Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

7 months ago


Bracknell, United Kingdom NHS Professionals Full time

By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

**Job Title**:Registered Nurse - **Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

**Trust Location**: Church Hill House

**Pay Rates**:Days £20.76

**Shift Options**:Monday to Friday 9-5pm for 12 weeks

**About the Trust -**

**Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust** (BHFT), a community and mental health trust, are rated ‘Outstanding’ in their most recent CQC report as well as being recognised as a Global Digital Exemplar. In this role you will be located in and working across an area with all the benefits of country living with the convenience of big city life.

**As a member, you’ll have fantastic benefits**:

- Competitive pay rates - work this week, get paid next week
- Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go - access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
- Essential support when you need it - 24/7 365 days - Call us anytime
- Multi-locational - work across neighbouring Trusts
- First choice of shifts or placements at your Trust - access before they are made available to agency
- Varied working options to suit your lifestyle - access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or fixed term placements
- Training and development opportunities
- Build holiday allowance for every shift you work
- Stakeholder pension scheme available

**What you’ll be responsible for**
- Case find, screen, triage, assess and coordinate the development of care plans for people who have been referred by a member of the Primary Care Team
- Provide brief support and time limited evidence-based interventions, using the principles of motivational interviewing.
- Complete joint assessments with CMHT, to identify and support patients ready to transition to primary care, and develop care plans and prepare people for step down.
- Work with the Primary Care Community Connector, to map community resources and assets that are available for those with SMI within the specific PCN geography and ensure awareness of these is communicated throughout the Primary Care Network.
- To lead collaborative working between the full range of physical health and mental health services, to ensure that people who need care are able to access it quickly and easily and are prevented from being excluded from services or ‘falling through gaps’.
- In conjunction with the Community Connector, to establish an ethos within the service based on individual strengths and community assets, and support, service users, carers and families to access voluntary services and other relevant community providers, and utilise available information to promote self-management approaches as part of a holistic approach
- To lead on establishing sustainable networks that help to streamline care pathways across community, primary and secondary care services within the PCN population

**You’ll have the following qualification/experience**:

- Current professional registration: Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or equivalent.
- Evidence of relevant post registration training and development in particular motivational interviewing, brief solution focussed interventions, cognitive and behavioural approaches and psychosocial interventions.
- Minimum 5 years post registration experience in working with people with mental health needs.
- Community experience in mental health services for adults and older age adults with severe / significant mental illness
- Experience of providing a range of evidence based interventions to people with a variety of mental health problems and serious mental illness.
- Considerable experience in the assessment and management of clinical risk.

**Who are NHS Professionals?**

**Disclaimer**:
**Salary**: £20.76-£20.80 per hour

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Bracknell, RG12 7FR: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 521



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