Deputy Service Manager, Berkshire Psychological Medicine Service
| Posting date: | 10 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 January 2026 |
| Location: | Reading, RG1 5AN |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7673876/371-MHS933-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of Deputy Service Manager for the Psychological Medicines Service, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading.
The post-holder will be an enthusiastic and self-motivated mental health clinician who will act as the clinical lead for this busy psychological medicine service.
This dynamic liaison psychiatry service assesses and supports people with mental health problems who have been referred by the Emergency Department and the Wards, and the age range includes adults over 18 years old and older adults over 65 years old.
The services are delivered by multi-disciplinary teams whichoperate 24 hours per day.
Part of this role will be developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholder colleagues.
You will work 37.5 hours per week, over five days and be based in Royal Berkshire Hospital.
Responsible for ensuring the delivery of high standard, evidence-based service that puts safety, quality and the service user experience at the centre of the service.
Maintain staffing levels and the high quality of service delivered, in collaboration with the Service Manager
To provide innovative professional leadership to ensure and consistently develop a high quality, safe and cost-effective service for service users, working in partnership with key stakeholders internal and external to the Trust.
To line manage service teams and provide leadership and clinical support across the service, addressing staffing issues across the service where required
To plan and manage resource requirements to meet the needs of the service
To support team members to work independently to carry out skilled and comprehensive psychosocial assessments.
To ensure the team provides the Acute hospital staff with specialist advice, support and supervision.
To ensure provision of evidence based high quality, timely and comprehensive assessments and treatment to patients referred.
To develop our understanding of liaison psychiatry work in order to improve the clinical care patients receive within the emergency department and ward settings
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
The “must haves” for this role:
• Professional mental health qualification such as RMN, Social Worker or Occupational therapist
• Built up substantial experience as a band 7 clinician
• Experience of working in Mental Health Urgent Care Services
• Experience of working with complex caseloads
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: Sue Barclay on 07890 606956 or email: Suzanne.barclay@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 Monday 22 Dec 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of Deputy Service Manager for the Psychological Medicines Service, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading.
The post-holder will be an enthusiastic and self-motivated mental health clinician who will act as the clinical lead for this busy psychological medicine service.
This dynamic liaison psychiatry service assesses and supports people with mental health problems who have been referred by the Emergency Department and the Wards, and the age range includes adults over 18 years old and older adults over 65 years old.
The services are delivered by multi-disciplinary teams whichoperate 24 hours per day.
Part of this role will be developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholder colleagues.
You will work 37.5 hours per week, over five days and be based in Royal Berkshire Hospital.
Responsible for ensuring the delivery of high standard, evidence-based service that puts safety, quality and the service user experience at the centre of the service.
Maintain staffing levels and the high quality of service delivered, in collaboration with the Service Manager
To provide innovative professional leadership to ensure and consistently develop a high quality, safe and cost-effective service for service users, working in partnership with key stakeholders internal and external to the Trust.
To line manage service teams and provide leadership and clinical support across the service, addressing staffing issues across the service where required
To plan and manage resource requirements to meet the needs of the service
To support team members to work independently to carry out skilled and comprehensive psychosocial assessments.
To ensure the team provides the Acute hospital staff with specialist advice, support and supervision.
To ensure provision of evidence based high quality, timely and comprehensive assessments and treatment to patients referred.
To develop our understanding of liaison psychiatry work in order to improve the clinical care patients receive within the emergency department and ward settings
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
The “must haves” for this role:
• Professional mental health qualification such as RMN, Social Worker or Occupational therapist
• Built up substantial experience as a band 7 clinician
• Experience of working in Mental Health Urgent Care Services
• Experience of working with complex caseloads
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: Sue Barclay on 07890 606956 or email: Suzanne.barclay@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 Monday 22 Dec 2025
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