Job summary
Based at Prospect Park Hospital, with additional travel across Berkshire a requirement of the role.
Some degree of working pattern flexibility will be required to fit with shift patterns.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust can provide you with a dynamic, people-centred environment. We value our employees and put people first. Berkshire Healthcare is committed to compassionate care and was recently rated 'Outstanding' by CQC. As a Global Digital Exemplar, we will provide you with an excellent working environment.
Working in a passionate team, you will have access to our Trust-wide Learning and Development programme and be supported in your career and personal growth, with opportunities to help you build your Continuing Professional Development portfolio, enabling you to extend your skills and ensure that you excel.
We are pioneers in compassionate leadership and Quality Improvement, which is about creating a culture where everyone has a voice and where service users and staff collaborate to have a direct impact on the things that matter most.
Main duties of the job
Are you solution-focused, inquisitive, self-motivated and enjoy being part of a team? Are you especially passionate about supporting the wellbeing of staff working on inpatient wards? Are you eager to build on your experience to apply your specialist knowledge and interests and develop your potential further within the area of Staff Support?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join Wellbeing Matters, a new, energetic, friendly and progressive Staff Support team. We are looking to enhance our wellbeing support offer to staff who experience verbal or physical assaults across Berkshire Healthcare, with a key component of this role being directly focused on the support needs of staff working on the inpatient wards at Prospect Park Hospital. You will also be an integral part of the Wellbeing Matters staff support team, delivering psychological interventions, training, and consultation on all aspects of staff psychosocial wellbeing, including in Staff Support Post Incident (SSPI), and provision of reflective practice groups.
Using professional and local guidelines and policies you will contribute to the development of a high quality, safe and effective services. You will be expected to provide face to face support to staff in their place of work on a regular basis. You will be based at Prospect Park Hospital but also required to travel to sites across the Trust.
About us
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust isa 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 solution
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role:
- Be a registered mental health nurse.
- Have a recognised accredited qualification at post graduate diploma level in a relevant psychological therapy (e.g. CBT, CAT).
- Have significant post registration experience of working on acute mental health wards for people with severe / significant mental illness.
- Have experience of facilitating group interventions and/or reflective practice groups.
- Be able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and lets be outstanding together.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to contactDr Hannah Faust via email:hannah.faust@berkshire.nhs.uk: wholl be delighted to help.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role:
- Be a registered mental health nurse.
- Have a recognised accredited qualification at post graduate diploma level in a relevant psychological therapy (e.g. CBT, CAT).
- Have significant post registration experience of working on acute mental health wards for people with severe / significant mental illness.
- Have experience of facilitating group interventions and/or reflective practice groups.
- Be able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and lets be outstanding together.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to contactDr Hannah Faust via email:hannah.faust@berkshire.nhs.uk: wholl be delighted to help.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Current professional registration as Mental Health Nurse.
- Recognised accredited qualification at post graduate diploma level in a relevant psychological therapy (e.g., CBT, CAT).
- Accredited with the relevant psychological body (BABCP/UKCP/ACAT etc.) for the psychological modality.
- Evidence of relevant post qualification development and clinical skills updates.
- Recognised Post Graduate clinical or leadership qualification relevant to the role.
Desirable
- Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) training.
- Mentor and mentorship training.
- Training in motivational interviewing, brief solution focussed interventions, cognitive and behavioural approaches, and psychosocial interventions.
- Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or quality improvement methodology
Previous Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience of providing evidence-based interventions to people with a variety of mental health problems and serious mental illness.
- Significant post registration experience of working on acute mental health wards for people with severe / significant mental illness.
- Considerable experience in the assessment and management of clinical risk.
- Experience of effective collaborative and partnership working to develop and deliver holistic health care.
- Demonstrable experience and interest of working in multidisciplinary teams / multi-agency environment.
- Experience of facilitating group work, including for staff teams, and delivering clinical supervision.
