CAMHS Community Nurse | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,469 - £38,308 per annum ( Incl of HCAS) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2025 |
| Location: | Wokingham, RG41 2RE |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7256497/371-CFS481-D |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has risen for CAMHS Phoenix to recruit a Band 5 staff nurse,to join ourwell-establishedmultidisciplinary teamto support young people incrisis.
The post holder will be responsible forthe assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of nursing care, and activities to support therapeutic care plans, for young people referred to the Berkshire CAMHS Tier 4Alternative to Hospital admission (Day Hospital) and Home Treatment. The service, based at CAMHS Phoenix on the Wokingham Community Hospital site, is a hospital at homeand home treatmentservice that provides evidence based psychiatric, nursing, and therapeutic interventions for young people under the age of 18 presenting with severe and complex mental health difficulties assessed as requiring Tier 4 level care, including where these disorders are co-morbid with neurodevelopmental diagnoses:
•Serious risk of harm to self; suicidal thoughts and behaviour
•Emotional dysregulation and symptoms that would be best described as emerging unstable personality disorder
•Eating disordersincluding anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa
•ARFID and disordered eating in the context of emotional dysregulation, trauma, and other mental disorder.
•Low mood, depressive disorder
•Early onset psychosis
•Severe OCD, complex PTSD
•Other psychological disturbance that may adversely affect functioning but falls outside typical diagnostic criteria.
• To work with children and adolescents and their families and/or carers providing support, education, family work andevidence basedinterventions aimed towards promoting recovery. You will work with people in a service which aims to work with other agencies including primary care to raise awareness of mental ill health and to reduce the length of time peopleremainuntreated.
• Toassess, plan, implement and evaluate a nursing care plan for young people and their families referred as either home treatment patients or day patients. Specialist knowledge of the following isrequired, the mental health problems of young people, child development, physical development, the management of risk in young people, the management of harm to self or others.
• Towork with young people and their families / carers in various environments including the home environments, care settings, community settings and clinical settingsin order toprovide clinically assessed andevidence-based and individualisedinterventions asdeterminedby the care plan for the young person
• To provide and be accountable for advice to the multi-disciplinary team and others relating to their area of practice/specialism.
• Responsible forfollowing clinical governance rules and risk management
• Towork in partnership with other colleagues across the Trust to deliver an integrated service thatfacilitatesthe wellbeing and recovery of service users.
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 SECONDMENT ROLES ONLY - If the secondment role becomes permanent, the successful candidate may be offered the permanent position.
The must have's for this role:
• Registered Mental HealthNurse and or anotherappropriate registerednurse traininge.gPaediatric Nurse/ Children’s Nurse / Learning Disability.
• To be able todemonstrateongoing professional development.
• A willingness to develop skills and knowledge in working with patients with an eating disorder and or Emotional Dysregulation
• Ability to travel independently and efficiently to deliver clinical care from multiple sites including service user homes.
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 to call:Majid Nazari, Team Manager on 07920767875 or Rebecca Martin, Clinical Nurse Specialist on 07342068975 during the officehours, 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.
The service will operate from 8am-8pm Mon-Fri; 9am-5pm Sat, Sun & Bank holiday’s (365 days per year). The post holder will be required to work shifts across these hours. You will be a member of the Community CAMHS Hospital at Home Service and is expected to work in various locations within its hours of operation as set out in its operational policy.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Jun 2025
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