# Senior Mental Health Practitioner

**Company**: Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
**Location**: Slough
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £41,957 to £50,387 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the Slough Community Mental Health Service at New Horizons.

As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you will work autonomously with adults experiencing mental health problems, joining a supportive multidisciplinary team of psychologists, CBT therapists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, nurses, and social workers.

The role combines specialist assessment, recovery-focused care planning, treatment delivery, and positive risk management, with opportunities to support service development and junior colleagues.

**Main Duties of the Job:**

- Hold and prioritise a defined caseload, working autonomously with people who have serious and enduring mental health needs.

- Complete comprehensive mental health assessments, formulations, care plans, crisis plans, and risk assessments.

- Coordinate and deliver evidence-based, recovery-focused interventions in service users' homes, community venues, and team premises.

- Work with the multidisciplinary team, carers, GP practices, local authority colleagues, and partner agencies to develop coordinated packages of health and social care.

- Undertake relevant Care Act 2014 and safeguarding responsibilities on behalf of the joint NHS and local authority service.

- Participate in duty work, maintain accurate and timely Rio records, and contribute to clinical governance and service improvement.

- Provide clinical leadership, supervision, and support to junior staff and students, including guidance on risk assessment and positive risk taking.

- Travel between Trust and community locations as required.

**Benefits of Working for Us:**

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- mental health assessment
- formulation
- treatment planning
- risk management
- recovery-focused interventions
- Care Act 2014
- safeguarding
- clinical leadership
- supervision

### Nice to have
- PSI
- experience of working in community mental health services

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