Total 15 job vacancies by NHS Jobs

Detailed job description and main responsibilities Understands the importance of the woman as the centre of her care. Demonstrates that he/ she consult and involves women in decisions about their care and wellbeing. Demonstrates understanding of fundamental legal practices related to consent and the prevention of abuse. Is able to implement holistic; culturally sensitive; respectful; non-judgemental care from a pre-determined care plan for women with a wide range of care needs. Undertakes other care practices as directed by the Midwife/Nurse but is able to carry out routine care duties at own discretion. Practices in accordance with the Trusts protocols and guidelines. Demonstrates understanding of the boundaries of the Maternity Support Worker role. Confident and competent in all intrapartum related band 3 competencies. Works flexibly across the intrapartum areas to provide excellence in labour care during the latent phase of labour, and support the woman, family and midwife during active labour if appropriate/required. For example, precipitate delivery, woman labouring alone. Is able to assist the midwife in emergencies such as neonatal resuscitation, precipitate birth/haemorrhage. Recognises and respond to emergencies appropriately such as adult and neonatal basic life support. Is able to initiate fundamental care during an emergency to ensure safety. Acts as 2ndperson at birth to support the midwife in essential tasks at the time of birth supporting maintaining a safe birth environment. Is able to undertake after training, clinical skills such as venepuncture, removal of urinary catheters, cannulas, maternal and neonatal observations Is able to support the midwife in the immediate postnatal period with suturing (including gaining competence in swab counts and related records), maternal well-being assessments and can support initiating safe skin to skin. Is able to support women with initiating first infant feed, responsive infant feeding, helping women to gain skills and confidence with attachment and positioning and immediate care of newborn babies. Displays skills, within own sphere of practice, related to promoting womens comfort, mobility, support needs. Uses initiative when responding to changes in the woman or babys condition. Assists the midwives and bereavement team in caring for and supporting women and their families who are experiencing the loss of a baby. Supports with memory making for families. Helps maintain the bereavement rooms and annex to expected standards. Displays excellent two-way communication with women, families and colleagues. Is able to overcome barriers to understanding when the womans first language is not English or has a learning or hearing difficulty. Demonstrates appropriate assertiveness and ability to challenge others when the rights of women and others may be infringed. Demonstrates an awareness of equity in healthcare and the impact that inequity can have on women and their families accessing the service. Is able to maintain contemporaneous records relating to the woman/babys condition on the electronic patient record (EPR Undertakes specific skills such as checking; cleaning and ensuring the equipment is ready for use when required. This is following completion of appropriate training and on instruction from Registered Midwife/Nurse, Clinical Engineering or the Manufacturer of the product. Understands the principles of human and environmental factors when working in teams and applies this to ensure safe team working. Awareness of escalation policies and how to escalate concerns when required. Able to assist the midwife with labour admissions. Greeting the mother and her family, supporting women and their family in early labour teaching them coping skills and strategies. Demonstrates an awareness of child protection and domestic abuse care pathways and policies with an awareness of factors that might alert him/her to the possibility of a child protection or domestic abuse issue and able to cite appropriate response to these concerns.

Please see enclosed Consultant job information pack for further details and information. Activity will be based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading with the opportunity for some clinics at one of our spoke sites rather than the RBH. Specific responsibilities will include the following, although there is flexibility in this that can be discussed upon appointment: Outpatient activities: 1 weekly general clinic, 2 weekly ILD clinics, one of which includes hot slots to review deteriorating patients or those with a flare (clinics are cancelled when on-call for general medicine and when covering respiratory inpatients, with cross-cover provided by colleagues as needed) Running the monthly ILD MDT Attendance at the monthly rheumatology MDT Attendance at the Oxford ILD MDT Participation in the bronchoscopy rota Triage and review of incoming routine and urgent referrals Inpatients and on-call Managing the specialist respiratory inpatient ward and referrals on a rotational basis (currently 4 weeks in 18). Outpatient commitments are cancelled when covering inpatients. Contribution to the respiratory of the day (ROD) rota again outpatient commitments are cancelled when acting as respiratory of the day. Weekend cover of the respiratory ward; 08.30-14.30 reviewing new patients to the ward, patients on the RSU, sick patients flagged by the nursing staff. Junior cover (2 juniors) is provided from 08.30-17.30 for the respiratory ward at the weekend. Supervision and education of ward junior doctors and final year medical students, with on-the-job clinical teaching Participation in the general medicine on call. Full time equivalent frequency is as below: 1:24 weekdays 15.00 -22.30, on-site, including post-take review Overnight- non-residential The general medical on-call weekend rota is also at a 1 in 24 frequency, on site 0800-20.00 both Saturday and Sunday with overnight non-residential on call.

