Are you a Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist looking for a new challenge?

Are you seeking a role in an innovative crisis team committed to excellence in young people's mental health care?

Take your next step with CAMHS Rapid Response! Be part of a team that prioritises communication, compassion and collaboration to deliver mental health support for patients and their families.

You'll conduct high-quality mental health assessments and deliver short-term interventions to young people in crisis. You'll collaborate with CAMHS services, local authorities and educational partners.

We've undergone an exciting transformation to further support the young people we work with. We run a 24 service for our clients so your role includes evening and weekend shifts on a rotational basis. Shifts will be at our central Reading base and the Royal Berks Hospital.

Our team champion staff wellbeing and are committed to your professional growth and development. You'll work with a diverse range of clinicians with multi-disciplinary backgrounds and value the exceptional peer and management support.

You'll have experience in mental health and complex needs within CAMHS or a crisis team. At Band 7 you'll need the knowledge and ability to supervise shifts.

We welcome full time and part time applications for a minimum of 30 hrs per week.

Applications are processed as they are received. We would encourage you to apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early!

Main duties of the job

• Conduct high quality assessments and clinical formulations.
• Respond to crisis calls from young people and their families.
• Provide short-term interventions and follow ups, and make ongoing referrals as needed.
• Lead shifts and supervise other clinicians.
• Maintain and develop key relationships with professionals, patients, and families.
• Ensure accurate clinical record-keeping.

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 andwork 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 close roles early that have a high number of applications.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The must haves for this role

1. Degree in a relevant field and a core profession (e.g., Social Worker, Nurse, OT) and registration with relevant body

2. Experience with mental health and complex needs and skilled in mental health assessments and formulation.

3. Full UK driving license with access to a vehicle.

4. The ability and experience to supervise shifts.

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. 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.

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 contact: Emily Perrin on emily.perrin@berkshire.nhs.uk who will 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

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• OR Recognised and relevant qualification as below: Registered Social Worker
• OR Qualified Systemic Family Therapist Masters level
• OR Qualified Psychotherapist
• OR Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
• OR Occupational Therapist
• Registration with NMC or HCPC or other recognised professional body

Desirable

• A supervisory qualification in the relevant professional discipline.

Previous Experience

Essential

• Significant post-qualifying experience of undertaking comprehensive assessment of mental health needs, developing care plans, and offering appropriate support based on psychological formulation of presenting difficulties.
• Experience of working with service users with high-risk presentations and undertaking risk assessment and risk management plans.
• Experience of hard-to-reach diverse community groups and individuals with emerging complex needs, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and safeguarding.
• Experience of working effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency environment.

Desirable

• Experience of working within mental health settings supporting children, adolescents and their families.
• Experience of providing supervision or leadership to others.
• Experience of contributing to service improvement initiatives.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Knowledge and skill to assess acute mental health crisis, and deliberate self-harm at Tier 3 levels.
• Demonstrates up to date knowledge of legislation and National strategies and requirements for CAMHS.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to motivate and inspire others and to support others to develop key competencies.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to take clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment.
• Ability to work to timescales and comfortably cope in pressurised situations, applying practical problem-solving skills in everyday and complex situations
• Ability to work autonomously and effectively in a team, reprioritising work and that of others work to reflect changing needs.
• Competent IT skills and the ability to navigate around various systems and software packages (such as outlook, databases, e.g. RiO MS office and internet

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Ability and willingness to work in a flexible way including working outside of normal hours to facilitate out of hours clinics as required.
• Able to maintain professional boundaries and conduct.
• Supportive approach towards colleagues and service users.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated team player.
• Able to negotiate, be confident and assertive.

Employer details

Employer name

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

25 Erleigh Road

Reading

RG1 5LR

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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