Adults Mental Health Advanced Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Reading, Reading, United Kingdom Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and skilled Adult Mental Health Advanced Practitioner to join our team at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, you will be responsible for providing high-quality mental health care to children in care, working closely with partner agencies and specialist CAMHS.

Main Responsibilities
  1. Consultation and advice to young people, carers, and professionals
  2. Providing training to carers and professionals
  3. Clinical assessments for young people
  4. High and low intensity, evidence-based therapeutic interventions
  5. Joint working with partner agencies
  6. Use of routine outcome measures to evaluate effectiveness
  7. Supervision as appropriate to role
About Us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust, rated 'outstanding' by the CQC. We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. Our values at Berkshire Healthcare include caring for and about our patients, providing good quality, safe services, and working together to develop innovative solutions.

What We Offer
  1. Flexible working options to support work-life balance
  2. 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
  3. Generous NHS pension scheme
  4. Excellent learning and career development opportunities
  5. 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
  6. Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
  7. Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
  8. Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment, and armed forces community to support equality
  9. Generous maternity, paternity, adoption, and special leave
  10. Free parking across Trust sites
Requirements
  1. Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Social Worker or Qualified Systemic Family Therapist Masters level or Qualified Psychotherapist or Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or Occupational Therapist Or Speech and Language Therapist
  2. Registration with NMC or HCPC or other recognised professional body
Desirable
  1. A supervisory qualification in the relevant professional discipline
Previous Experience
  1. Significant post-qualifying experience of undertaking comprehensive assessment of mental health needs, developing care plans, and offering appropriate support
  2. Experience of working with service users with high risk presentations and undertaking risk assessment and risk management plans
  3. Experience of hard-to-reach diverse community groups and individuals with emerging complex needs, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, and safeguarding
  4. Experience of working effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency environment
Knowledge and Skills
  1. Knowledge and skill to assess acute mental health crisis, and deliberate self-harm at Getting Risk/Tier 3 levels
  2. Demonstrates up to date knowledge of legislation and National strategies and requirements for CAMHS
  3. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
  4. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
  5. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
  6. Ability to take clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment
  7. Competent IT skills and the ability to navigate around various systems and software packages
Additional Requirements
  1. Ability and willingness to work in a flexible way, including working outside of normal hours to facilitate out-of-hours clinics as required

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