Job summary
- Main area
- Care Pathways Wokingham
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-MHS861
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Resource House
- Town
- Wokingham
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum (inc. of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/10/2025
Employer heading
Clinical Team Lead (Advanced Mental Health Practitioner)
Band 7
Job overview
We are seeking a specialist, dynamic and extensively experienced Band 7 Clinical Lead (Advanced Mental Health Practitioner) to join our Community Mental Health Service. The postholder will lead and deliver high-quality, evidence-based assessments and interventions for adults with complex mental health needs in a secondary care, community setting. This includes managing a complex caseload, providing clinical & professional leadership, supervision, line management duties, and contributing to service development, quality improvements and transformation initiatives.
The postholder will join a full complement of MDT professions, as a highly motivated and enthusiastic member of the team that supports a positive attitude and commitment to providing excellent holistic care.
You will have regular access to supervision, support, networking and development opportunities.
This position is full time, permanent, working onsite or in the community five days a week at Resource House, Wokingham.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
- Deliver advanced assessments, interventions and outcome measures, using evidence-based, client-centred approaches for adults with complex mental health needs and diverse co-morbidities.
Leadership and Supervision
- Provide clinical supervision and mentorship to nurses, support workers, apprentices, and students.
Service Development and Governance
- Lead in service evaluation, audits, and quality improvement initiatives.
· To hold a caseload of complex clients, offering a NICE concordant package of care, and in accordance with the named worker approach.
· To lead on one of the NICE Concordant Interventions, including delivery and using a Quality Improvement Approach to ensure targets are met within this area.
· To support the development of the role as part of the One Team approach.
· To triage, assess and engage clients who meet the service criteria for ongoing support, and allocate to a named worker.
· To work closely with place-based teams in discussion and support with referrals into the team
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
- Degree/Diploma in Mental Health Nursing
- NMC Registration
- Mental Health – Recovery/rehabilitation approaches
- Significant post-qualification experience in mental health
- Experience of working in community settings
- Supervision of staff or students
- Experience in leadership
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. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
We’re 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.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Godfrey Karambakuwa on 01189044800; email; [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration with an approved professional body
- Leadership or management qualification, or equivalent experience
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Where professionally applicable, teaching and mentoring experience or course
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with people with mental ill health and applying a range of interventions.
- Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency environment
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing complaints and SI investigations
- Mentoring students on practice placement
- Quality improvement activities
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate knowledge of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field
- Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Care Act)
- Evidence of an understanding of the Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
- Detailed understanding of safeguarding and its application of practice
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and IT
Desirable criteria
- Experience and understanding of clinical risk assessment and management and its application in practice
- To demonstrate an understanding of Clinical Governance and its application in practice
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Car User
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Godfrey Karambakuwa
- Job title
- Joint Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01189044800
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