Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

About Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

These are the values that we live by 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. Please find attached the behaviour framework that underpins these values for this job role. What’s special about this opportunity? Berkshire Healthcare Trust is a community and mental health trust, providing a wide range of services to people of all ages living in Berkshire. We are a new service which opened to clients from the 1st March 2019. We provide services for East Berkshire clients who are accessing our Talking Therapies Service which provides psychological therapies to people with common mental health problems. Would you like to be part of a team that drives forward the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health commitment to expanding IAPT services and improving quality? Do you have the skills required to work in a forward thinking Talking Therapies Team as we move forward to supporting people to find or stay in work, so that IAPT services can better meet a person’s individual employment needs and contribute to improved employment outcomes? If the answer is yes, this new Employment Advisor role could be for you. This role is part of a new and developing Employment Advice Service, working closely with clinicians that provide psychological therapies to people with common mental health problems. You will support our clients with common mental health problems to gain, return to or retain employment and will involve working directly with a range of stakeholders (e.g. DWP, Job Centre Plus, voluntary organisations, employers, trade unions and employment agencies etc.) to keep people in employment and secure employment opportunities. About you: We are looking for proactive, motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and supportive therapies team. If you currently work or have experience in health or social care, recruitment, employment or education services or if you have transferable skills to enable people find/retain employment; this is an excellent opportunity to join our team of Employment Advisors. You will be provided with learning and development opportunities along with appropriate support and training. There will be a requirement to undertake a short formal study programme. You will be required to travel across East Berkshire and flexibility will be an essential requirement and desirably we would welcome applicants who speak fluent additional languages especially Polish, Punjabi and Urdu. In return, we offer a supportive and flexible working environment as well as generous staff benefits. The Trust is committed to developing and delivering excellent customer focused service by treating patients, their families, friends, carers and staff with professionalism respect and dignity. This is a fixed term role with a possibility of the contract being extended to March 2021. What’s next? If you share our passion for people and the dedication to excel, we’d love to hear from you. We are happy to answer any questions that you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call Angela Sheehan on 07827 802536 or email: [email removed] who’ll be delighted to help. In addition to a competitive salary, as a valued member of our team, you will receive generous annual leave, have access to a car salary sacrifice scheme (available to all permanent staff over the age of 21), as a respected member of the NHS, discounts from high street retailers and restaurants. We’d love to welcome you to our warm, friendly team, who want to help you to make your career reflect your ambitions. For further details / informal visits contact: Angela Sheehan, Telephone 07827 802536, Email [email removed] 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. After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post you are agreeing to Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are appointed to a post information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. 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. The Trust may close any vacancy prior to the advertised closing date due to the high level of responses we receive for some of our vacancies. Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites. The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults. NO AGENCIES TO CONTACT BERKSHIRE HEALTHCARE DIRECTLY PLEASE 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. To stay safe in your job search we recommend that you visit SAFERjobs (https://www.safer-jobs.com), a non-profit, joint industry and law enforcement organisation working to combat job scams. Visit the SAFERjobs website for information on common scams and to get free, expert advice for a safer job search.

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