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 West Berkshire?
There is an opportunity to join our specialist CAMHS Health and Justice Team for a 12 month fixed term contract.
You will need to have a recognised professional registration and demonstrable experience working within Children and Young People’s mental health services.
You will engage with a network of multi-agency professionals and processes, working alongside the Youth Justice Teams in West Berkshire.
There will be excellent in-house induction, high quality supervision and training opportunities including working alongside other highly skilled teams – for example opportunities to work with forensic CAMHS.
You will spend time every week visiting the three local authorities we work closely with. Otherwise, you will be based at our Erleigh Road office with the flexibility to work from home.
We are interested to hear from applicants at Band 6 and Band 7 level. We are considering full time and part time applicants for this role.
- To deliver a high-quality mental health service to young people known to Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham YJTs.
- To provide specialist assessment and therapy, offer consultation on clients’ care to non-clinical colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously 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 work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of clinical practice within the YJTs.
- 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.
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 further details / informal visits contact: Name: Liudmila Knowles Job title: CAMHS Berkshire Link Team Manage Email address: liudmila.knowles@berkshire.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01189046780
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