Mental Health Senior Practitioner for LAP (Local Access Point)

Slough OPMH has an exciting opportunity if you are interested in integrated working and you are a registered social worker, occupational therapist or registered mental health nurse. As a member of the OPMH Service, you will represent BHFT mental health services at locality LAP/Cluster/IPCT meetings and be the main point of contact with local multidisciplinary and multi-agency LAP/Cluster/IPCT meetings. The purpose of these meetings is to deliver an integrated approach to care planning and decision making for frail patients with long term conditions, in line with the Integrated Care Decision Making (ICDM) initiative of the Frimley STP. You will use your specialist mental health knowledge to support formulation within the LAP and meetings as well as to support the multidisciplinary team to identify which patients discussed could benefit from mental health intervention. We are a friendly, dynamic and supportive team and you will have regular access to supervision and peer support in your role, as well as opportunities to prioritise your wellbeing.Main duties of the job To fulfil the requirements of the role, you will need to provide clinical leadership, and offer mental health expertise & guidance to professional colleagues to support integrated decision making and care provision. You will also need to utilise advanced clinical skills and expert knowledge to deliver evidenced based person centred interventions to a small caseload of people with complex mental health needs and offer practical advice and emotional support to their family carers. You will have the opportunity to meet the multiple and often complex needs of frail patients with long term conditions who are discussed at LAP/Cluster/IPCT meetings through on-going joint assessment of health and wellbeing, including risk assessment, developing, implementing and evaluating intervention plans. You will help to identify the appropriate level of psychosocial support for individual patients. To achieve this you will need to be aware of, and understand the full range of support available locally, from third sector through to secondary Mental Health provision. You will have the opportunity to promote the benefits of integrated working to mental health colleagues and maintain strong links with Integration Leads across the network and colleagues from other agencies.

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