Advanced Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

The Newbury Community Older Adults Mental Health Team is looking for an enthusiastic, caring and highly motivated Memory Clinic Clinical Lead to join our friendly and innovative Community Team.

You will be based at Hillcroft House, West Berkshire Community Hospital where we have access to free parking facilities, a staff room and most importantly a friendly and supportive welcoming team. The service are working flexibly with opportunities to work remotely at times, frequency depending upon service need.

The Newbury Older Adult Mental Health Service is a multi-disciplinary team with specialist skills in caring for older people with mental health needs in the community.   The post holder will be a senior practitioner with highly developed clinical skills working with patients in the Older Adults Mental Health Specialism. He/she will be offering high quality memory clinic assessments under the supervision of the service Drs. You will be supporting the smooth running of the service alongside the Memory Clinic Team Lead, offering supervision, education and highly specialist advice to colleagues and other agencies.

The successful candidate must display a passion and understanding for working with Older People, appropriate training and support will be provided as needed.    You must be enthusiastic, caring and highly motivated to contribute towards maintaining standards of high-quality care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will offer high quality memory clinic assessments and where appropriate deliver diagnosis under the expert supervision of the memory clinic service doctors.

• The post holder will complete high standard assessment documentation and communication.

• The post holder will provide expert advice to patients, families, and carers in addition to the multi- disciplinary team, students, and community services.

• The post holder will support the Memory Clinic Team Lead to offer supervision, guidance, and advice to junior colleagues.

• The post holder will work alongside the Memory Clinic Team Lead to ensure the smooth effective and efficient running of the team.

• The post holder will be involved in the development of the memory clinic service, taking part in Quality Improvement projects, and supporting/assisting with the process of MSNAP re-accreditation.

• The post holder will support the completion of service audits.

• The post holder will offer input to the Duty Worker rota.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:

• Have the relevant professional qualification

• A passion and in-depth knowledge and experience of working with Older People

• Drive to be take a key role in service development.

• Car Driver

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: Suzanne Wilson on 01189043100 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.