Total 83 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Bracknell, RG12 1LH

Band 4 – Dental Nurse - Permanent



Hours - 37.5 hrs per week working 5 days from 08.30 - 17.00.
Applicants wanting to work fewer days may be considered.

Salary - £23,949 - £26,282 pro-rata depending on experience.

Base – Skimped Hill Dental Clinic, Bracknell (Community Dental Clinic)

Berkshire Community Dental Service is looking to recruit a permanent dental nurse.
The nurse will join an enthusiastic and skilled workforce with a great team spirit. The service has 7 clinics ranging from Thatcham to Langley and over 45 members of staff. The service treats patients with additional needs including children, people with learning and physical disabilities and the elderly.

You will be based at Berkshire Community Dental Clinic in Bracknell, but will also work at other clinics and in the domiciliary setting. It is therefore essential that you can drive, have a UK driving licence and a car for travel between clinics and hospitals.

There are excellent opportunities for gaining experience in treating patients under sedation and general anaesthetic. The service has hoists and a wheelchair tipper/bariatric bench. Professional development and training are encouraged. Annual leave is 5-6 weeks pro rata depending on experience.



The key duties are:
• You will work in a multi-surgery clinic, having support from other colleagues.
• You will assist in the provision of dental care for children with high levels of dental disease and children and adults with additional needs.
• You will have the opportunity to provide care in the domiciliary setting.
• You will assist in the provision of care for patients under inhalation sedation.
• You will assist on general aesthetic sessions.

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

You will take part in the Berkshire Dental Access Centre scheme and provide primary dental care for patients not registered or unable to receive emergency care with a General Dental Practitioner under NHS arrangements. This service is provided both on weekdays, weekends and bank holidays.  

We are happy to answer any questions that you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Tracy Bullenon0118 9041524 or email: tracy.bullen@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help. 

The 3/4 “must haves” for you to be considered for this role: 
• GDC Registration.
• National Certificate for Dental Nurses or NVQ Level 3 in Oral Healthcare.
• Have a car and driving licence.
• Good communication skills.
• A team player.
• Experience with dental software and general IT skills.
• Ability to work outside normal working hours (8.30 – 17.00) given sufficient notice.


This advert closes on Monday 29 Apr 2024

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REPORTS TO: MDT Lead GP clinically, administratively to PCN Manager HOURS: Up to 37.5 hours per week Job overview The Health Triangle PCN is a flourishing organisation, comprising a diverse Multi-Disciplinary Team including Doctors, Nurses, Advanced Practitioners, Paramedic Practitioners, Clinical Pharmacists, First Contact Physiotherapists, Nursing Associates, Mental Health Practitioner, Social Prescriber and Care Coordinators. The PCN consists of 3 practices serving 50,000 patients spanning over Bracknell/Crowthorne and Sandhurst. We are a friendly and innovative organisation, with a strong focus on education and personal development. We are delighted in being able to offer a Clinical Pharmacist position within the PCN to join our experienced and enthusiastic clinical team. The PCN strives to develop the MDT with support from the local training Hub, and with a training practice within the PCN, there is strong support and encouragement for clinical pharmacists to develop their skills and knowledge with both nationally recognised programmes such as the CPPE and ACP, and local courses such as in leadership, management of long-term conditions and minor illness. We also encourage the MDT to pursue special interests, with some of our pharmacists leading clinics in diabetic care and respiratory care. Job overview The post holder must be a registered pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a multidisciplinary team in general practice. The role will include patient facing services ranging from telephone consultations to face to face consultation. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practices. The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries, and will provide support in the prescription hub, providing expert advice on medicines, the repeat prescription system, manage acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing. The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a nonmedical prescriber. Main Duties and Responsibilities Patient facing longterm condition clinics: See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. hypertension, asthma). Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement. Patient facing clinical medication review: Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring. Patient facing care home medication reviews: Undertake structured medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, paramedics, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review: Undertake structured medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences. Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments: Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate. Patient facing medicines support: Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice. Telephone medicines support: Provide telephone clinics for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Medicine information to practice staff and patients: Answers relevant medicinerelated enquiries from practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy or district nurses) and patients with queries about medicines. Provides recommendations on medicine optimisation and adherence. Offer follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes. Unplanned hospital admissions: Review the use of medicines commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups. Management of medicines at discharge from hospital: To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes). Signposting: Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate timeframe, such as pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc. Repeat prescribing: Implement the practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required. Risk stratification: Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches Medicines quality improvement: Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team. Medicines safety: Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations: Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Education and Training: Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Care Quality Commission: Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Public health: To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public. Qualifications /Required experience Degree in Pharmacy, MPharm/BPharm GPhC Registered Full driving licence IP Qualified or working toward an IP qualification General Practice and understanding of medicines optimisation roles Desired experience Member of the RPS Clinical Diploma Minor ailments qualification Clinical systems trained (Emis) Salary is £18.00 to £26.66 per hour. Benefits: Company events Company pension Employee discount Flexitime Free flu jabs Free parking On-site parking Private medical insurance Sick pay Store discount Birthday day off Schedule: Day shift Flexitime Monday to Friday Weekend availability

