Advanced Mental Health Practitioner

**Location**: East of Berkshire. Staff will be working with in Bracknell, Slough and Windsor & Maidenhead alongside Local Authority teams who are working with CiC.
The CiC is being established to ensure that children who are in care receive quicker access to mental health support, by working in partnership and sharing knowledge, we hope to effectively meet the needs of children and young people in care and their carers by providing evidenced based interventions that meet their need.
The service aims to improve life chances of Children in Care, by working towards increasing these resiliency factors:
Supporting trauma informed care
Creating stability of the Child or Young person’s home placement
CYP able to maintain a relationship with family members and work to be re-united where that is possible
Fostering as strong an attachment as possible with the CYP foster carers or adults responsible for their care (if in a residential setting)
Reaching as high as possible Education achievements
Creating local social networks, forming positive and meaningful relationships with peers and other adults
This is a unique opportunity to be part of and contribute to a newly developing and innovative service.
These posts supports the interface with partner agencies and specialist CAMHS.
**Clinical Roles will include**:
Consultation - offering advice, information and support to young people, carers, and professionals
Providing Training to carers and professionals
Clinical assessments for young people.
High and low intensity, evidence-based therapeutic interventions (individual, group, family, as appropriate)
Joint working with partner agencies, including Mental Health Support Teams, Early Help, Youth Offending Teams, other Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Use of routine outcome measures to promote active participation from young people and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions
Supervision, as appropriate to role
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**:
Experience of working with young people with mental health difficulties
Passion for providing collaborative and evidence-based mental health care
Enthusiasm for multi-professional and multi-agency working
Ability to travel between multiple 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.