Advanced Practitioner and Medication Lead

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 post holder will:
+ Be a senior practitioner, offering highly specialist advice and guidance to colleagues regarding appropriate treatments and support complex decision making within the service.
+ Have highly developed clinical skills and expert knowledge in dementia pathways and older people with mental health problems.
+ 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 home, 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 Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information.
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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., 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.

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.

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