Senior Mental Health Practitioner | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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This is an exciting opportunity for you to join our Stabilisation Team where you will find yourself primarily working with people with emotionally unstable personality disorder.
Do you feel like you never have the time or space to work with clients in real and meaningful ways? Do you find you’re left holding risks on your own? Although the work can be stressful the team is structured around ensuring risk is thought about, shared and held collectively.We prioritise considerable space for reflection and supervision both with colleagues and senior staff.
We welcome qualified Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers and Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to apply for this Band 7 opportunity. Experience dependent, this position may be offered as a progression post from Band 6 to 7.
You will be joining a small, progressive team comprising of mental healthpractitioners, a Lived Experience Practitioner and a Clinical Psychologist.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and dynamic professional who is genuinely interested in working with individuals who experience emotional instability. We require a reflective practitioner, who is compassionate and considerate towards others and able to work with positive risk for the benefit of individuals.
The Team’s current operating hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Aims:- To reduce occupied bed days and facilitate timely discharge
- To reduce readmission to inpatient services
- To identify treatment needs and refer within the EUPD pathway as necessary or wider services
- Community based
- Offer short-term (up to 12 weeks) intensive individual psychologically informed interventions for stabilisation
- Flexibility to be eclectic in interventions
- Collaborative approach based on the individuals needs and priorities towards a life worth living
- Contribute towards the psychological formulation of the individual
- Work collaboratively and with colleagues and other teams to manage risk in a positive and inclusive way
- Supporting other services and treatment teams
- Supervision of junior staff within a multidisciplinary team
- Weekly team supervision and support
- Monthly individual supervision offered as a minimum with an identified supervisor
- If desired, there may be opportunities to work across ASSIST and other IMPACTT services.
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
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
- Free parking across Trust sites
We require a reflective practitioner, who is compassionate and considerate towards others and able to work with positive risk for the benefit of individuals.
Our base is at Erlegh House on the University of Reading Whiteknights campus. This is a spacious parkland site and is a very pleasant setting. There is sufficient car parking which is free and includes electric vehicle charge points.
The 4 “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:- An interest and enthusiasm to work with individuals who have a diagnosis of EUPD/emotion dysregulation
- Degree level Professional qualification (Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapy, Social worker, Clinical/Counselling Psychologist and current professional registration)
- Minimum of 2 years’ post qualification experience of working with adults with mental health problems
- Car driver & possess full UK driver’s license or evidence of ability to travel to designated base & other sites to fulfil the requirements of the position.
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 are 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: Alison McClements (Team Lead) on 07890 597244 or email: Alison.Mcclements@berkshire.nhs.uk and/or Heather Tomlinson (Clinical Lead Psychologist) on 07976 430992 or email: Heather.Tomlinson@berkshire.nhs.uk 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.
This advert closes on Sunday 29 Sep 2024