To be responsible for the management of your theatre specialty on a 24-hour basis, working to ensure the delivery of an excellent service to patients. To manage people and financial resources within your theatre specialty in order to ensure its effective operation. Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the post.

Under the guidance and supervision of a registered practitioner, the support worker helps co-ordinate care by providing a single point of access, including: Rapid re-entry into the system for those people identified as having urgent or specialist needs, providing general information and support about cancer and cancer services. By supporting independence and self management the role enables people to navigate the health and social care system and make choices that are best for their cancer and their lifestyle. The information you will provide and communication required is sensitive due to the nature of cancer. Communication in this context requires a high degree of empathy, understanding, diplomacy, honesty and integrity. Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details.

Workforce development and implementation Clearly understand the strategic priorities of the Trust and help translate these into effective people management & OD strategies at a care group level. Have a sound understanding of the business of the care group providing expert support to help achieve objectives and solve complex issues. Provide expert advice on national developments in workforce, including employment law, benchmarking and innovation. Lead on development activities to enhance culture and leadership within the care group, supported by W&OD teams). Lead on the promotion of the Trusts equality, diversity and inclusion agenda within the care group using available data to develop targeted plans to address inequality. Act as a people champion demonstrating role model behaviour by adding value and advocating people management within the care group. Work with the Medical Directors office and W&OD to increase workforce productivity through effective use of consultant contract and the annual job planning process. Workforce Modernisation and Transformation To lead, develop and implement organisational workforce transformation / development / change projects to ensure that the Trust has an appropriate, motivated, highly skilled and high performing workforce that is reflective of the service needs and organizational direction reflecting our values and being creative and courageous about the need for change and how to get there. To provide leadership and direction in relation to workforce and OD change and to engage colleagues for support with processes where required. To work with all of the specialist workforce teams to fill gaps and trouble short to create a professional and seamless change process, project managing where required and being solution focused whenever possible to ensure that workforce developments continue until completion or decision points. To assist in the production of Workforce Transformation plans for each area and contribute to a Trust wide plan in liaison with the transformation team. To assist with the prioritization of workforce changes across the Trust ensuring that the appropriate level is resource is available to support the change. This plan would come from the forward planning of services within the care groups and corporate service wherever possible using workforce change models and engaging with stakeholders across the health community to maximize the benefits of our workforce across the ICS. To ensure that workforce transformation and OD programmes are commenced in a timely fashion and managed in line with the Trust policies and best practice.

You will be responsible for undertaking and recording comprehensive nursing assessment and planning, delivering and evaluating high standards of evidenced-based nursing care to a diverse group of patients. Deliver care without direct supervision and be accountable for the care delivered and any omissions of care. Teach and supervise more junior staff, students and the non-registered nursing workforce. Be accountable for care or any omissions of care that you delegate to others. Act as role model, delivering care with empathy and compassion as part of a multidisciplinary team. Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details.

