Advanced Mental Health Practitioner | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The Newbury Community Older Adults Mental Health Team is looking for an enthusiastic, caring and highly motivated Memory Clinic Clinical Lead to join our friendly and innovative Community Team.

You will be based at Hillcroft House, West Berkshire Community Hospital where we have access to free parking facilities, a staff room and most importantly a friendly and supportive welcoming team. The service are working flexibly with opportunities to work remotely at times, frequency depending upon service need.

The Newbury Older Adult Mental Health Service is a multi-disciplinary team with specialist skills in caring for older people with mental health needs in the community. The post holder will be a senior practitioner with highly developed clinical skills working with patients in the Older Adults Mental Health Specialism. He/she will be offering high quality memory clinic assessments under the supervision of the service Drs. You will be supporting the smooth running of the service alongside the Memory Clinic Team Lead, offering supervision, education and highly specialist advice to colleagues and other agencies.

The successful candidate must display a passion and understanding for working with Older

People, appropriate training and support will be provided as needed.

You must be enthusiastic, caring and highly motivated to contribute towards maintaining standards of high-quality care to our patients.

• The post holder will offer high quality memory clinic assessments and where appropriate deliver diagnosis under the expert supervision of the memory clinic service doctors.
• The post holder will complete high standard assessment documentation and communication.
• The post holder will provide expert advice to patients, families, and carers in addition to the multi- disciplinary team, students, and community services.
• The post holder will support the Memory Clinic Team Lead to offer supervision, guidance, and advice to junior colleagues.
• The post holder will work alongside the Memory Clinic Team Lead to ensure the smooth effective and efficient running of the team.
• The post holder will be involved in the development of the memory clinic service, taking part in Quality Improvement projects, and supporting/assisting with the process of MSNAP re-accreditation.
• The post holder will support the completion of service audits.
• The post holder will offer input to the Duty Worker rota.

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

The “must haves” for you to be considered for this role

1. Have the relevant professional qualification

1. A passion and in-depth knowledge and experience of working with Older People

1. Drive to be take a key role in service development.

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For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being 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: 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

Suzanne

Wilson on 01189043100 or email

suzanne.wilson@berkshire.nhs.uk 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.

This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Apr 2026

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