Advanced Mental Health Practitioner | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,008 - £56,908 per annum (inc. of HCAS) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 February 2026 |
| Location: | Reading, RG6 6BZ |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7732410/371-CFS647 |
Summary
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 specialised CAMHS Children in Care Team as an Advanced Mental Health Practitioner.
You will need to have a recognised professional registration and demonstrable experience working within Children and Young People’s mental health services.
You will be knowledgeable and experienced in working with families and systems to meet the needs of the young people in their care is also essential.
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 be based at our Erleigh House office.
• To deliver a high-quality trauma-informed mental health service to looked after children and young people of Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham Local authorities.
• To deliver interventions that are systemic in nature and develop the professional family network to support them to work therapeutically with the young people in their care.
• To provide specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions, offer consultation on children’s care to non-clinical colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working 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 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
The “must haves” for this role:
• A core qualification and recognised professional registration e.g. NMC, HCPC
• Experienced in working with Children and Young People’s mental health services
• Demonstrable experience in working with mental health complex needs
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. Please don’t hesitate to call: Liudmila Knowles on her email: liudmila.knowles@berkshire.nhs.uk or on 01189046780 who’ll be 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 please submit your application as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Tuesday 20 Jan 2026
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