Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Community MH Team (West Berkshire)
16 days ago
Thatcham
Are you a passionate and experienced clinician looking to make a meaningful impact in community mental health? This is an exciting opportunity to join the team at a time of development and positive change, with the successful candidate helping to shape the future direction of the service. We support adults aged 18-75 with severe and enduring mental illness, promoting recovery, independence, and improved quality of life. As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will deliver high-quality, person-centred care while providing strong clinical leadership within a multidisciplinary team of around 40 staff. You will lead on complex clinical cases, provide support and guidance to colleagues, and help ensure the service continues to deliver safe, effective, and recovery-focused care to empower individuals to understand their experiences and work towards goals such as returning to college, university, or employment. This part-time role (18.75 hours) offers flexible working with no fixed days, alongside excellent opportunities for professional development and a strong work-life balance. Applications for this vacancy will be considered in the order in which they are received, the vacancy may close early if the right candidate is found. We recommend you apply today to ensure you don't miss out on starting your journey with us! 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 of highly specialist advice and support to patients, families, BHFT staff and 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 support medicines and physical health-related audits and quality improvement projects. Lead on implementation and support the use of shared care protocols where appropriate. Undertake a fluid and flexible approach to work. 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, • Flexible working options to support work-life balance, • 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell, • 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 sitesFOR SECONDMENT ROLES ONLY - If the secondment role becomes permanent, the successful candidate may be offered the permanent position.The must haves for this role:, • Professional qualification as a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist (OT), with current registration with the relevant professional body., • Postgraduate qualification in a relevant specialty (e.g. Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Non-Medical Prescriber, CBT or Psychosocial Interventions) or equivalent proven experience., • Substantial experience at Band 7 level or above within the relevant specialty area. We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call: Maureen Rawson 0118 9043200, or email: wholl 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. • Professional registration NMC, SW, OT, • Post graduate qualification in specific speciality or equivalent experience, • Teaching and mentoring qualification or demonstrable skills, • MSc level qualification or equivalen, • 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, • Demonstrate an understanding of the key stakeholders the post is likely to be supporting and how they will be expected to support them, • Excellent written and verbal skills for communicating with public and other healthcare professionals, • Ability to demonstrate attention to detail, accuracy and numeracy/ calculation skills, • Advanced IT skills, • Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge and skills, • Ability to critically appraise research and incorporate into practice, • 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 £55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum, pro rata #J-18808-Ljbffr