REPORTS TO: Nurse Manager and Nurse Lead GP HOURS: Up to 37.5 hours per week About us Ringmead Medical Group is a flourishing organisation, comprising a diverse Multi-Disciplinary Team including Doctors, Nurses, Advanced Practitioners, Paramedic Practitioners, Clinical Pharmacists, First Contact Physiotherapists, Nursing Associates, Mental Health Practitioner, Social Prescriber and Care Coordinators. The Practices consists of 5 sites serving 42,000 patients spanning over Bracknell/Crowthorne and Sandhurst. We are a friendly and innovative organisation, with a strong focus on education and personal development. We are delighted in being able to offer a Nursing Assistant Administrator position to support our experienced and enthusiastic Nursing team. Main Duties and Responsibilities The Nursing Assistant is an admin job who will work closely with the Nurse Manager/ Deputy Nurse Leads and wider nursing Team. The nurse assistant is to provide assistance to the nurse. They help nurses so that everything can be done faster and efficiently. They are basically the eye of the nurse. They will assist the Nursing team with various tasks including: Stock Ordering Monitoring and recording of fridge temperatures. Restocking and maintenance of consulting rooms, supplies and equipment. Ensure that stocks are maintained and replenished before the expiry dates. Weekly/ monthly checks of emergency drugs and equipment. Coordination of patient care and appointments Attend practice/clinical/nurse meetings and contribute to the agenda in the development of the nursing service and where appropriate wider practice systems. Participate in quality improvement e.g. audit, development of protocols and new services. Assist and maintain infection control measures. Aid vaccination clinics, including data entry. Successful candidate should be able to travel frequently across 5 sites of Ringmead Medical Group (Ringmead Birch Hill, Great Hollands, Crowthorne, Owlsmoor and Yorktown Road Surgeries) so it is important to have full clean driving license and access to car. Salary is £11.44 per hour. Benefits: Company events Company pension Employee discount Flexitime Free flu jabs Free parking On-site parking Private medical insurance Sick pay Store discount. Birthday day off Schedule: Day shift Flexitime Monday to Friday