The post holder will develop an excellent working relationship with all members of the Estates Maintenance Department as well as all clinical and non-clinical team leads. They will be responsible in the setting up of regular meetings with ward and service leads, to receive feedback and issue updates on reactive works. The purpose is to implement continuous quality improvement plans (CQIs) to improve estates services, strategies and compliance. Support the Estates Maintenance team with a wide range of administrative and clerical tasks Provide weekly reports to Fabric Manager on SLA and KPI compliance.Provide monthly reports on SLA and KPI compliance to inform Monthly Operational meeting. The post holder will assist with managing sub-contractors carrying out repairs, refurbishments and remedial works. Required to travel to other sites such as, Bracknell, Windsor and Harbourne. Supervise Minor Works activities, ensuring that all operatives are working safely, effectively and productively. Support the management of the relationship between the estates team and multiple suppliers and contractors. Planning and organisation of complex activates or programmes, specifically plan and organise minor works, maintenance activities, liaising with estates staff, service users and contractors to ensure cost effective outcomes. Ensuring allocated work is undertaken and followed through to completion of satisfaction of the service user. Analyse, evaluate and use judgement to provide mitigation of potential risks by leading contingency planning especially where critical services might be effected by the works. Responsible for managing, maintaining and developing the CAFM system including Micad to support maintenance operations, e.g., creating and maintaining records of progress for reactive and planned preventative maintenance tasks and plans related to the in-house fabric team. Deal with telephone queries on behalf of the department, escalating urgent and/or confidential communications to the appropriate person in a timely manner. Act as a point of escalation for the internal team on how to best respond to complex queries from stakeholders. Develop and maintain effective electronic and paper filing systems to ensure that information is kept securely and is accessible to all members of the team whilst meeting all statutory, regulatory, and mandatory requirements. Working in conjunction with the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Department (EPRR), lead on the implementation of all arrangements for monthly generator tests and the annual Black Building generator test (support delivery of works in and out of hours). Support the wider team with advice and guidance, to ensure continuity of clinical services, minimising downtime. Responsible for the co-ordination of fabric maintenance reactive and extra works ensuring business continuity. Participate in scheduled, planned and unplanned electrical outages as a support for Silver command/control for generator switching (operational, not technical). Support delivery of works in and out of hours. Meet with a range of Trust stakeholders such as non-specialist senior managers, clinicians, charities, landlords & capital project managers to agree interruptions to service(s). Collate and analyse weekly reports to the Senior Operations Manager and Building Manager for review. Manage day to day reactive tasks to ensure KPIs and SLAs are adhered to for reactive works. Meet with department leads on a regular basis for walk-rounds and auditing of clinical and non-clinical areas.

The Personal Safety Tutor and Violence Reduction Advisor is an integral role supporting the delivery of education relating to conflict resolution and violence reduction for staff working within the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust (RBFT). They will assist the Head of Risk to ensure the effective delivery of all physical intervention training and its theory components Trust wide. They will support the agenda in designing, implementing and evaluating physical intervention training programmes which meets the needs of the Trust and its staff and which are reflective of both physical and mental health needs of our patients. With expertise in the field of Prevention & Management of Violence and Aggression (PMVA), the post holder will assist the Head of Risk in representing the Trust in promoting the therapeutic management of violence and aggression in where appropriate and upholding and promoting the positive ethos of the Trust and the General Services Association (GSA) in this field. The post holder will be expected to support the development of practice-based knowledge and skills in this specialist area and contribute to research and audit where required. The Personal Safety Tutor will be a visible, accessible individual who can provide knowledge and expertise in clinical practice when affording care to those people that exhibit potential or actual aggressive behaviour.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the post.

Please refer to full Job Description and Person Specification or contact Andrea Adamson for more details.

The Personal Safety Tutor and Violence Reduction Advisor is an integral role supporting the delivery of education relating to conflict resolution and violence reduction for staff working within the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust (RBFT). They will assist the Head of Risk to ensure the effective delivery of all physical intervention training and its theory components Trust wide. They will support the agenda in designing, implementing and evaluating physical intervention training programmes which meets the needs of the Trust and its staff and which are reflective of both physical and mental health needs of our patients. With expertise in the field of Prevention & Management of Violence and Aggression (PMVA), the post holder will assist the Head of Risk in representing the Trust in promoting the therapeutic management of violence and aggression in where appropriate and upholding and promoting the positive ethos of the Trust and the General Services Association (GSA) in this field. The post holder will be expected to support the development of practice-based knowledge and skills in this specialist area and contribute to research and audit where required. The Personal Safety Tutor will be a visible, accessible individual who can provide knowledge and expertise in clinical practice when affording care to those people that exhibit potential or actual aggressive behaviour.

Objectives of the fellowship would depend on the sub-speciality interest agreed. Please see the attachment below for more detail about the sub-specialties on offer.

The detailed job description and Person specification associated with this role is attached to the advert.

Please see the detailed Job Description but this is a summary: Works across acute Trust providing an autonomous nutrition support service, as an expert in clinical field to deliver specialist clinical services to defined patient/ client group. Provides specialist, interdisciplinary education, training and advice (formal and informal) to patients, staff and students. Works strategically to influences the development of the service both locally and nationally. Leads clinical audits in own area. Participates in /facilitates/ undertakes research in specialist field. Leads and innovates nursing practice within Enteral nutrition support both within the Trust and through local networks

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the post.