- Experience of delivering agreed/specified service targets and effective time management in a busy and demanding environment
- Experience of managing own caseload and time
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring, audit, and clinically related research.
Desirable
- Experience of in the planning and delivery of staff training and practice developments to staff.
- Experience in service evaluation and improvements.
- Experience of leadership and development of services.
- Proficient in clinical audits and research.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Possesses high level of IT skills including word, outlook, excel and power point.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to staff, managers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Demonstrating high standards in written communication, with an ability to write clear reports and letters to referrers.
- Demonstrates an understanding of mental health issues and presentations and knowledge of child protection/safeguarding issues and other relevant legislation.
- Specialist knowledge of psycho-social interventions and their appropriate use.
- Recovery focused practitioner able to apply an understanding of 'strengths- based' approaches.
- Working knowledge of appropriate assessment tools
- Able to demonstrate advanced understanding of health inequalities amongst marginalised groups.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time and to work flexibly across teams and sites in response to deadlines and service demands.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Ability to manage change and conflict / stressful situations.
- Effective communication and negotiation skills.
- Knowledge and understanding of service evaluation.
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
- Ability to work within multi-disciplinary teams and foster good working relationships.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Working knowledge of the research, policies, and guidelines pertinent to staff wellbeing
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel across sites in Berkshire and beyond as required.
- Ability to work flexibly, outside normal working patterns if needed.
- Ability to travel independently.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Current professional registration as Mental Health Nurse.
- Recognised accredited qualification at post graduate diploma level in a relevant psychological therapy (e.g., CBT, CAT).
- Accredited with the relevant psychological body (BABCP/UKCP/ACAT etc.) for the psychological modality.
- Evidence of relevant post qualification development and clinical skills updates.
- Recognised Post Graduate clinical or leadership qualification relevant to the role.
Desirable
- Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) training.
- Mentor and mentorship training.
- Training in motivational interviewing, brief solution focussed interventions, cognitive and behavioural approaches, and psychosocial interventions.
- Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or quality improvement methodology
Previous Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience of providing evidence-based interventions to people with a variety of mental health problems and serious mental illness.
- Significant post registration experience of working on acute mental health wards for people with severe / significant mental illness.
- Considerable experience in the assessment and management of clinical risk.
- Experience of effective collaborative and partnership working to develop and deliver holistic health care.
- Demonstrable experience and interest of working in multidisciplinary teams / multi-agency environment.
- Experience of facilitating group work, including for staff teams, and delivering clinical supervision.
- Experience of delivering agreed/specified service targets and effective time management in a busy and demanding environment
- Experience of managing own caseload and time
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring, audit, and clinically related research.
Desirable
- Experience of in the planning and delivery of staff training and practice developments to staff.
- Experience in service evaluation and improvements.
- Experience of leadership and development of services.
- Proficient in clinical audits and research.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Possesses high level of IT skills including word, outlook, excel and power point.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to staff, managers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Demonstrating high standards in written communication, with an ability to write clear reports and letters to referrers.
- Demonstrates an understanding of mental health issues and presentations and knowledge of child protection/safeguarding issues and other relevant legislation.
- Specialist knowledge of psycho-social interventions and their appropriate use.
- Recovery focused practitioner able to apply an understanding of 'strengths- based' approaches.
- Working knowledge of appropriate assessment tools
- Able to demonstrate advanced understanding of health inequalities amongst marginalised groups.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time and to work flexibly across teams and sites in response to deadlines and service demands.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Ability to manage change and conflict / stressful situations.
- Effective communication and negotiation skills.
- Knowledge and understanding of service evaluation.
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
- Ability to work within multi-disciplinary teams and foster good working relationships.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- Working knowledge of the research, policies, and guidelines pertinent to staff wellbeing
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel across sites in Berkshire and beyond as required.
- Ability to work flexibly, outside normal working patterns if needed.
- Ability to travel independently.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