Job responsibilities The following are the core responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels. The pharmacy technician will work within their scope of clinical practice Key responsibilities - Work with the Clinical Pharmacists, Community Pharmacists and Clinicians in - accordance with agreed practice prescribing standard operating procedures. - Process repeat medication request, including conversion of acute requests to repeat medicines, changing quantities of medicines. - Issuing prescriptions in line with agreed clinical protocols and within competency. - Provide advice and guidance to patients regarding medication optimisation and lifestyle e.g inhaler techniques. - Provide medication review services to patients via clinics in the practice, domiciliary visits and in residential and nursing homes, and to deliver pharmaceutical care plans that maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care. - Support the achievement of the practices prescribing targets ie QOF, IIF and local incentive scheme. - Dealing with medication queries including acute medication requests, patient medication and prescription queries. - To update and maintain accurate patient medication records on the practice clinical system, including advice given and advice taken. - Liaise with primary and secondary care colleagues to ensure correct medicines are continued following the transfer of care. - To assist the Senior Clinical Pharmacist with data analysis of prescribing behaviour in line with NICE guidance and local clinical commissioning directives. - To assist with the development and review of medicine audits. - Provide a contact for patients and colleagues with medication queries. - Project work/prescribing initiatives under the support of the Pharmacist. - Conduct medication reconciliation following discharge from hospital, clinic visits and other transfers of care, to ensure that medication changers are safely implemented in a timely fashion. - To link with hospital and community pharmacy colleagues to address discrepancies, supply issues and queries within competency. - Liaise with wider health care team including primary care staff, community nurses and care home staff with medication queries. - To undertake regular audits. - To support the safe and effective repeat prescribing of high risk medicines, ensuring that regular monitoring as per local/shared care guidance is taking place. - Supporting patients to manage their medicines, for example, synchronisation of medications, reviewing patients suitability for monitored dosage systems, and setting up electronic repeat dispensing. - To document interventions made to patients medications in their health care records to ensure there is a clear audit trail and changes are clearly accounted for. - To promote cost effective, safe, evidence based prescribing in accordance with local formulary, medication optimisation strategy and national guidance. - Attend local meetings seeking to improve access to medicines or repeat prescribing processes. - Ensure patients and their families / carers views are taken into account in every stage of the decision making process. - Seek advice from clinical lead as appropriate. Development and Improvement - Contribute to the development of efficient and effective services Performance and Quality - Liaise with reception, admin, and clinical teams to ensure effective care is delivered Communications - Communicate effectively by competent use of email, telephone, written, and face-to-face communication - Ensure timely and accurate handling of messages/tasks, ensuring all unresolved or urgent matters are prioritised - The post holder has access to confidential patient information and will, therefore need to have a working knowledge and adhere to all aspects of information governance, data protection and confidentiality policies. Ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained at all times Internal Relationships The post holder will work with little supervision, prioritising and managing their own workload on a day-to-day basis General - To ensure ongoing compliance with the CQCs (Care Quality Commission) essential standards of quality and safety - To comply with all relevant Health and Safety regulations and policy - To comply with and actively promote NCPCs Equality and Diversity Policy - To support sustainability practices and recognise the shared responsibility of carrying out duties in a resource efficient way - To undertake any other duties as appropriate Salary is £13.49 to £16.66 per hour. Benefits: Company events Company pension Employee discount Flexitime Free flu jabs Free parking On-site parking Private medical insurance Sick pay Store discount Birthday day off Schedule: Day shift Flexitime Monday to Friday Weekend availability

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

If inpatient rehab is your passion, then come work with us!

If being centred in your local community, providing rehab and treatment for your local population excites you, then come work with us!

If you're looking for a job where you will have job satisfaction, career progression and professional support and autonomy, then come work with us!

We are an intermediate care rehab unit based in Bracknell for the people of Bracknell. We focus on inpatient rehab to support people to return to their homes. We are a therapy-led unit and you will be part of the rehab MDT made up of OTs, PTs, Techs, Nurses, nursing staff, Doctors and specialist services. You will receive professional supervision and be supported with your CPD and professional development.

To deliver rehab to patients, providing education and promoting independence. Working with patients with acute problems, chronic long term conditions and palliative diagnoses.

To independently manage own caseload of patients with support from Senior Physiotherapy and the wider MDT, and to prioritise accordingly.

To undertake assessment, care planning and treatment.

To support ongoing development of the services within the locality, collaborating and engaging with key partners and other services.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
• To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload
• To provide an assessment, treatment and evaluation service for patients referred to the service for rehabilitation with neurological, orthopaedic, respiratory and musculoskeletal conditions, including those needing an urgent response
• To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients using investigative and analytical skills and seek guidance from senior staff as required.
• To undertake environmental risk assessments within the work environment and to document key risk areas, seeking guidance from a more senior member of staff when dealing with cases indicating a high level of risk
• To undertake individual and group rehabilitation programmes as required
• To support and facilitate safe discharge at the optimum point of care, and through in-reach discussion with acute hospitals, negotiating or following-up those patients in their own homes as needed
• To devise an individualised physiotherapy management and/or treatment plan, using clinical reasoning skills to utilise a range of treatment options in formulating a programme of care
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your professional activities working within codes of practice and professional guidelines. This includes patient documentation
• To demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance, clinical risk and to demonstrate the use of treatment plans based on evidence
• To be responsible for implementing within your clinical practice the standards and policies for community working and where applicable propose changes to working practices
• To maintain a high standard of clinical care using evidence based practices and evaluate the outcomes
• To have the physical ability to carry out physiotherapy assessment and interventions including highly developed manual physiotherapy techniques and therapeutic handling. This includes frequent moderate physical effort
• To keep up to date with clinical developments, analysing current research and discussing and implementing changes in clinical practice
• To be responsible for the safe use of equipment in carrying out physiotherapy duties, adhering to the Trust’s medical devices policy. This includes competence and accuracy to use specialist equipment by yourself and other healthcare professionals, carers and patients
• This job will involve occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions e.g. bodily fluids, unpleasant smells etc
• To have emotional resilience and be comfortable managing distressing situations


