Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Job Title: Mental Health Practitioner

Trust: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Prospect Park Hospital, Reading RG30 4EJ

Ward:Reading Community Mental Health Service

Banding: Band 6

Pay Rates: £23.82 p/h excluding holiday pay

Shift Patterns: 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

Why might this job interest you?

Berkshire Healthcares vision is to provide the best care in the rightplace;developing and delivering excellent services in local communities with people and their families to improve their health,well-beingand independence. We pride ourselves in recruiting staff who display our values and the right behaviours and work hard to create a culture which respectsall ofour staff for the unique contribution they make to ensuring high quality care is delivered.

Main duties of the job

Communicate complex and sensitive information and advice to service users, carers, and professionals, including information about diagnosis and prognosis, to find ways of enabling the information to be understood, providing empathy and reassurance.

Positively promote independent living of service users within the community by promoting independent daily living within the local community (living ordinary lives) through regular and practical support to individuals and their carers.

Responsible for the accurate maintenance of clinical record keeping and the required communication of individual patient care packages for the post holders area of responsibility/specialism.

Provide effective analysis of a range of facts and inputs to establish and apply anevidenced based formulation and options of care that can be negotiated with the service users and appropriate judgments made that best improve the opportunity of the service users recovery and which mitigates risk to themselves or others.

Working alongside service users to identify their needs and goals utilising the RiO assessment, Trust agreed outcomes measures and the Wellness, Recovery Action Plan.

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