About this role
Job summary
Job Title: Mental Health Practitioner - 89425
Trust: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Prospect Park Hospital, Reading RG30 4EJ
Ward: Reading Community Mental Health Service
Banding: Band 6
Pay Rates: £23.82 p/h excluding holiday pay
Shift Patterns: 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
Why might this job interest you?
Berkshire Healthcares vision is to provide the best care in the right place; developing and delivering excellent services in local communities with people and their families to improve their health, well-being and independence. We pride ourselves in recruiting staff who display our values and the right behaviours and work hard to create a culture which respects all of our staff for the unique contribution they make to ensuring high quality care is delivered.
Main duties of the job
Ensure services are delivered in a manner that is appropriate, relevant, and respectful to all community members, recognizing the diversity of ethnicity, culture, belief, privilege and capacity of service users and carers.
Formulate and design physical interventions as part of the service users care plan, ensuring that clinical policies and procedures are followed correctly and risks inherent in any procedures are minimised.
Work closely with colleagues in specialist community mental health services to ensure smooth transitions between teams and services and facilitate an easy in, easy out approach to improve access to evidence-based interventions.
Effectively manage complex and sensitive situations and condition related information and situations to service users, other professionals, and external agencies, where there may be barriers to understanding or a hostile and antagonistic working environment.
Provide brief support and time limited evidence-based interventions, using the principles of motivational interviewing and complete joint assessments with other professionals, including CMHT, Adult Social Care, GPs etc.
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for a more detailed breakdown of the duties and responsibilities of this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Mental Health Practitioner. Degree in health/social care or equivalent qualification/experience.
Experience Essential
Previous knowledge and experience of working in the community and with service users who have complex mental health needs. Community experience in mental health services for adults and older age adults with severe/significant mental illness.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name NHS Professionals Limited
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Employer's website https://www.nhsprofessionals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)