This advert closes on Thursday 28 Mar 2024

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

If inpatient rehab is your passion, then come work with us!

If being centred in your local community, providing rehab and treatment for your local population excites you, then come work with us!

If you're looking for a job where you will have job satisfaction, career progression and professional support and autonomy, then come work with us!

We are an intermediate care rehab unit based in Bracknell for the people of Bracknell. We focus on inpatient rehab to support people to return to their homes. We are a therapy-led unit and you will be part of the rehab MDT made up of OTs, PTs, Techs, Nurses, nursing staff, Doctors and specialist services. You will receive professional supervision and be supported with your CPD and professional development.

To deliver rehab to patients, providing education and promoting independence. Working with patients with acute problems, chronic long term conditions and palliative diagnoses.

To independently manage own caseload of patients with support from Senior Physiotherapy and the wider MDT, and to prioritise accordingly.

To undertake assessment, care planning and treatment.

To support ongoing development of the services within the locality, collaborating and engaging with key partners and other services.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
• To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant specialist clinical workload
• To provide an assessment, treatment and evaluation service for patients referred to the service for rehabilitation with neurological, orthopaedic, respiratory and musculoskeletal conditions, including those needing an urgent response
• To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients using investigative and analytical skills and seek guidance from senior staff as required.
• To undertake environmental risk assessments within the work environment and to document key risk areas, seeking guidance from a more senior member of staff when dealing with cases indicating a high level of risk
• To undertake individual and group rehabilitation programmes as required
• To support and facilitate safe discharge at the optimum point of care, and through in-reach discussion with acute hospitals, negotiating or following-up those patients in their own homes as needed
• To devise an individualised physiotherapy management and/or treatment plan, using clinical reasoning skills to utilise a range of treatment options in formulating a programme of care
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your professional activities working within codes of practice and professional guidelines. This includes patient documentation
• To demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance, clinical risk and to demonstrate the use of treatment plans based on evidence
• To be responsible for implementing within your clinical practice the standards and policies for community working and where applicable propose changes to working practices
• To maintain a high standard of clinical care using evidence based practices and evaluate the outcomes
• To have the physical ability to carry out physiotherapy assessment and interventions including highly developed manual physiotherapy techniques and therapeutic handling. This includes frequent moderate physical effort
• To keep up to date with clinical developments, analysing current research and discussing and implementing changes in clinical practice
• To be responsible for the safe use of equipment in carrying out physiotherapy duties, adhering to the Trust’s medical devices policy. This includes competence and accuracy to use specialist equipment by yourself and other healthcare professionals, carers and patients
• This job will involve occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions e.g. bodily fluids, unpleasant smells etc
• To have emotional resilience and be comfortable managing distressing situations


This advert closes on Thursday 28 Mar 2024

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

A Vacancy at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.


Exciting Return to Mental Health Nursing Opportunities Await You!

Qualified Mental Health Nurses, your re-entry into the profession is now possible with our trust. Apply for tailored Mental Health Nursing positions, kickstarting your journey with a discussion about your specific goals. Successful candidates will receive a conditional offer, pending completion of a "return to practice" course. Though unpaid, the course placements offer invaluable skill enhancement.

Post-course completion and NMC registration, seamlessly transition into a registered, paid role in our trust. Explore various Mental Health Nursing vacancies aligning with your goals, including Inpatient Wards, Crisis Resolution HTT, Older People's Mental Health, Eating Disorders Unit, Community Mental Health Team, CAMHS Inpatient, ADHD Nursing, and Perinatal Mental Health. We'll guide you through the process and discuss your team preferences.

