CYP IAPT Systemic Family Practitioner Trainee - COVID-19

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.

Systemic Family Practitioner (Eating Disorders) Training Post

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity. We have four new 2-year training posts for registered Healthcare professionals wishing to work and train as Systemic Family Practitioners within Eating Disorders. During the first year, you will study at Exeter University 2 days a week and will be supported to work as a band 6 within the BEDS Team base in Berkshire for the remaining 3 days per week. This will be followed by a further period of consolidated practice, working at Band 7, working full time in the BEDS Team (subject to successful completion of the first year including academic elements). Intensive supervision and ‘on the job’ training will be provided by a dedicated clinical supervisor within the team.

This is a fully funded full time fixed term training post. However, once you successfully complete the two years, we anticipate that you will have the opportunity to apply for a substantive band 7 post within our expanding service.

We are a CQC-rated Outstanding Trust committed to our staff. BEDS is a specialist treatment service for young people with Eating Disorders and their families across Berkshire. We are a friendly and hard-working multi-disciplinary team who share a passion for offering evidence-based treatments in a creative way to help children, young people, and families. We place a strong emphasis on supervision and believe in an ethos of compassionate support for one another as clinicians.

Our Berkshire Eating Disorders Service (BEDS) is collaborating with the University of Exeter to accept four trainees to support over the next academic year. The course you will be completing at the University of Exeter as part of this role is accredited with the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (AFT). This means that upon completion of the course trainees will meet criteria to apply for provisional accreditation as a Systemic Family Practitioner with the AFT.

This fantastic opportunity will be ideal for a professional who wishes to broaden their skills and qualifications and make a major contribution to child and adolescent mental health services in Berkshire.

Fixed term/ secondment end date - 31st December 2023, (subject to successful completion of academic training in 1st year)

About the Job

• To complete the IAPT SPF course at University of Exeter whilst providing clinical input to children, young people and families referred to the Berkshire Eating Disorders Service.
• To be a dedicated and enthusiastic member of our multidisciplinary eating disorders team
• To hold a clinical caseload and deliver compassionate and evidence-based care

Working pattern + Service operating hours : BEDS operates from 9-5 Monday to Friday.

Some of the benefits of joining our team:

• 1st Year AfC Salary ranging from £32,306 - £39,027 per annum
• Up to 5% Higher cost area supplement in addition to basic salary above
• Flexible working opportunities and a strong emphasis on your work/ life balance
• Annual leave – 27 days for new starters, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years NHS service. Pro rata for part time staff
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Salary sacrifice scheme for a new car
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave for eligible staff
• Advanced IT enablement and support
• Confidential telephone care service providing independent support and advice for staff.
• And so much more

Details surrounding deployment at Exeter University

• Travel costs to/from Exeter will be reimbursed
• University days will be on consecutive days of the week.
• Overnight student accommodation will be provided if preferred.

Work base: Nicholsons House, Maidenhead, SL6 1LD

The 4 “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:

• A recognised core profession (e.g. Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, or equivalent professional qualification)
• Post qualification experience in a mental health setting, working with young people with mental health difficulties and their families
• Empathy, ability to work in a team and a desire to make a difference to the children and families we treat
• Willingness to travel to Exeter to study and ability to start the academic year in Exeter on 24 January 2022.

Berkshire Healthcare has a record of achievement and success that places us as one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We are rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC, we have a history of strong financial performance and we have a highly skilled and engaged workforce. We aspire to be an outstanding organisation for everyone: our people, our patients, their families, and their carers. For our people who work here that means we want Berkshire Healthcare to be a great place to work where everyone can thrive and grow.

If you recognise yourself in these requirements, we recommend you apply today!

We are happy to answer any questions that you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact Emma Regan, Clinical Team Lead by email: emma.regan@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to hear from you.