Advanced Mental Health Practitioner: Homeless Outreach Liaison

Job overview

Slough Borough Council has secured funding through the Rough Sleeper Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grant to support an exciting new role within Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a passionate and skilled Advanced Mental Health Practitioner to work across Turning Point and Community Mental Health Services, helping some of the most vulnerable people in our community access the right support at the right time.

Many individuals experience overlapping mental health, substance use, housing, and criminal justice challenges, yet are often supported by only one service. This role is designed to change that. Working in line with the Community Mental Health Framework (2019), you will help create genuinely joined up care, ensuring people are not lost between services and can access holistic, person-centred support.

Main duties of the job

• Shape and deliver an innovative primary care mental health model.
• Build strong relationships across community services and promote early, proactive assessment.
• Bring expert mental health insight to Turning Point, with regular onsite working.
• Undertake rapid biopsychosocial assessments and deliver brief, evidence-based interventions.
• Work with adults with complex needs, using a biopsychosocial and strengths-based approach.
• Lead on care planning, stepdown pathways and multidisciplinary working.
• Supervise junior colleagues and contribute to the smooth running of the service.
• Engage fully with clinical and managerial supervision and ongoing professional development.
• Deliver specialist psychosocial interventions as part of the role
• Screening, triage, assessment and collaborative care planning.

• Joint assessments with Slough CMHS and support for transition to primary care.

• Preventing people from “falling through gaps” by leading cohesive partnership working.

• Maintaining high quality clinical records in agreed formats.

• Providing education, problem solving and training to primary care and community partners.

• Supervising students, trainees and junior members of the team.

• Supporting evaluation of the evolving HOLT model and contributing meaningful data to SBC, commissioners and Turning Point.

• Staying up to date with relevant evidence and best practice.

• Supporting service leadership tasks, KPIs and delegated management duties.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• Current registration (RMN, Social Worker, OT, or equivalent). • At least two years’ post-registration mental health experience. • Experience supporting adults and older adults with complex/severe mental illness. • Strong clinical risk assessment and management skills. • Evidence of effective partnership working across agencies. • Experience supervising and developing junior colleagues. • Excellent IT, communication and decisionmaking skills. • Ability to work under pressure, manage change and handle conflict sensitively. • Strong understanding of health inequalities and recoveryfocused practice. • Knowledge of psychotropic medications, assessment tools and relevant policies.

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: Eunice on 01753690950 or email: [email protected] 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.