Senior Mental Health Practitioner
- Wokingham, Berkshire
- £40,617-48,778 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
- 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
- Be a Mental Health Nurse along with relevant professional registration.
- Hold a full UK Driving license and have use of a car for work purposes
- Broad post qualification experience within a mental health setting
- Be a Mental Health Nurse along with relevant professional registration.
- Hold a full UK Driving license and have use of a car for work purposes
- Broad post qualification experience within a mental health setting
- RMN (current NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council) registration)
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
- Diploma in psycho-social interventions, or similar post registration qualification relevant to the post
- Demonstrable experience of working with people who experience serious ongoing mental health problems
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of assessing and managing crisis with those with a severe mental illness
- Experience of contributing to policy and procedure development and implementation
- Experience of managing and supervising other staff
- Experience of managing and monitoring budgets
- Experience of perinatal work
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to assess clinical situations quickly and use initiative
- Good time management skills and ability to prioritise
- Effective team worker
- Good IT skills
- Clinical supervision skills
- Skills in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) or family work
- Research and audit skills
- Group facilitation skills
- Report writing skills
- An understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems and their carers
- Ability to manage stress and work under pressure
- Ability to work to ensure effective communication both within and outside the services
- Personal experience of mental health problems
- RMN (current NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council) registration)
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
- Diploma in psycho-social interventions, or similar post registration qualification relevant to the post
- Demonstrable experience of working with people who experience serious ongoing mental health problems
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of assessing and managing crisis with those with a severe mental illness
- Experience of contributing to policy and procedure development and implementation
- Experience of managing and supervising other staff
- Experience of managing and monitoring budgets
- Experience of perinatal work
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to assess clinical situations quickly and use initiative
- Good time management skills and ability to prioritise
- Effective team worker
- Good IT skills
- Clinical supervision skills
- Skills in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) or family work
- Research and audit skills
- Group facilitation skills
- Report writing skills
- An understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems and their carers
- Ability to manage stress and work under pressure
- Ability to work to ensure effective communication both within and outside the services
- Personal experience of mental health problems