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Job overview

As part of the Crisis and HTT, you will work closely with our Psychology Team and the multidisciplinary team by offering support and assessment to patients. Dynamic and capable, you will be comfortable with carrying out psychometric assessments and structured observations, conducting semi-structured interviews and gathering self-report data.

With excellent communication and people skills, you will be calm, confident and assertive in emotionally demanding situations. You will be expected to set and maintain professional boundaries when dealing with distressing or hostile situations and behaviour. You will be a member of the CRT Team operating from the hub and the Home Treatment Teams across West Berkshire. You will be required to liaise with other relevant services such as CMHT.

Self-motivated and confident working without direct supervision, you will show initiative and a determination to support patients and their families through creative engagement. Enthusiastic to share your knowledge, you will be an inspirational member of our team, striving to be your very best and supporting colleagues with teaching and project work.

Great with Microsoft Office packages, data handling and digital platforms, you will assist with relevant service evaluation and audit projects, data collection, data analysis and report writing. 

Your energy and drive will be rewarded with the support of a dedicated team that strives to create a progressive, warm, friendly and compassionate environment.

Main duties of the job

• You will be contributing to assessment, e.g. direct observations, formal psychometric testing, semi-structured interviews
• You will co-ordinate and assist in the development and delivery of groups as the service requires and will also be required to occasionally work individually with service users and their family/carer’s to deliver evidence-based psychological interventions.
• Writing appropriate notes and clear care plans is essential for a smooth experience of the service user within the service. You may be required to draft reports / letters.
• Liaison with other services is a key part of your role.
• Developing and disseminating information for service users, carers, colleagues, referrers, and commissioners
• Literature searches, e.g. to inform best practice and undertake tasks associated with research, audit and service evaluations
• Tasks associated with service development projects

Working for our organisation

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.

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

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
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites

Berkshire Healthcare helps people manage their health in their local area, through a range of specialist and community services across the county. We promote independence and quality of life through community and mental health services and aim for seamless delivery of the best care in the right place. We get to know communities and the people in them so we can deliver the best services that meet their health needs.

Our team of 4,300 staff provide specialist mental health and community health services to a population of around 900,000 within Berkshire. We provide healthcare to people in their own homes and from different sites across the county.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information.

Please ensure your application is submitted with a valid email address for your referees in order to minimise delays in the recruitment process. Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email, therefore applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly.

Applicants are advised that as a result of the high level of response we receive for some of our vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date.

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.

No agencies to contact Berkshire Healthcare directly please.