Safety Specialist for Reducing Restrictive Practice | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum, pro-rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Reading, RG30 4EJ |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6238428/371-MHS358 |
Summary
INTERNAL ONLY - This post is open to Berkshire Healthcare NHS Employees Only
We are looking for someone who can work confidently with a range of people from across disciplines to make a positive impact in supporting our ambition to ensure the use of restrictive interventions is used as minimally as possible, and when required, applied in ways that meet best practice safety and quality standards.
You will have significant clinical working experience, with a knowledge of the national frameworks, guidance that inform best clinical practice. You will demonstrate enhanced communication, working alongside service users, families, staff and other stakeholders to deliver a robust system underpinned by restorative reviews that delivers on our goals and ambitions.
The role works within the Nurse Consultant Network, as part of a governance and supervisory function that supports services to meet their quality goals and standards of experience, safety and effectiveness
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
The “must haves” for this role:
• To play a lead role in supporting the Clinical Director in the continued development of the trusts Patient Safety Culture and specifically the reduction of restrictive practices.
• They will develop and lead networks to share good practice and learn from each other. This will include engaging with regional and national improvement collaboratives.
• The post holder will ensure that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in all processes and will lead the promotion of restorative supervision to assist the thinking to examine why things routinely go right and how that can be maximised.
• They will support the development of the reducing restrictive practice agenda as identified in the CQC strategy.
• They will play a lead role in developing education and training aligned to the developing Guidance.
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: Reuben Pearce on 07816 601907 or email:reuben.pearce@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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Apr 2024
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