Job summary
Interviews to be held on 01-Mar-2024
The Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting new opportunity for a Clinical Lead Specialist Children in Care Mental Health (and health staff in Youth Health and Justice) to join our CAMHS services and with our local authority colleagues across the East of Berkshire (Bracknell, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead and Slough). This post is four days a week (30 hours per week.)
Berkshire CAMHS is an innovative and dynamic service, providing specialist community mental health care to a child population of approximately 300,000 across the county. Care is provided through several different specialist teams and pathways.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to appoint a Band 8B Clinical Lead Specialist Children in Care Mental Health (and health staff in Youth Health and Justice). This post will lead on Children in Care (CiC) and mental health, working in partnership across three Local Authorities which sit within the East of Berkshire, including the management of a small team.
This role will be the point of contact for the three local authorities providing advice, consultation, and support to the professional networks across the three areas of Bracknell, Windsor Ascot & Maidenhead and Slough.
The Clinical Lead Specialist Children in Care Mental Health must be able to demonstrate both experience of working with and a genuine interest in the health and wellbeing of Children in Care (CiC). Be well organised and have excellent communication and leadership skills and be familiar with the demands and working environments of both a Social Care and Health settings.
The post holder will also oversee the 3 local authorities' health staff, working as part of multidisciplinary and multi-agency Youth Health & Justice Services and will support strategic and operational development of services as required.
The post requires an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual who is passionate about working in a partnership setting and contributing to team working. If you have a 'can do' attitude and are quality focused, then we would love to hear from you.
About us
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust isa 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
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
- Free parking across Trust sites
Job description
Job responsibilities
The4 must haves for you to be considered 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
If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and lets be outstanding together.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call: Sharon Brookes on 07870 365 856 or email: Sharon.Brookes@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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The4 must haves for you to be considered 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
If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and lets be outstanding together.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call: Sharon Brookes on 07870 365 856 or email: Sharon.Brookes@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
- Registered Mental Health Nurse (NMC) Occupational Therapy degree level qualification and registered with the HCPC or Registered Social Worker with relevant social work qualification or Other Health professional with relevant post graduate qualification.
- Relevant post graduate qualification in CAMHS related subject
- Registration with HCPC where required
Continuous Professional Development
Essential
- Evidence of continuous CPD in areas related to Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Desirable
- Engagement with relevant CYP IAPT training e.g. transformational leadership, CBT supervision.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial supervision experience.
- Experience of assessment and treatment of children and adolescents and their families across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of diversity, including experience of working with diversity, multiculturalism and equality of access to services
- Minimum 4 years' experience working with Children, young people, families and groups in Mental Health setting.
- Ability to prioritise case referrals, assessment and discharge effectively on an individual basis or within multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of Risk Assessment and Management.
- Experience of hard to reach diverse community groups and individuals with emerging complex needs, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and safeguarding.
- Understanding of systemic family processes and organisational systems which influence families' experience of services.
Desirable
- Experience of team and service leadership and improvement.
- Ability to undertake investigations into complaints, grievances and disciplinary matters as set out in Trust policies and procedures
- Experience of teaching and training.
- Experience of service improvement
- ASD Pathway - Relevant training and/or experience in multi-disciplinary assessments of autism spectrum disorders in children and adolescents including training and/or a working knowledge of ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule), ADI-R or 3Di'
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge and skills 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.
- Advanced knowledge and skills in using the complete range of approaches practice as required meeting the needs of different children and young people and settings.
- 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.
- Evidence of working as a qualified senior clinician within CAMHS, Looked after services or Looked after services within a Local Authority setting
- Ability to prioritise case referrals, assess and discharge effectively on an autonomous basis or within the multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to take clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment.
- Knowledge of the influences of Parental Mental Health on young people, Domestic Violence, Survivors of Torture
Desirable
- Ability to apply evidence based therapeutic interventions.
Additional requirements
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability and willingness to work in a flexible way including working outside of normal hours to facilitate out of hours clinics as required by Commissioners.
- 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.
- Emotional stamina and ability to respond constructively in highly stressful situations where individuals hold very different perspectives and there is a high level of distress, ambiguity and conflict.
- 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
- Car owner/driver and possess full UK driver's licence or evidence of ability to travel to designated base and other sites.
Desirable
- 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.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse (NMC) Occupational Therapy degree level qualification and registered with the HCPC or Registered Social Worker with relevant social work qualification or Other Health professional with relevant post graduate qualification.
- Relevant post graduate qualification in CAMHS related subject
- Registration with HCPC where required
Continuous Professional Development
Essential
- Evidence of continuous CPD in areas related to Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Desirable
- Engagement with relevant CYP IAPT training e.g. transformational leadership, CBT supervision.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial supervision experience.
- Experience of assessment and treatment of children and adolescents and their families across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of diversity, including experience of working with diversity, multiculturalism and equality of access to services
- Minimum 4 years' experience working with Children, young people, families and groups in Mental Health setting.
- Ability to prioritise case referrals, assessment and discharge effectively on an individual basis or within multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of Risk Assessment and Management.
- Experience of hard to reach diverse community groups and individuals with emerging complex needs, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and safeguarding.
- Understanding of systemic family processes and organisational systems which influence families' experience of services.
Desirable
- Experience of team and service leadership and improvement.
- Ability to undertake investigations into complaints, grievances and disciplinary matters as set out in Trust policies and procedures
- Experience of teaching and training.
- Experience of service improvement
- ASD Pathway - Relevant training and/or experience in multi-disciplinary assessments of autism spectrum disorders in children and adolescents including training and/or a working knowledge of ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule), ADI-R or 3Di'
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge and skills 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.
- Advanced knowledge and skills in using the complete range of approaches practice as required meeting the needs of different children and young people and settings.
- 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.
- Evidence of working as a qualified senior clinician within CAMHS, Looked after services or Looked after services within a Local Authority setting
- Ability to prioritise case referrals, assess and discharge effectively on an autonomous basis or within the multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to take clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment.
- Knowledge of the influences of Parental Mental Health on young people, Domestic Violence, Survivors of Torture
Desirable
- Ability to apply evidence based therapeutic interventions.
Additional requirements
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability and willingness to work in a flexible way including working outside of normal hours to facilitate out of hours clinics as required by Commissioners.
- 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.
- Emotional stamina and ability to respond constructively in highly stressful situations where individuals hold very different perspectives and there is a high level of distress, ambiguity and conflict.
- 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
- Car owner/driver and possess full UK driver's licence or evidence of ability to travel to designated base and other sites.
Desirable
- 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.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
