Advanced Practitioner and Medication Lead

at  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Interviews will be held on 23 May 2024.
The Wokingham Older Adult Mental Health Service is looking for an Advanced Practitioner and Medication Lead to work primarily within our Memory Clinic. The post holder will be a Non-Medical Prescriber and have highly developed clinical skills and expert knowledge in dementia pathways and older people with mental health problems .
The post holder must be enthusiastic, caring and highly motivated to contribute towards maintaining our standards of high quality care to our patients.
Wokingham Memory Clinic is proud to be an accredited Memory Clinic by the Royal College of Psychiatrists Memory Services National Accreditation Programme (MSNAP). Combined with being an ‘Outstanding’, well-led, organisation, and having an ‘Outstanding’ Older Adults Community Mental Health Team in our latest CQC inspection. The post holder would therefore be expected to work towards helping the service maintain these accolades of high standards.
This post is 24 hours a week – ideally over 3 days, days and times to be agreed.
Responsibilities include: supervising medication reviews, medication side effects and providing high quality psychoeducation to staff as well as patients and carers. In addition, the role will directly supervise the prescription administrator, providing high quality transfer of prescribing into primary care. Furthermore, the post holder will complete initial assessments / feedbacks, and provide duty triage support where required.

THE “MUST HAVES” FOR YOU TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE:

1. Have the relevant professional qualification ( Mental Health Nurse)
2. Hold an active non-medical prescriber qualification.
3. You will be an experienced practitioner with the relevant mental health / clinical experience.
4. Be a car driver with the ability and readiness to travel.
   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. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
   If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
   We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Clare Leask on 0118 904 7200 or email: clare.leask@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.
   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

It is essential that you will be a non-medical prescriber and undertake the role of - Nurse Prescriber within the clinical area / setting of Wokingham Older Adult Mental Health Service.

• Undertake comprehensive assessments and follow ups in a range of settings including the patient’s own hom