[ref. a91745016] Reading - Mental Health Nurse - CAMHS ADTT
Job overview
Are you a qualified Mental Health Nurse with a good understanding of psychological disorders and a genuine drive to support children, young people & their families?
Join our CAMHS Anxiety Disorders Treatment Team (ADTT) in a newly created Mental Health Nurse role, working with children and young people across Berkshire who are struggling with anxiety disorders, OCD and Tic Disorders.
Like us, you’ll take pride in inclusive practice, particularly when working with neurodivergent families, and take a compassionate, formulation-led and evidence-based approach to treatment.
As part of your role you will:
- Support young people on our waiting list with short-term interventions, assessments & ongoing reviews
- Work closely with families, schools, crisis teams and CAMHS colleagues, including attending and leading multi-agency meetings
- Collaborate within a multidisciplinary team alongside clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, CBT therapists, OTs and social workers
You’ll have opportunities to get involved in service innovations and new initiatives, including an AI chat support pilot.
Be part of a friendly team that has a culture of compassion, values shared working and professional development and places a strong focus wellbeing.
We welcome full-time and part-time applications (from 22.5 hrs). Our core hours are 9–5, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. We are based on-site at Erlegh House, Reading, with occasional travel for home or school visits.
Main duties of the job- Undertake shift lead duties, coordinate the shift, oversee incoming referrals and delegate tasks
- Conduct reviews, care planning and provide both group and individual treatment
- Offer support and risk management for young people awaiting treatment
- Perform comprehensive assessments, including mental state, risk, and psychosocial factors
- Develop appropriate care or safety plans and formulate clinical understanding from assessment
- Provide short-term interventions, ongoing patient reviews and multi-agency consultation and liaison
- Contribute to and chair meetings to enhance collaborative working and promote positive outcomes
- Provide support to young people and families while they wait for treatment to start
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary team clinicians and external agencies to deliver integrated, holistic care
- Actively engage in quality improvement and service development within CAM
Applications for this role will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
- Qualified Mental Health Nurse, active on the NMC register
- Minimum of 12 months post qualification as a Band 5 nurse and completed preceptorship
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams / multi-agency environment.
- A good understanding of psychological disorders
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: Jemma Crocker-Buque on 01189044665, or email [email protected], who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria- Registered Nurse – Mental Health
- Up to date registration and validation with the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council)
Previous Experience
Essential criteria- Minimum of 12 months post-qualification as a Band 5 nurse and completed preceptorship.
- Experience of working within mental health services
- Experience of working with children and adolescents
- Experience of working within diverse community groups and with individuals who may have emerging complex needs, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and neurodiversity.
- Experience of working effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency environment
- Experience of contributing to service improvement initiatives.
- Experience of providing supervision or leadership to others.
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria- Can appropriately use the Mental Capacity Act and Gillick competency
- Acquires and maintains clinical competencies relevant for the clinical area.
- Medication management
- Assessing, managing and recording risk as appropriate
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside of the NHS.
- Ability to take clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment.
- Has a good understanding of safeguarding policy and procedures
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Competent IT skills and the ability to navigate around various systems and software packages such as Outlook, MS office and clinical databases such as RIO.
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria- 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 when required to reflect changing needs.
- 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.
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.
Please find attached the behaviour framework that underpins these values for this job role.
At Berkshire Healthcare, we foster an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs.
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We welcome talent from all backgrounds and offer guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants and armed forces community members who meet the minimum criteria.
Please note we may close positions before the advertised date.
If you need help with your application, please contact us on [email protected]
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