Trainee Children and Young People's Wellbeing - Reading, United Kingdom - Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Reading, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are looking to recruit to 12 training posts; 6 based across the Getting Help East Service, 3 based within the Neurodiversity Team (Autism Assessment Team & ADHD Team) & 3 training posts within the Anxiety & Depression in Young People (AnDY) Research Clinic in Reading.

The role of the trainee children's wellbeing practitioners is to provide brief evidence-based and CBT informed interventions for children and young people who are presenting with mild-moderate anxiety, low mood, and behavioural difficulties in the community or those waiting for an autism and/or ADHD assessment or who have already received a diagnosis of either/both.

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.

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

The "must haves" for you to be considered for this role:

Experience of working with children and an understanding of how to talk with them
Some experience of working within a mental health setting or school pastoral care
Strong communication, IT & organisational skills
Graduate route (level 6)

Applicants that may not hold an Honours degree must have proven successful study at level 5; or successful part completion of an Honours degree - Level 6

Postgraduate route (level 7)

Honours Degree graded at 2.2 or above

If you have previously applied for a similar post in Berkshire and were not shortlisted, please do not re-apply.

We have several exciting training opportunities for people who wish to make a make a major contribution to child and adolescent mental health services in Berkshire.

The vacancies have arisen through funding from Health Education England to introduce and train Children and Young People Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) to work in Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHS) in England.

CWPs provide brief low intensity psychological interventions for young people with anxiety, depression and behavioural difficulties as part of a stepped care service.

This is the 9th cohort of a programme to roll out this new workforce for CAMHS.

Interviews to be held on Week commencing 21st -25th of August 2023. These will be conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams.