Job summary
Join Our Dynamic Team as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner!
Are you a passionate and enthusiastic professional looking to make a real difference in the field of mental health? Are you looking for a rewarding role with 9am to 5pm working hours and flexible working options available to enhance your work/life balance? Read on to find out more...
The Community Mental Health Team in West Berkshire, based at Hillcroft House, Thatcham, is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our innovative and dynamic team.
We are dedicated to supporting individuals aged 18 to 75 who are experiencing severe and enduring mental illness and we support our clients to understand their experiences and return to college, university or employment.
Why Join Us?
- Impactful Work: You'll play a vital role in helping individuals and their families on their recovery journey.
- Professional Growth: Lead complex cases, provide support and guidance to colleagues, and collaborate with an integrated team of psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, social workers, and STR workers.
- Collaborative Environment: Work closely with local crisis teams, Mental Health Integrated Care Services (MHICS), and other specialist services within BHFT, as well as community services and statutory organisations in West Berkshire.
If you are seeking a new challenge and the opportunity to make a significant impact, we want to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
- Contribute to the delivery of specialist interventions, with a particular focus on psychosocial interventions, physical health/wellbeing and supporting informed treatment decisions in severe and enduring mental illness.
- Deliver and /or contribute to medicines optimisation using a person-values centred approach.
- Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge through provision ofhighly specialist adviceandsupport to patients, families, BHFTstaffand external stakeholders.
- Demonstrate effective communication and liaison with other care providers in order to ensure high standards of care are maintained.
- Deliver specialist training to BHFT staff and external stakeholders regarding severe and enduring mental illness, psychotropic prescribing and shared decision making.
- Contribute to development and implementation of the service strategy, performance metrics, key objectives and efficient use of resources.
- Undertake and supportmedicine and physical health-related auditsand quality improvement projects.
- Lead on implementation and support the use of shared care protocols where appropriate.
- Undertake a fluid and flexible approach to work.
About us
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 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
If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role:
Professional registration
Post graduate qualification in specific speciality or equivalent experience
Minimum 5 years post-registration experience (Band 7 or above) in speciality are
Applications for this role are considered on a first come first served basis so we recommend you apply today!
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: Maureen Rawson 0118 9043200, or email: [email protected] 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
Professional Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration
- Post graduate qualification in specific speciality or equivalent experience
- MSc level qualification or equivalent CATs
- Non-medical prescribing course
Desirable
- Teaching and mentoring qualification or demonstrable skills
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 5 years post-registration experience (Band 7 or above) in speciality area
- Evidence of on-going CPD
- Evidence of teaching in a variety of environments
- Experience working with service users who present with challenging and complex behaviour
- Experience in clinical audit
- Experience in project facilitation
- Experience of MDT mental health team working
- Experience of providing information to mental health patients
- Experience in supervising staff
- Experience in training of other staff
- Experience in carrying out medicines information queries, providing both verbal and written specialist advice
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal skills for communicating with public and other healthcare professionals
- Ability to demonstrate attention to detail, accuracy and numeracy/ calculation skills
- Sound IT skills
- Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge and skills
- Demonstrate awareness of and commitment to the clinical governance agenda
- Ability to prioritise and manage own workload
- Effective organisation and time management skills
- Demonstrates support for the values and beliefs of the patient group and those of the Trust
Additional requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel across sites
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Address
Care Pathways Newbury
Hillcroft House, Rookes Way
Thatcham
RG18 3HR