Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS Rapid Response
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CFS504-A
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CAMHS Rapid Response, 25 Erleigh Road
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/07/2025
Employer heading
Child and Family Mental Health Worker
Band 5
Job overview
Interview will be held on 1st July 2025
Do you want to work with young people and families and have transferable skills to work with complex mental health needs? We have an exciting opportunity to work for a Trust that is rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC.
We are seeking a Child and Family Mental Health Worker working within the CAMHS Rapid Response Intensive Treatment Team. The CAMHS Rapid Response Team delivers high-quality mental health assessments and short-term interventions to young people experiencing mental health crisis. Our service is essential in responding to and supporting young people and adolescents presenting in crisis in the community. It is an exciting time to join Rapid Response as we are developing our service. This role will offer intensive short-term intervention to young people and their families, while receiving supervision and support from senior Clinicians.
We welcome applicants who have skills (or transferable skills) in working with young people with mental health needs and have ideally also worked with their parents/carers.
We offer regular supportive supervision and mentoring, to help you develop and feel confident/supported in this role.
We can consider both full time (37.5 hours per week) and part-time applications.
Main duties of the job
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You will provide brief interventions for young people who have presented in crisis where it is identified that additional intensive interventions are required, especially to avoid placement breakdown or admission to an adolescent mental health hospital, or residential care.
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You will be working with young people who may have self-harmed and/or expressed suicidal thoughts. You will therefore need to be aware of risk identification and management (with support of a case-holding Clinician).
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You will work with parents/carer of the young people in crisis (where clinically indicated) offering support, advice and psychoeducation.
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You will work with the young person to ensure they are heard, validated and their needs are understood.
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You will play an important key role in liaising with multi-agency partners to ensure the young person's needs are communicated and all agencies work collaboratively together.
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You will work closely with the wider Children and Adolescent’s Mental Health services in Berkshire as well as local authority, education colleagues and other services/agencies as required.
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You will be supported, guided and supervised by senior Clinicians in the team.
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You will receive training to enable you to offer interventions such as DBT skills (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy skills), to enable you to support young people to develop emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.
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:
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Degree or MSc in a subject relevant to the post (e.g Social work, OT, Mental Health, Child Development, Psychology, Counselling, Youth work, Offending etc.) or
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HNC/HND or similar in relevant subject with extensive relevant work experience or short courses to degree equivalent level
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Previous work directly with children, young people, families as well as working with multi-agencies
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Significant experience in a mental health or social care setting, working with children, young people and families
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: Emily Perrin on 07815 485196 or email: [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, 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.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Degree or MSc in a subject relevant to the post (e.g Social work, OT, Mental Health, Child Development, Psychology, Counselling, Youth work, Offending etc.) or
- HNC/HND or similar in relevant subject with extensive relevant work experience or short courses to degree equivalent level
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Commitment to continuing professional development
- Evidence of relevant training
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous work directly with children, young people, families as well as working with multi-agencies
- Significant experience in a mental health or social care setting, working with children, young people and families
- Experience undertaking assessments of needs
- Working with people in their own homes and the community
- Significant experience of risk management while working independently with vulnerable people in high distress in community settings
- Specialist skills acquired through engagement with different groups of vulnerable children and parents (offending, substance misuse, refugees.)
- Experience of providing consultation/guidance relating to systemtic issues, attachment and delivering training to teams of professions
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing groups of parents providing psychoeducation around childens mental health and/or parenting
- Experience of working with children and young people whose needs have been identified as needing CAMHS Tier 3 or 4 interventions, including profoung self-harming and suicidality
- Working with and co-ordinating mult-agencies to ensure young care is joined up and their holistic needs are identified and met
- Work within an NHS CAMHS setting liasing with appoprirate qualified staff co-delivering joint pieces of therapeutic interventions to patients/families
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Listening and advocacy skills, empathy, and ability to lead others
- Personal resilience and ability to work under pressure within a crisis service
- Good IT skills and experience of recording about clients’ needs
- A keen attitude to learning and working in a team
Desirable criteria
- A good understanding of attachment theories and their clinical applications onto family work
- A good working understanding of and/or training on main interventions
- Ability to work autonomously and prioritise own workload
- Excellent oral and written communication skills where there are barriers to understanding
- To have a working knowledge of financial benefits for families eg Carers Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, carer support options, respite/breaks, local groups/carer support, housing issues, employment and educational issues, mental health treatments and diagnoses
- To have knowledge and understanding of a wide range of working procedures and practices, ideally within Berkshire Foundation NHS Trust and Social Services, and knowledge of Health Authority Structure, charitable & voluntary organisations.
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to travel to multiple sites across the Trust
- Clean driving license and access to personal vehicle
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emily Perrin
- Job title
- Team Lead - CAMHS Rapid Response
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07815485196
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