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Join our dynamic and compassionate Community Perinatal Mental Health Team in Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner, where you will play a pivotal role in supporting women and birthing people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties during pregnancy and in their postnatal period.

If you are passionate about maternal mental health, early intervention, and making a lasting impact on the birthing population and their families, this is an opportunity to grow your career in a forward-thinking and supportive environment.

This role is 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday Service. The Team’s base is at Resource house in Wokingham where you are surrounded by local cafés and shops. The role combines both remote, community and office working with hot desking bases across Berkshire.

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In this rewarding role, you will act as a Care Coordinator, delivering high-quality, trauma-informed, and evidence-based interventions to birthing people and their families at a crucial stage of life.

You’ll undertake comprehensive specialist assessments, develop collaborative care plans, and provide or transfer into therapeutic interventions that promote recovery, resilience, and positive parent–infant relationships.

You will be working autonomously and collaboratively within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team—including other MH practitioners’ psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health wellbeing practitioner’s nursery nurses and support workers and closely linked to specialist midwives, health visitors, other community MH teams and social care partners.

You’ll contribute your expertise to risk management, safeguarding, and case formulation. You’ll also liaise closely with maternity services, health visiting, adult MH services, primary care, and community agencies to ensure seamless, holistic care and recovery in the community.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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

At Berkshire Healthcare, we foster an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs.

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We welcome talent from all backgrounds and offer guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants and armed forces community members who meet the minimum criteria.

Please note we may close positions before the advertised date.

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