Advanced Mental Health Practitioner: Homeless Outreach Liaison

Overview

Slough Borough Council has secured funding through the Rough Sleeper Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grant to support an exciting new role within Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for an Advanced Mental Health Practitioner to work across Turning Point and Community Mental Health Services, helping some of the most vulnerable people in our community access the right support at the right time. This role aims to reduce fragmentation of care by providing joined-up, person-centred support in line with the Community Mental Health Framework (2019).

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver an innovative primary care mental health model.
• Build strong relationships across community services and promote early, proactive assessment.
• Bring expert mental health insight to Turning Point, with regular onsite working.
• Undertake rapid biopsychosocial assessments and deliver brief, evidence-based interventions.
• Work with adults with complex needs, using a biopsychosocial and strengths-based approach.
• Lead on care planning, stepdown pathways and multidisciplinary working.
• Supervise junior colleagues and contribute to the smooth running of the service.
• Engage fully with clinical and managerial supervision and ongoing professional development.
• Deliver specialist psychosocial interventions as part of the role.
• Screening, triage, assessment and collaborative care planning.
• Joint assessments with Slough CMHS and support for transition to primary care.
• Preventing people from “falling through gaps” by leading cohesive partnership working.
• Maintaining high quality clinical records in agreed formats.
• Providing education, problem solving and training to primary care and community partners.
• Supervising students, trainees and junior members of the team.
• Supporting evaluation of the evolving HOLT model and contributing meaningful data to SBC, commissioners and Turning Point.
• Staying up to date with relevant evidence and best practice.
• Supporting service leadership tasks, KPIs and delegated management duties.

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