and make appropriate referrals, undertaking screening and ensuring provision of required information to support the referra
- Help people to develop coping strategies and draw on their own strengths and resource
- Liaise with CAMHS to enable crisis support and admission avoidance where necessary
- Facilitate appropriate representation in practice-based MDT's to support clinical management of identified patients
- Provide specialist advice to GP's and other members of the MDT on the particular needs of children and young people and their families including advice on symptoms, risk or the need for a referral.
About us
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust isa 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.
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 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
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
- Free parking across Trust sites
Job description
Job responsibilities
The 4 must haves for this role:
- 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 site
If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and lets be outstanding together.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to email: Vicki Livingstone on [email protected] wholl be delighted to help.
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.
Interviews will be held on 22nd -Feb -2024
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Qualification in appropriate mental health core profession. i.e./ relevant professional qualification as defined by BABCP
- Registration with relevant UK governing body (HCPC/UKPC/BABCP/Social Work England/NMC).
- Qualification in therapeutic approaches with children and families/Specialist training in skills relevant to child & adolescent mental health e.g. CYP IAPT Dip in CBT/SFP/IPT-A/Parenting
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant professional body.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in CYP mental health services
- Skills and experience of working with children, young people and families around a range of emotional/mental health, behavioural/additional health/developmental needs
- Ability to meet agreed /specified service targets
- Ability to manage competing demands / manage a caseload
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
- Experience of running / co-running groups.
- Experience of supervising others
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with clients with mental health problems
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
- Ability to teach and train others.
Additional Requirements
Essential
- A positive approach to working with children and young people with mental health difficulties.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Willingness to work flexibly.
- An awareness of own strengths and limitations.
- Ability to travel between sites and to locality meetings.
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Address
CAMHS ARRS East, 25 Windsor Road
Slough, Berkshire
SL1 2EL