# Specialist Staff Nurse

**Company**: Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
**Location**: Slough
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £51,657 to £58,785 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9371-26-0864?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Berkshire Healthcare is developing an innovative Assertive Outreach service to provide intensive, flexible and compassionate support to people living with severe and enduring mental health conditions who find it difficult to engage with traditional services.

This is an exciting Band 7 opportunity to join a newly established specialist multidisciplinary team and play a key role in leading and shaping how Assertive Outreach is delivered across Berkshire. Working from our Slough hub, you will support individuals with complex needs, helping them remain engaged with services, avoid crisis and admission, and achieve the outcomes that matter most to them.

**Main duties of the job**

- Manage a protected caseload of individuals with complex mental health needs, significant risk factors and multi-agency involvement.

- Deliver proactive and persistent outreach, including community visits and flexible engagement approaches.

- Develop collaborative care plans focused on recovery, relapse prevention and admission avoidance.

- Work closely with carers, families and partner agencies including housing, social care, primary care, police and voluntary services.

- Act as an expert practitioner within the multidisciplinary team, providing clinical leadership, supervision and specialist advice.

- Contribute to service development, quality improvement and the implementation of innovative approaches to engagement and care.

**Benefits of working for us**

- 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 including electric vehicles

- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services

- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants

- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality

- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave

- Free parking across Trust sites

## Skills

### Required
- NMC registration
- Significant experience working with people with severe mental illness in community settings
- Experience of working within multidisciplinary and multi-agency environments
- Leadership experience or equivalent management experience

### Nice to have
- Highly specialist knowledge acquired through education to Masters level, training or equivalent experience
- Evidence of highly developed continuous professional development relevant to your area of specialism

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