Job summary
- Main area
- WAM MHICS
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term end date will be determined after pre-employment checks have been completed)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-MHS965
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nicholsons House
- Town
- Maidenhead
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum (inc. of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Mental Health Practitioner
Band 7
Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
The Advanced Mental Health Practitioner will provide high quality assessment, formulation and evidence based 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 decision making in line with recovery focused 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 day today supervision, guidance and development support to junior clinicians and Community Connectors, promoting strengths based practice and effective use of community assets. They will lead on clinical governance and risk management, ensure compliance with Trust policies, maintain high quality clinical records, and contribute to audit, quality improvement and service development activities.
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. 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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: [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.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Train ing
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration with an approved professional body
- Leadership or management qualification, or equivalent experience
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Where professionally applicable, teaching and mentoring experience or course
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with people with mental ill health and applying a range of interventions.
- Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency environment
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing complaints and SI investigations
- Mentoring students on practice placement
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate knowledge of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field
- Evidence of an understanding of the Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
- Detailed understanding of safeguarding and its application of practice
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and IT
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of relevant legislation (eg. Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Care Act 2014)
- Experience and understanding of clinical risk assessment and management and its application in practice
- To demonstrate an understanding of Clinical Governance and its application in practice
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Car User
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Polite Tshuma
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07476 681686
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