Job summary
- Main area
- Care Pathways Newbury
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.45 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-TAPMHS980-A
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hillcroft House
- Town
- Thatcham
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Community MH Team (West Berkshire)
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you a passionate and experienced clinician looking to make a meaningful impact in community mental health? This is an exciting opportunity to join the team at a time of development and positive change, with the successful candidate helping to shape the future direction of the service.
We support adults aged 18–75 with severe and enduring mental illness, promoting recovery, independence, and improved quality of life. As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will deliver high-quality, person-centred care while providing strong clinical leadership within a multidisciplinary team of around 40 staff.
You will lead on complex clinical cases, provide support and guidance to colleagues, and help ensure the service continues to deliver safe, effective, and recovery-focused care to empower individuals to understand their experiences and work towards goals such as returning to college, university, or employment.
This part-time role (18.75 hours) offers flexible working with no fixed days, alongside excellent opportunities for professional development and a strong work–life balance.
Applications for this vacancy will be considered in the order in which they are received, the vacancy may close early if the right candidate is found. We recommend you apply today to ensure you don’t miss out on starting your journey with us!
Main duties of the job
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Contribute to the delivery of specialist interventions, with a particular focus on psychosocial interventions, physical health/wellbeing and supporting informed treatment decisions in severe and enduring mental illness.
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Deliver and /or contribute to medicines optimisation using a person-values centred approach.
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Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge through provision of highly specialist advice and support to patients, families, BHFT staff and external stakeholders.
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Demonstrate effective communication and liaison with other care providers in order to ensure high standards of care are maintained.
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Deliver specialist training to BHFT staff and external stakeholders regarding severe and enduring mental illness, psychotropic prescribing and shared decision making.
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Contribute to development and implementation of the service strategy, performance metrics, key objectives and efficient use of resources.
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Undertake and support medicine and physical health-related audits and quality improvement projects.
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Lead on implementation and support the use of shared care protocols where appropriate.
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Undertake a fluid and flexible approach to work.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
- Professional qualification as a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist (OT), with current registration with the relevant professional body.
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant specialty (e.g. Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Non-Medical Prescriber, CBT or Psychosocial Interventions) or equivalent proven experience.
- Substantial experience at Band 7 level or above within the relevant specialty area.
- Proven leadership experience within a clinical or service setting.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
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.
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.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Maureen Rawson 0118 9043200, or email: [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional registration NMC, SW, OT
- Post graduate qualification in specific speciality or equivalent experience
- Teaching and mentoring qualification or demonstrable skills
Desirable criteria
- MSc level qualification or equivalen
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 5 years post-registration experience (Band 7 or above) in speciality area
- Evidence of on-going CPD
- Evidence of teaching in a variety of environments
- Experience working with service users who present with challenging and complex behaviour
- Experience in clinical audit
- Experience in project facilitation
- Experience of MDT mental health team working
- Experience of providing information to mental health patients
- Experience in supervising staff
- Experience in training of other staff
- Demonstrate an understanding of the key stakeholders the post is likely to be supporting and how they will be expected to support them
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal skills for communicating with public and other healthcare professionals
- Ability to demonstrate attention to detail, accuracy and numeracy/ calculation skills
- Advanced IT skills
- Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge and skills
- Ability to critically appraise research and incorporate into practice
- Ability to prioritise and manage own workload
- Effective organisation and time management skills
- Demonstrates support for the values and beliefs of the patient group and those of the Trust
Additional requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel across sites
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Maureen Rawson
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07770645048
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