CAMHS Senior Mental Health Practitioner for GP - Primary Care
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £40,617 - £48,778 per annum (Inclusive of HCAS) |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 11 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Maidenhead, SL6 1RF |
| Cwmni: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7609946/371-TAP-CFS546-2 |
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A Vacancy at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Are you a qualified, registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist looking for a new forward thinking role within a CAMHS service?
Are you passionate about assessments and getting young people to the right place?
Due to the success of our pilot in Windsor we are now looking for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner for GP to join us in Maidenhead on an 18 month FTC. This project is ground-breaking in the outcomes it provides for young people and we are looking with someone who shares our passion to be a part of it.
Within your role you will work jointly 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.
You will be an integral part of the team, holding a small caseload of Getting Help level cases accepted via triage and doing assessment in your PCN role. You will split your time equally, doing 2.5 days in each.
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. For this role we require an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual who is passionate about delivering duty interventions and contributing to team working.
You will be an experienced child and adolescent mental health practitioner who will work as part of the PCN MDT to deliver the following:
• 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.
• Identify any onward referral pathways and make appropriate 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
• Facilitate appropriate representation in practice-based MDT’s to support clinical management of identified patients
• Provide specialist advice to GP’s and other members of the MDT on the particular needs of children and young people and their families including advice on symptoms, risk or 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
The 4 “must haves” for this role:
• · Registered Mental Health Nurse, Registered Social Worker, Occupational Therapist
• · Experience of working with young people with mental health difficulties
• · Previous multi-professional and multi-agency working
• · Full UK driving license and ability to commute between 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’re committed 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 toemail:Rhona EdwardsonRhona.Edwards@berkshire.nhs.ukwho’llbe 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 whererequired. Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Sunday 30 Nov 2025
Are you a qualified, registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist looking for a new forward thinking role within a CAMHS service?
Are you passionate about assessments and getting young people to the right place?
Due to the success of our pilot in Windsor we are now looking for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner for GP to join us in Maidenhead on an 18 month FTC. This project is ground-breaking in the outcomes it provides for young people and we are looking with someone who shares our passion to be a part of it.
Within your role you will work jointly 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.
You will be an integral part of the team, holding a small caseload of Getting Help level cases accepted via triage and doing assessment in your PCN role. You will split your time equally, doing 2.5 days in each.
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. For this role we require an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual who is passionate about delivering duty interventions and contributing to team working.
You will be an experienced child and adolescent mental health practitioner who will work as part of the PCN MDT to deliver the following:
• 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.
• Identify any onward referral pathways and make appropriate 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
• Facilitate appropriate representation in practice-based MDT’s to support clinical management of identified patients
• Provide specialist advice to GP’s and other members of the MDT on the particular needs of children and young people and their families including advice on symptoms, risk or 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
The 4 “must haves” for this role:
• · Registered Mental Health Nurse, Registered Social Worker, Occupational Therapist
• · Experience of working with young people with mental health difficulties
• · Previous multi-professional and multi-agency working
• · Full UK driving license and ability to commute between 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’re committed 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 toemail:Rhona EdwardsonRhona.Edwards@berkshire.nhs.ukwho’llbe 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 whererequired. Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Sunday 30 Nov 2025
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