Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Exciting Opportunity for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Memory Clinic.

Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker looking for the next step in your career? Whether you're seeking a fresh challenge or the chance to deepen your expertise in Older People's Mental Health Services, this Memory Clinic role offers variety, professional growth, and a supportive team environment.

Why Join Us?

Diverse Experience: Rotate across teams including the CMHTe, and HTT, gaining a breadth of knowledge.

Autonomy & Impact: Manage your own caseload while collaborating with colleagues across statutory and voluntary sectors.

Specialist Interests: Focus on areas such as supporting carers, working with Younger People with Dementia, or shaping service development.

Professional Growth: Contribute to training, education, audits, and research to influence best practices.

Based at Nicholson House, Maidenhead, you'll provide community-based support, visiting clients in their homes. A car is required for travel. While much of our work is virtual, occasional in-person team meetings, training, and service events take place at our office base.

If you're ready for a rewarding, flexible, and impactful role, we'd love to hear from you!

Applications for this role will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early.

Main duties of the job

Comprehensive Assessments: UndertakingMemory assessments of patients and conduct semi-structured interviews with family members and others involved in a patient's care.Conduct assessments in various settings, including patients' homes, considering physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs.

Caseload Management: Oversee and coordinate an assigned caseload, ensuring care aligns with the Memory Clinic Care Pathway.

Clinical Support: Assist medical staff in Memory Clinics using assessment tools (MOCA, ACE, etc.) and gathering collaborative patient histories.

Medication & Care Monitoring: Conduct Memory Clinic reviews to track patient responses to prescribed medications and adjust care plans accordingly.

Care Planning & Coordination: Develop, evaluate, and adapt personalised care plans, involving families, carers, and appropriate health, social, and voluntary agencies.

Crisis & Referral Management: Respond to acute psychiatric issues, accept new referrals, and apply therapeutic interventions such as crisis intervention, problem-solving, and Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) techniques.

Liaison & Communication: Maintain strong partnerships with Primary Care, Local Authorities, and Voluntary Organisations to ensure seamless patient care.

Service & Quality Improvement: Contribute to service development projects, ensuring high standards of care and compliance with CPA and Risk Assessment policies.

About us

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:

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

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