Anexciting new opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Child and Family Mental Health Worker with relevant experience to join the Berkshire CAMHS Anxiety Disorders Treatment Team.

CAMHS ADTT provide specialist assessments and treatment for children and young people suffering with anxiety disorders, OCD and Tic Disorders across Berkshire. The ADTT team prides itself on our inclusive practice, particularly our work with neurodivergent families. We have a compassionate ethos within the team which permeates throughout our work, and which is remarked upon by all clinicians who work with us.

The person in this role will receive valuable support and guidance from senior clinicians in the team as they work with children and young people experiencing anxiety disorders. The goal is to offer high-quality practical and emotional support, as well as therapeutic interventions.

In this position, you will play a key role in supporting assessments, collaborating with various agencies, and helping families during their waiting period for treatment. You'll also be involved in organising support group activities and assisting with referrals to other agencies, working alongside a designated Health Care Professional to ensure everything runs smoothly.

Main duties of the job

You will provide short-term interventions,such as Dialectical Behaviour Therapy-informed approaches to help manage distress and emotions, psychoeducation, and consultations with multiple agencies. By working closely with other CAMHS teams and agencies, you'll help ensure that the interventions are well-aligned with the overall care plan for each child and their family.

• To provide therapeutic interventions (individual/group) to children, young people and parents/carers on distress tolerance and anxiety management.

• To contribute to initial assessments of children and young people referred to the team in conjunction with other qualified members of the team.

• Assist in running support or treatment groups for young people and /or their parents.

• To facilitate and signpost referrals when appropriate to other agencies, in conjunction with allocated Health Care Professional.

• Contribute to, attend and, where appropriate, multi-agency meetings including safeguarding and child protection meetings, contributing to care support plans and supporting the network of professionals in creating a joint clinical formulation of the patients' needs.to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.

About us

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 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

If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The must haves for this role:

• Degree or MSc in a subject relevant to the post (e.g. social work, OT, Mental Health, Child Development, Psychology, Counselling, Youth work, etc)
• Previous work directly with children, young people, families as well as working across agencies
• Significant experience in a mental health or social care setting, working with children, young people and families.
• Experience undertaking assessments of needs Listening and advocacy skills, empathy, and ability to lead others

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. For further application tips see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.

If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call: Alice Farrington on 0118 9044665 or email Alice on Alice.Farrington@berkshire.nhs.uk wholl 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.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications/Training

Essential

• Degree or MSc in a subject relevant to the post (e.g. Social work, OT, Mental Health, Child Development, Psychology, Counselling, Youth work, Offending etc)
• HNC/HND or similar in relevant subject with extensive relevant work experience or short courses to degree equivalent level

Desirable

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) training.

Continuous Professional Development

Essential

• Commitment to Continuing Professional Development
• Evidence of relevant training

Previous Experience

Essential

• Previous work directly with children, young people, families as well as working across agencies
• Significant experience in a mental health or social care setting, working with children, young people and families.
• Experience undertaking assessments of needs
• Working with people in their own homes and the community
• Significant experience of risk management while working independently with vulnerable people in high distress in community settings
• Working with and co-ordinating multi-agencies to ensure young care is joined up and their holistic needs are identified and met.

Desirable

• Specialist skills acquired through engagement with different groups of vulnerable children and parents (offending, substance misuse, refugees.)
• Experience of managing groups of parents providing psychoeducation around children's mental health and/or parenting
• Experience of working with children and young people whose needs have been identified as needing CAMHS Tier 3 or 4 interventions, including self-harming and suicidality.
• Experience of providing consultation/guidance relating to systemic issues, attachment and delivering training to teams of professions
• Work within an NHS CAMHS setting liaising with appropriate qualified staff co-delivering joint pieces of therapeutic interventions to patients/families

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Listening and advocacy skills, empathy, and ability to lead others
• Personal resilience and ability to work under pressure within a crisis service
• Good IT skills and experience of recording about clients' needs

Desirable

• A keen attitude to learning and working in a team
• A good understanding of attachment theories and their clinical applications onto family work
• A good working understanding of and/or training on main therapeutic interventions, i.e. CBT/DBT/psychodynamic/person centred approaches
• Ability to work autonomously and prioritise own workload.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills where there are barriers to understanding.
• To have a working knowledge of financial benefits for families e.g. Carers Allowance, DLA, carer support options, respite/breaks, local groups/carer support, housing issues, employment and educational issues, mental health treatments and diagnoses
• To have knowledge and understanding of a wide range of working procedures and practices, ideally within Berkshire Foundation NHS Trust and Social Services, and knowledge of Health Authority Structure, charitable & voluntary organisations.

Continuous Professional Development

Desirable

• Evidence of relevant training
• Commitment to Continuing Professional Development

Employer details

Employer name

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

University of Reading - Earley Gate

Whiteknights Road

Reading

RG6 6BZ

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