Job overview

Are you an experienced registered Mental Health Nurse looking to secure the next step in your career or to take on a new challenge within Older People’s Mental Health Services? If so, we are currently looking for an enthusiastic Senior Practitioner to join our fantastic team.

You will have specialist knowledge of the care of older people with mental health conditions and an understanding of the challenges that older adults face and how these impacts on their well-being. You will hold a small caseload of complex cases and lead by example demonstrating exemplary clinical and management standards. 

As a member of the wider OPMH Service, you will be the main point of contact with local multidisciplinary and multi-agency Locality Access Point (LAP)/Cluster meetings and support formulation within the meetings. The purpose of these meetings is to deliver an integrated approach to assessment, care planning and decision making for frail patients with long term conditions, in line with the Integrated Care Decision Making (ICDM) initiative of the Frimley Integrated Care System. You will help to identify the appropriate level of psychosocial support for individual patients. To achieve this, you will need to be aware and understand the full range of support available locally, from third sector through to secondary MH provision. You will also be required to develop close relationships with other Integration Leads across the Frimley system and promote integrated working.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake comprehensive initial assessments in a range of settings following acceptance of referral, considering the persons physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs. 
• To develop and implement an agreed plan of care with the service user and where appropriate, include the views of families and carers. 
• To identify and select from a range of health, social and voluntary agencies which could assist and improve the care of individuals and their families. 
• To represent BHFT mental health services at locality LAP/Cluster meetings.
• To provide clinical leadership and offer mental health expertise & guidance to professional colleagues and assist in formulation to support integrated decision making and care provision.
• To utilise advanced clinical skills and expert knowledge to deliver evidenced based person-centred interventions to a small caseload of people with complex mental health needs and offer practical advice and emotional support to their family carers.
• To contribute to and influence the development and improvement of anticipatory care planning.
• To have knowledge of a variety of therapeutic interventions including short term problem solving, crisis intervention and basic CBT techniques.
• To manage complex caseloads and maintain responsibility for clinical decision-making within professional accountability frameworks for patients requiring secondary care mental health support
  
  

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

FOR SECONDMENT ROLES ONLY  - If the secondment role becomes permanent, the successful candidate may be offered the permanent position.

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We welcome talent from all backgrounds and offer guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants and armed forces community members who meet the minimum criteria.

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