Apply now to rejuvenate your Mental Health Nursing career! Whether a seasoned professional or seeking a new challenge, join our dynamic healthcare team delivering exceptional services.

Unlock opportunities by registering with Health Education England (HEE) on their Return to Practice Programme (RtP). The HEE Returnee Information Form is your gateway to possibilities in our trust, with HEE supporting your journey through funding for expenses and relevant courses. Reignite your passion for Mental Health Nursing—apply today for a meaningful impact on healthcare!

Embark on a transformative journey with our program, where unwavering support from our friendly and dedicated teams ensures your success. Our team of Learning Environment Leads is committed to guiding you through every step, ensuring that you not only meet but exceed the necessary placement hours required for a seamless re-registration process.

Immerse yourself in the clinical realm with flexible opportunities to collaborate within our dynamic teams. Through shadowing and supervised clinical work, tailored to your schedule, you'll gain hands-on experience while honing your skills. Our commitment is to provide you with the flexibility you need, allowing you to choose hours, times, and frequency that align with your individual preferences.

As per the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) guidelines for clinicians returning to practice, we recognize the importance of updating your knowledge and skills. The requirements are structured as follows:
• 0 to 2 years out of practice: No mandatory updating of skills and knowledge.
• 2 to 5 years out of practice: Engage in 30 days of comprehensive updating.
• 5 or more years out of practice: Dedicate 60 days to a thorough updating process.

(Keep in mind that NMC considers 1 day equivalent to 7 hours of updating.) Embrace this opportunity to reinvigorate your professional journey and join a supportive community dedicated to your success.

Join Berkshire Healthcare – A Stonewall Top 100 Employer!

At Berkshire Healthcare, we champion diversity as a Stonewall 100 Top Employer across 100+ sites in Windsor & Maidenhead, Slough, Bracknell Forest, Wokingham, Reading, and West Berkshire. Our 5,000-strong team is committed to delivering top-quality care.

Why Us?
• Flexibility: Embrace work-life balance with our flexible options.
• Leave Benefits: Enjoy 27 days annual leave (increasing), buy/sell options.
• NHS Pension: Benefit from a 20.68% employer contribution.
• Career Development: Unlock your potential with our learning opportunities.
• Technology: Stay ahead with advanced IT enablement.
• Wellbeing: Prioritise health with 'Cycle to Work,' car leasing, wellbeing tools.
• Discounts: Avail discounts through the Blue Light Card.
• Support Networks: Join networks for race, diversity, disabilities, fostering inclusivity.
• Family Support: Generous leave, access to staff nurseries.
• Free Parking: Enjoy free parking at selected sites.

Apply Now!

Be part of a dynamic team – click "apply" on this advert! Berkshire Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer, embracing diversity. We can't wait to welcome you!

To be considered for this program, candidates must meet the following criteria:
1. No sanctions from the NMC.
2. Previous NMC registration.
3. Mental Health Nurse Qualification.

Candidates employed through the Return to Practice route at Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust will receive dedicated support through our comprehensive multi-disciplinary preceptorship program. Our well-established and successful initiative is designed to enhance your confidence, clinical skills, knowledge, and values, fostering valuable networks across the Trust.

We actively encourage discussions around flexibility and welcome any queries you may have. Please feel free to reach out to us atjobs@berkshire.nhs.uk, and we'll be delighted to assist you.

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to equal opportunities, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are dedicated to making reasonable adjustments for disabled applicants as needed.


