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Job overview

The integrated care practitioner role is well established within Bracknell. If you are energetic, a team player with a good skillset for autonomous working and decision making; you will be the right person to come and work as part of the Integrated Care Team.  

The role is truly situated in between the services to prevent people falling between the gaps; you will be able to guide the person on correct pathway so there are “no wrong doors”. You are working closely with community nursing colleagues as well as local authority colleagues from Bracknell Forest, discussing new referrals and completing home visits.    

This is a hybrid role, whilst being able to work from home, you’ll also have opportunity to work at Bracknell CMHT OA, Church Hill House and Bracknell Forest Council, Time Square.   

 You will be a well-respected member of Bracknell CMHT for Older Adults and the Integrated Care Team, this is a matrix management model - your operational supervision will be provided by the service manager of the Integrated Service, your clinical supervision will be provided from Bracknell CMHTOA.  

Your caseload will come from the work you undertake within the Integrated Care Team, you will work closely both Adult Social Care and CMHTOA in Bracknell, you’ll attend referrals meeting to provide steer as part of the integrated work.  

Main duties of the job

• To represent BHFT mental health services at locality LAP/Cluster/Care Home meetings. To screen referrals, identify any further information which needs more exploration to be able to identify a correct pathway. 

• To provide clinical leadership, and offer mental health expertise & guidance to professional colleagues and assist in formulation to support integrated decision making and care provision 

• To meet the multiple and often complex needs of frail patients with long term conditions who are discussed, through on-going joint assessment of health and wellbeing, including risk assessment, developing, implementing and evaluating intervention plans. 

• To support the multidisciplinary team to identify which patients discussed could benefit from mental health intervention. 

• To work as an autonomous practitioner, taking responsibility for mental health assessments establishing a formulation and implementing the clinical management required. 

• For those patients not requiring secondary mental health input, to support navigation of the health and social care system by recommending the most appropriate level of psychological support from the range of provisions available.  

• To hold a small caseload requiring more complex mental health support.  

Working for our organisation

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.

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues 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 solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

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
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites

Berkshire Healthcare helps people manage their health in their local area, through a range of specialist and community services across the county. We promote independence and quality of life through community and mental health services and aim for seamless delivery of the best care in the right place. We get to know communities and the people in them so we can deliver the best services that meet their health needs.

Our team of 4,300 staff provide specialist mental health and community health services to a population of around 900,000 within Berkshire. We provide healthcare to people in their own homes and from different sites across the county.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information.

Please ensure your application is submitted with a valid email address for your referees in order to minimise delays in the recruitment process. Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email, therefore applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly.

Applicants are advised that as a result of the high level of response we receive for some of our vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date.

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.

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