Job summary
- Main area
- CMHS WAM
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-MHS1183-A
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nicholsons House, Nicholsons Walk, Maidenhead, SL6 1LD
- Town
- Maidenhead
- Salary
- £33,677 - £40,996 per annum (Incl. of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP)
Band 5
Job overview
The post holder will be joining a well-established operational team working within the Adults Community Mental Health Team in WAM (Windsor, Ascot & Maidenhead) Our working hours are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, full-time
The WAM Community Mental Health Service is a multi-disciplinary team comprised Community Mental Health nurses, consultant psychiatrists, psychologists, psychological therapists, community connectors, Lived Experienced Workers, Employment Specialists, and Administrators/reception staff. The CMHS is funded by Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
You will work within the WAM Community Integrated Mental Health Services. You will hold a caseload and focus on delivery of a specific time-limited intervention using the recovery model. The care and treatment will focus on empowering service users to use their strengths, skills and special interest to help in their recovery whilst under the secondary services working with our Multidisciplinary Team. You will be offered regular clinical supervision and support from the Clinical Lead.
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. 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The 3 "must haves" for you to be considered for this role:
- 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
Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.
In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Komal Cassidy on 0118 904 7300 or email: [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education, qualifications or Training
Essential criteria
- Qualified Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner- Mandatory annual registration with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) or the British Psychological Society (BPS). OR Postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice
- Experience of running groups/activities
- Experience of being supervised
Desirable criteria
- Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality
- Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
- Liaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users
- Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individual’s health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan
- Ability to manage caseload and undertake comprehensive risk assessments drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, jointly with supervisor
- Able to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the team’s understanding and formulation of service users’ difficulties and development of a multi-disciplinary care plan
- Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically informed interventions to meet people’s health and wellbeing needs
- Able to assist in maintaining own and others health safety and security
- Monitor and maintain physical and/ or financial resources for a work area
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, tailored to a variety of audiences, making reasonable adjustments where appropriate in order to optimise peoples understanding
- Computer literate and skills to collect, collate and report on clients progress - including knowledge of Microsoft Office including high standard of letter and report writing
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to work in a variety of adult community mental health settings which may often include unpleasant working conditions such as verbal aggression or high levels of distress.
- Able to work flexibly and travel independently between locations to fulfil the requirements of the position
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Komal Cassidy
- Job title
- Clinical Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0118 904 7300
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