This advert closes on Friday 31 Jan 2025

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

To be considered for this program, candidates must meet the following criteria: No sanctions from the NMC. Previous NMC registration. Mental Health Nurse Qualification. Candidates employed through the Return to Practice route at Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust will receive dedicated support through our comprehensive multi-disciplinary preceptorship program. Our well-established and successful initiative is designed to enhance your confidence, clinical skills, knowledge, and values, fostering valuable networks across the Trust. We actively encourage discussions around flexibility and welcome any queries you may have. Please feel free to reach out to us at jobs@berkshire.nhs.uk, and we'll be delighted to assist you. Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to equal opportunities, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are dedicated to making reasonable adjustments for disabled applicants as needed.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES The post holder will: 1. Have an appropriate experiential health care background such as: health care assistant, therapy assistant, emergency medical technician. 2. Work with The Digital Health Clinicians supporting high level remote monitoring for patients with short- and long-term conditions. Escalate to The Digital Health Clinicians when markers for deterioration are evident on submission of abnormal observations by patients via the Docobo system. Thereby, ensuring patients on the caseload who alert have clinical contact urgently. This ensures care is delivered in the community setting and aids prevention of unnecessary hospital admission. 3. Work with partners in nursing and residential care to ensure optimum health outcomes for their residents. 4. Work on shared caseloads with Integrated Care System (ICS) by acting as an integral member of the community team with a shared vision for developing caseloads as required by Integrated Care System partners. 5. Possess experience working within the telemedicine field to support the delivery of clinical care remotely; working, under direction of the Digital Health Team Leader and the Digital Health Clinical colleagues when required. 6. Deliver health promotion advice under supervision from clinical colleagues via the Digital Health model, e.g. chronic disease management self-help signposting. 7. Work in alignment with Primary Care, for established practice populations, toward a shared vision of seamless management for patients with short- and long-term conditions within the Primary Care and the Community setting. 8. Work with ICS partners in Primary and Social Care to further develop the Digital Health model for cohorts of patients managed within local populations. 9. Maintain accountability for practice to the Digital Health Team Leader following all EBPC Policies and Procedures. 10. Maintain legible, accurate and up to date records that are dated and signed in accordance with EBPC Policies for standards on record keeping. 11. Contribute to the onboarding of patients with short- and long-term conditions to the Docobo patient management platform. 12. Contribute to the discharging of patients with short- and long-term conditions from the Docobo patient management platform. 13. Work in a supervised capacity with patients, their families and carers managing referrals according to need and priority. 14. Escalate complex clinical data that has alerted on the Docobo patient management platform to the Digital Health Clinical colleagues. 15. Understand and support the achievement of EBPCs business plan objectives and performance targets. 16. Identify the potential for service developments, risks and deficits and inform the Digital Health Team Leader making recommendations based on vocational knowledge. 17. Be accountable for practice taking every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve knowledge and competence. 18. Assist the Digital Health Team Leader to manage the effective use of resources within the Digital Health team and participate in regular review meetings with the Team Leader. 19. Have experience of Docobo patient management platform or similar. 20. Have experience with other clinical patient management systems: Adastra, EMIS, Connected Care PATIENTS CARE The post holder will: 1. Use telemedicine knowledge and skills to remotely monitor the physical and psychosocial needs of a defined client group. 2. Use telemedicine and healthcare knowledge to respond to alerts raised by the Docobo patient management platform. Urgently, escalating patient alerts to the Digital Health Clinicians to action. 3. Work with partners in nursing and residential care to improve the health outcomes of the residents and so prevent unnecessary hospital admissions or extended in-patient care episodes. 4. Assist the Digital Health Clinicians who are dealing with complex patient situations. Thereby aiding the establishment of a therapeutic relationship with individual patients using The Digital Health service. 5. Use telemedicine assessment tools/skills that will ensure an appropriate level of therapeutic supervision so that patients who present with complex needs are referred/escalated via the appropriate care pathway. 6. Conduct patient encounters with sensitivity and to act as patient advocate, maintaining patient confidentiality. 7. Deliver care that is patient centred, respecting diverse cultural backgrounds, and requirements. 8. Work in partnership with the patients to empower them to make informed choices about their healthcare and support choices. 9. Offer a supportive service to patients and their carers who are using the Digital Health service RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PEOPLE AND TRAINING 1. Be responsible for providing and maintaining a learning environment and maximise opportunities for education and development in the clinical area to enhance individual development and performance in the delivery of high standards of care. 2. Act as a Digital Health resource and assist in mentoring new Clinical Support Team Members in the Digital Health environment. Take part in the process of clinical supervision and participate in clinical supervision and mentorship of others. 3. Take responsibility for your own personal development; maintain competence, knowledge, and skills commensurate with role.

