Advanced Mental Health Practitioner | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	23 Ionawr 2026
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£50,008 - £56,908 per annum (inc. of HCAS)
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	22 Chwefror 2026
Lleoliad:	Maidenhead, SL6 1LD
Cwmni:	Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Cytundeb
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7758059/371-MHS965

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Community Mental Health Services | OneTeam at Place

Are you a passionate and experienced mental health professional looking to make a meaningful impact at senior level? We are seeking a Advanced Mental Health Practitioner to join our WAM Community Mental Health Service, delivering high quality, recovery focused care to adults (18+) with Significant Mental Illness.

You will play a pivotal role within a dynamic multidisciplinary team, working collaboratively with GPs, Specialist Mental Health Services, Social Care and voluntary sector partners. Using a biopsychosocial and strengths based approach, you will ensure people receive timely assessment, evidence based interventions and seamless support across services.

The Role:

You will manage a complex clinical caseload encompassing low, moderate and high risk presentations, providing named worker interventions and expert clinical leadership. As a senior practitioner, you will offer day today guidance, supervision and development for junior clinicians and Community Connectors, supporting effective access to community and voluntary sector resources.

You will take an active lead in clinical decision making, risk management and governance, ensuring safe transitions between services and promoting an “easy in, easy out” model of care. Working closely with senior colleagues, you will contribute to service development, audit, quality improvement and partnership working, embedding a culture of recovery, inclusion and continuous learning.

The Advanced Mental Health Practitioner will provide highquality assessment, formulation and evidencebased interventions for adults (18+) presenting with low, moderate and complex mental health needs within WAM Community Mental Health Services. The post holder will manage a complex clinical caseload, acting as named worker and leading on risk assessment, care planning and clinical decisionmaking in line with recoveryfocused and biopsychosocial models of care.


Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the post holder will collaborate closely with GPs, Specialist Mental Health Services, Social Care and voluntary sector partners to ensure seamless transitions between services and an “easy in, easy out” approach to care. The role includes providing expert clinical advice to the team, contributing to service allocation decisions, escalation to urgent care where required, and supporting safe and effective discharge planning.


As a senior practitioner, the post holder will provide daytoday supervision, guidance and development support to junior clinicians and Community Connectors, promoting strengthsbased practice and effective use of community assets. They will lead on clinical governance and risk management, ensure compliance with Trust policies, maintain highquality clinical records, and contribute to audit, quality improvement and service development activities.


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:
• A relevant professional qualification (e.g. Mental Health Nursing) with current professional registration.
• Significant (5 years) post‑qualification experience of working with adults (18+) experiencing significant or complex mental health needs within community or secondary mental health services.
• Demonstrable experience of managing a complex clinical caseload, including risk assessment, formulation, care planning and delivery of evidence‑based interventions.
• Proven ability to work effectively within a multi‑disciplinary team, and in partnership with primary care, social care, specialist services and voluntary sector organisations.
• Experience of clinical leadership, including providing supervision, guidance or mentorship to junior staff or trainees.
• Strong knowledge and application of clinical governance, safeguarding, risk management and relevant mental health legislation.
• Ability to make sound clinical decisions in complex, high‑risk or urgent situations, including escalation pathways.
• Commitment to recovery‑focused, strengths‑based and person‑centred practice, using a biopsychosocial approach.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage service users, carers and professionals sensitively and effectively.
• A strong understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion, delivering culturally responsive and respectful care.
• Confidence in maintaining high‑quality clinical records and using electronic patient record systems in line with policy.
• Commitment to continuous professional development, quality improvement and reflective practice.

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: Polite Tshuma on 07476 681686 or email: Polite.Tshuma@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 1 Feb 2026

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