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Join Our Dynamic Team as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner!

Are you a passionate and enthusiastic professional looking to make a real difference in the field of mental health? Are you looking for a rewarding role with 9am to 5pm working hours and flexible working options available to enhance your work/life balance? Read on to find out more…

The Community Mental Health Team in West Berkshire, based at Hillcroft House, Thatcham, is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our innovative and dynamic team.

We are dedicated to supporting individuals aged 18 to 75 who are experiencing severe and enduring mental illness and we support our clients to understand their experiences and return to college, university or employment.

Why Join Us?

• Impactful Work: You'll play a vital role in helping individuals and their families on their recovery journey.
• Professional Growth: Lead complex cases, provide support and guidance to colleagues, and collaborate with an integrated team of psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, social workers, and STR workers.
• Collaborative Environment: Work closely with local crisis teams, Mental Health Integrated Care Services (MHICS), and other specialist services within BHFT, as well as community services and statutory organisations in West Berkshire.

If you are seeking a new challenge and the opportunity to make a significant impact, we want to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

• 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.
• Deliver and /or contribute to medicines optimisation using a person-values centred approach.
• Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge through provision of highly specialist advice and support to patients, families, BHFT staff and external stakeholders. 
• Demonstrate effective communication and liaison with other care providers in order to ensure high standards of care are maintained.
• Deliver specialist training to BHFT staff and external stakeholders regarding severe and enduring mental illness, psychotropic prescribing and shared decision making.
• Contribute to development and implementation of the service strategy, performance metrics, key objectives and efficient use of resources.
• Undertake and support medicine and physical health-related audits and quality improvement projects. 
• Lead on implementation and support the use of shared care protocols where appropriate.
• 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. 

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

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

If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.

Berkshire Healthcare helps people manage their health in their local area, through a range of specialist and community services across the county. We promote independence and quality of life through community and mental health services and aim for seamless delivery of the best care in the right place. We get to know communities and the people in them so we can deliver the best services that meet their health needs.

Our team of 4,300 staff provide specialist mental health and community health services to a population of around 900,000 within Berkshire. We provide healthcare to people in their own homes and from different sites across the county.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information.

Please ensure your application is submitted with a valid email address for your referees in order to minimise delays in the recruitment process. Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email, therefore applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly.

Applicants are advised that as a result of the high level of response we receive for some of our vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date.

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.

No agencies to contact Berkshire Healthcare directly please.