A Vacancy at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity foraCAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner for GPin the East of Berkshire(Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme - ARRS) to 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 within the locality, improving patient journeys and making it easier for children, young people and their families to obtain the help they need.To enable robust access to clinical supervision, professional development and tofacilitaterecruitment 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 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 willbe responsible forensuring that the practices within the PCN are aware of the role andallocatethe resource across the PCN footprint.
• 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.
• Identifyany onward referral pathways and makeappropriate referrals, undertaking screening and ensuring provision of required information to support the referral
• Help people to develop coping strategies and draw on their own strengths and resources
• Liaise with CAMHS to enable crisis support and admission avoidance where necessary
• Facilitateappropriate representationin practice-basedMDT’sto support clinical management ofidentifiedpatients
• Providespecialist advice to GP’s and other members of the MDT on theparticular needsof children and young people and their families including advice on symptoms,riskor the need for a referral.
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
The4“must haves” for this role:
1. Experience of working with young people with mental health difficulties
1. Passion for providing collaborative and evidence-based mental health care
1. Enthusiasm for multi-professional and multi-agency working
1. Ability to travel between multiple sites
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’recommitted 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. Pleasedon’thesitate tocontactVicki Livingstone 07557458788, and/or Rhona Edwards, Team Lead - Getting Help and Mental Health Support Teams in WAM (01628 683800) who’llbe 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 pleasesubmityour application as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Mar 2025
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