Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner
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Are you passionate about making a difference and enjoy working as part of a larger team? Are you eager to use your clinical skills to provide excellent care and progress your career?
Applicants will need to be enthusiastic and able to work flexibly and reliably to contribute to the delivery of outstanding care to our patients.
As a Mental Health Practitioner, with the Reading Community Mental Health Service, you will have responsibility for the line management of students and junior staff, undertaking their annual appraisals, PDP’s and proactively supporting their development review cycle.
You should have the ability to think calmly and logically under pressure and have a positive attitude to maintaining high standards of work at all times and be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills.
You will be able to work unsupervised, using your own initiative, but also to be able to work as a part of the wider team and be able to work in multiagency partnership.
Accuracy and attention to details is essential for this post with a good level of competency in using Microsoft applications. Strong organisational skills are essential.
Our service operates five days a week, not including bank holidays and is offering full, part time and hybrid flexible working opportunities.
- You will be responsible for the formulation, implementation and evaluation of a care plan for a designated number of patients who may present with significant complexity within the multidisciplinary team
- You will also be responsible for devising a risk and safety plan with each individual patient managing their risks in close partnership with wider team
- You will be conducting assessments and reviews within the Service.
- You will be contributing to establishment of the specialist offer for the service users assessed at Place.
- You will apply up to date professional and other knowledge to ensure any options of care for individuals is evidenced base and informed by theoretical and practical learning and experience
- You will work closely with colleagues in specialist community mental health services to ensure smooth transitions between teams and services and facilitate an ‘easy in, easy out’ approach to improve access to evidence-based interventions.
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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.
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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
FOR SECONDMENT ROLES ONLY - If the secondment role becomes permanent, the successful candidate may be offered the permanent position.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Joanna Jelonek
- Job title: CPN
- Email address: Joanna.Jelonek@berkshire.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01189605612
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