Job summary
This post is for a full time Advanced Mental Health Practitioner.

The post is based within our home treatment team in WAM- Nicholson House - Maidenhead.

The home treatment team\`s support patients to prevent hospital admission offering intensive home treatment interventions.

The role is predominantly 37.5hrs, Monday to Friday 8-4.

The ideal candidate will be someone who has worked in an acute health care setting at Band 6 and feels ready for a next level challenge. They need to be motivated to work in a high demand and clinically exciting service. The ideal candidate will be someone who truly values the opportunities that the mental health professionals have in assisting people going through difficult times in their lives. They will be passionate about helping people with SMI getting back on their recovery journeys following relapses.

The team is very supportive with many very experienced practitioners from different clinical backgrounds.

Main duties of the job

• Treating patient\`s in their homes in order to prevent hospital admission.
• Carrying out reviews for patients referred to the crisis resolution home treatment team.
• Involved in the delivery of care of the patients taken under the care of CRHTT
• Attendance to referral meetings
• Take part in complaints and serious incident investigations
• Liaising with other parts of the mental health service
• Assessing and supporting patients both via home visits and phone/video calls
• Participating in the QMIS process for service improvement
• Supervising junior staff and students

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. 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

Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role:

• Professional qualification
• Experience working on a secondary care setting
• Compassionate and caring
• Likes working in a team

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.Were 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 dont hesitate to call: Lorraine Dune on 07717 290801 Managers Phone number] or email: Lorraine.Dune@berkshire.nhs.uk 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

Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse or equivalent professional registration
• Evidence of relevant post registration training and development.
• Mentor and mentorship training

Desirable

• Independent and supplementary Prescriber
• Recognised training qualification.

Continuous Professional Development
Essential

• Extensive post registration experience in working with people with mental health needs.
• Considerable experience in the assessment and management of clinical risk.
• Experience of effective collaborative working.
• Evidence of Interdisciplinary / multi-agency working experience

Desirable

• Clinical audits and research.

Previous Experience
Essential

• Experience of working in CRHTT
• Experience working in an Emergency Department environment
• We welcome people with lived experience
• Experience in the planning and delivery of training and practice developments to staff.
• Evidence of experience in service evaluation and improvements.

Knowledge/skills
Essential

• Advanced understanding of the mental health needs of adults
• Specialist knowledge of person centred care and its application
• Specialist knowledge of psycho-social interventions and their appropriate use.
• Working knowledge of appropriate assessment tools.
• Working knowledge of the policies and guidelines pertinent to the planning and delivery of care to adults with mental health needs.
• Recovery focused practitioner able to apply recovery principles to adults and older people
• Clear understanding of psychotropic medication and the monitoring of effects and side effects

Desirable

• Knowledge of practical application and use psychological therapies
• Knowledge of service improvement models and its application
• Awareness of the impact of the health economies on service planning and delivery.

Additional Requirements
Essential

• Positive approach to older adults
• Recognise peoples' right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
• Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working
• Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
• Ability to work flexibly
• Ability to foster good interagency working.
• Ability to represent the team / service / Trust in a professional manner
• Ability to travel independently.

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.