Advanced Mental Health Practitioner – Children in Care

Are you an experienced RGN or Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist looking for a new challenge?
Are you passionate about supporting vulnerable children by working alongside other services to get the best outcome?
We are looking for an Advanced Mental Health Practitioner to join us for a 12 month FCT.
The CAMHS CiC is established to ensure that children who are in care receive quicker access to mental health support. We do this by working in partnership and sharing knowledge, to effectively meet theirs and their carers needs by providing evidenced based interventions.
In this role, you will be working in a trauma-informed model across multiple agencies and services. You will support in:

• Trauma informed care
• Creating stability of the Child or Young person’s home placement
• Maintaining relationships with family members
• Reaching as high as possible Education achievements
• Creating local social networks and fostering strong relationships
  This is a unique opportunity to be part of and contribute to a newly developing and innovative service. You will receive direct clinical supervision from an experienced Clinical Psychologist as well as having the opportunity to gain experience in mentalisation-based approaches as well as systemic ways of working.
  These posts support the interface with partner agencies and specialist CAMHS.

• Consultation - offering advice, information and support to young people, carers, and professionals
• Providing Training to carers and professionals
• Clinical assessments for young people.
• High and low intensity, evidence-based therapeutic interventions (individual, group, family, as appropriate)
• Joint working with partner agencies, including Mental Health Support Teams, Early Help, Youth Offending Teams, other Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
• Use of routine outcome measures to promote active participation from young people and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions
• Supervision, as appropriate to role
  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