Berkshire West Cyp Mental Health Practitioner for

3 weeks ago


Reading, United Kingdom Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Berkshire West Specialist CYP Mental Health Practitioner for Primary Care (Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme - ARRS) to join our Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) to enhance joint working 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.

This is a new role that will provide triage, assessment and mental health advice to children and young people presenting for help to the GP surgeries in the Reading Primary Care Network.

This role will provide 37.5 hours of mental health input to two Reading PCNs. They will have a base within the identified PCNs and will be employed within the Trust Child & Adolescent Mental Health services.

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. The posts require enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals who are passionate about delivering duty interventions and contributing to team working. If you have a ‘can do’ attitude and are quality focused then we would love to hear from you.

Interviews to be held 1st June 2023

The post holder 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.

The trust employs almost 5,000 people over more than 100 sites and community settings across Windsor & Maidenhead, Slough, Bracknell Forest, Wokingham, Reading and West Berkshire.

As an inclusive employer, we value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall 100 Top Employer. Whatever your background or individual needs, at Berkshire Healthcare you’ll be supported by friendly and professional managers to succeed.

**These are the values that we live by 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 leave
- Generous NHS pension scheme - 20.68% employer contribution
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- Advanced IT enablement
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants via the Blue Light Card
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and more to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave and access to our three staff nurseries

**The 4 “must haves” for this role**:
1. Experience of working with young people with mental health difficulties
2. Passion for providing collaborative and evidence-based mental health care
3. Enthusiasm for multi-professional and multi-agency working
4. Ability to travel between multiple sites

If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and let’s be outstanding together.



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