Senior Mental Health Practitioner – Children in Care | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,162 - £44,629 per annum (Incl of HCAS) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Wokingham, RG41 2RE |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6236767/371-CFS198-A |
Summary
Staff will be working with in Bracknell, Slough and Windsor & Maidenhead alongside Local Authority teams who are working with CiC.
The CiC is being established to ensure that children who are in care receive quicker access to mental health support, by working in partnership and sharing knowledge, we hope to effectively meet the needs of children and young people in care and their carers by providing evidenced based interventions that meet their need.
The service aims to improve life chances of Children in Care, by working towards increasing these resiliency factors:
• Supporting trauma informed care
• Creating stability of the Child or Young person’s home placement
• CYP able to maintain a relationship with family members and work to be re-united where that is possible
• Fostering as strong an attachment as possible with the CYP foster carers or adults responsible for their care (if in a residential setting)
• Reaching as high as possible Education achievements
• Creating local social networks, forming positive and meaningful relationships with peers and other adults
This is a unique opportunity to be part of and contribute to a newly developing and innovative service. These posts supports the interface with partner agencies and specialist CAMHS.
• Consultation - offering advice, information and support to young people, carers, and professionals
• Supporting training to carers and professionals
• Clinical assessments for young people.
• Supporting with 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
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.
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
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 sites
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and let’s be outstanding together.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Matthew Prouseon 07775852630 or email: matthew.prouse@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll 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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 8 May 2024
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