The must haves for you to be considered for this role: Recognised psychodynamic psychotherapy qualification and registered with UKCP as a psychotherapist or with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC); or ACAT accreditation as a CAT Practitioner or Psychotherapist and/or UKCP registered as a CAT Psychotherapist Experience of delivering brief, time limited psychological therapy interventions with complex mental health difficulties Comprehensive knowledge of Psychodynamic and/or CAT theory and practice and the ability to skilfully apply the model to formulate treatment plans, work therapeutically within a time limit and evaluate interventions If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and lets be outstanding together. 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. We are very happy to discuss the role with you and answer any questions that you may have. Please contact Dr Ceri Lyck-Bowen, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, on 0118 904 6800 or email Ceri.LyckBowen@berkshire.nhs.uk

Are you a Registered Mental Health Nurse with an interest in working in our CYPF Health Hub, CAMHS Common Point of Entry Service as a Mental Health Practitioner? Then we at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT) have an exciting opportunity for you!

This fantastic opportunity will be responding to complex referrals to the CAMHS team, carrying out initial triage and telephone assessment of new children or young people including risk assessments and the formulation and recommendation for on-going care. You will review referrals coming into the service and undertake a structured telephone triage and develop a formulation to determine the mental health needs of the child or young person, assessing risk and either signposting to the appropriate CAMHS team or pathway.

You will also be providing advice and consultation to referrers, colleagues and families who may require advice about symptoms, risk, or the need for a referral. You will also be identifying those who need a more detailed face to face assessment within CPE and allocating a priority level.
1. Triage, assessment and formulation of young people presenting to Child and Adolescent mental Health services.
2. Consultation with professionals making referrals to the service
3. Undertaking Telephone assessments of young people referred to the service
4. Undertaking Face to face assessments of young people referred to the service
5. Work flexibly across multiple sites
6. Taking part in the review of clinical records
7. Reviewing of data to support the management of waiting lists
8. Working within a team of skilled CAMHS clinicians
9. Joining a service that provided front door access to a comprehensive CAMHS

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:
1. Registered mental Health Nurse or other registered appropriate health care professional
2. An interest in working within a CAMHS team
3. An ability to undertake telephone assessments
4. Experience of working in a mental health setting

If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and let’s be outstanding together.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Robert Williams or Jennie Pohlman on 03003650300 and 0118 904 4665 respectively and /or email: robert.williams@berkshire.nhs.uk or jennie.pohlman@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 Monday 4 Mar 2024

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Please find attached a copy of the full job description under the supporting documents section for this job advert, this has been provided by the Hiring Manager

The must haves for this role: Experience of working as an Occupational Therapist with children and young people Excellent communication skills Ability to consider the needs of a child/young person holistically Car driver with current UK driving license and access to using a car for work purposes 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 call: Gemma West on 07789741450 or email: gemma.west@berkshire.nhs.uk wholl 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.

Interviews will be held on 9th Jan 2024
• 37.5 hours per week (full-time, permanent role)
• Based at Great Hollands Health Centre, Bracknell
• We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic Occupational Therapist, with a passion for supporting children, young people and their families; you will need to demonstrate that you have excellent communication and people skills, an understanding of the diverse needs of children and young people, and an interest in developing clinical skills with early years, school age and special school caseloads.
• Experience of working with families from a wide variety of backgrounds and understanding of the value of integrated services is essential.
• In line with our commitment to impact based working you will need to demonstrate that you are committed to putting the interest of the child at the heart of your actions. You will be expected to act as an ambassador for our service and be calm and confident, dealing with challenging situations, and collaborate across a multi-disciplinary team communicating with various parties to ensure that we deliver a seamless service.
• 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.
• Take responsibility for a dedicated caseload and clinical role.
• Carry out clinical assessments within your level of clinical knowledge and skill.
• Identify relevant therapy needs from which you can develop and deliver an individualised management plan, with support from a senior therapist as needed.
• Contribute to and deliver training to schools/early years setting, parents, CYP and staff, as part of therapy support and delivery.
• Contribute to the implementation and development of the impact-based model of clinical decision making.
• Work collaboratively with education, local authority, medical and nursing staff to ensure delivery of a coordinated integrated service along with Speech and Language Therapy and Physiotherapy colleagues.
• Opportunity to develop leadership and management skills, overseeing junior staff and students.

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:
1. Experience of working as an Occupational Therapist with children and young people
2. Excellent communication skills
3. Ability to consider the needs of a child/young person holistically
4. Car driver with current UK driving license and access to using a car for work purposes

If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and let’s be outstanding together.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Gemma West on 07789741450 or email: gemma.west@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 Tuesday 26 Dec 2023

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme