Advanced Mental Health Practitioner

Community Mental Health Services | One Team at Place

Are you a passionate and experienced mental health professional looking to make a meaningful impact at senior level? We are seeking a Advanced Mental Health Practitioner to join our WAM Community Mental Health Service, delivering high quality, recovery focused care to adults (18+) with Significant Mental Illness.

You will play a pivotal role within a dynamic multidisciplinary team, working collaboratively with GPs, Specialist Mental Health Services, Social Care and voluntary sector partners. Using a biopsychosocial and strengths based approach, you will ensure people receive timely assessment, evidence based interventions and seamless support across services.

The Role:

You will manage a complex clinical caseload encompassing low, moderate and high risk presentations, providing named worker interventions and expert clinical leadership. As a senior practitioner, you will offer day today guidance, supervision and development for junior clinicians and Community Connectors, supporting effective access to community and voluntary sector resources.

You will take an active lead in clinical decision making, risk management and governance, ensuring safe transitions between services and promoting an "easy in, easy out" model of care. Working closely with senior colleagues, you will contribute to service development, audit, quality improvement and partnership working, embedding a culture of recovery, inclusion and continuous learning.

The Advanced Mental Health Practitioner will provide high quality assessment, formulation and evidence based interventions for adults (18+) presenting with low,moderate and complex mental health needs within WAM Community Mental Health Services. The post holder will manage a complex clinical caseload, acting as named worker and leading on risk assessment, care planning and clinical decision makingin line with recovery focused and biopsychosocial models of care.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the post holder will collaborate closely with GPs, Specialist Mental Health Services, Social Careand voluntary sector partners to ensure seamless transitions between services and an "easy in, easy out" approach to care. The role includesprovidingexpert clinical advice to the team, contributing to service allocation decisions, escalation to urgent care where required, and supporting safe and effective discharge planning.

As a senior practitioner, the post holder will provide day today supervision, guidance and development support to junior clinicians and Community Connectors, promoting strengths based practice and effective use of community assets. They will lead on clinical governance and risk management, ensure compliance with Trust policies, maintain high quality clinical records, and contribute to audit, qualityimprovementand service development activities.

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
• 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

The must haves for this role:

• A relevant…