Band 7 Training Lead - BSW Complex Emotional Needs Service

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to join an expanding team working to improve the lives of people with personality disorder/complex emotional needs. As a clinical trainer you will take a lead role in developing and delivering an innovative and creative training plan that supports our aspiration to become a trauma informed whole system pathway of care.
Under the direction of the Clinical Lead and Supervision and Reflective Practice lead, the post holder will work on the development and implementation of a BSW (Bath North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire) wide training programme for health and social care staff work with complex emotional needs/personality disorder.
You will be working with the Personality disorder pathway team, learning and development team, and system partners to develop, design, deliver, analyse and evaluate learning and development programmes and other essential skills training. As well as leading on developing and delivering training projects you will provide 0.4 wte clinical time plus line management and supervision within the personality disorder pathway.
The role will involve mapping out training plans and schedules, coordinate training programs (outsourced or in-house) for Adult mental health and other services in the BSW health and social care system as well as delivering high quality training and an evaluation programme.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

TRAINING AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT

• Use highly specialist knowledge to develop and deliver (alongside colleagues) engaging training packages on the needs of and interventions for people with complex emotional needs/personality disorders to a variety of learner levels (support staff to clinicians).
• Ensuring that all highly specialised training packages are underpinned by theoretical knowledge, practice-focussed and are evidence-based and kept up to date with clinical advances and research.
• To provide training, supervision and consultation in psychological approaches to other staff in the multidisciplinary team. This to include joint assessment with care co-ordinators, formulation of psychological problems and planning of interventions to be implemented by care co-ordinators or other team members with service users.
• To provide training and supervision to staff throughout the mental health services (alongside main identified supervisor).
• To contribute to the teaching of students and trainees in psychology, medicine, nursing and other health care disciplines.
• To agree a plan of personal development with the Psychology Lead and the post holder’s line manager.
• Provide inclusive, compassionate and effective leadership for your team by setting clear vision and direction.
• Develop a culture and environment in which members of staff are encouraged and supported to deliver high- quality services and are supported to innovate and improve services where appropriate.
• Encourage your team to feel able to raise concerns openly and safely.
• Promote equality of opportunity in service delivery and employment, ensuring that no person receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of gender, marital status, race, religion, creed, colour nationality ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation or disability.
• Support prompt recruitment by identifying vacancies to the AWP Recruitment Team as soon as they arise, and participate in the selection and effective induction and onboarding of new joiners to the team.
• Ensure that all team members have a very positive introduction to the team and a well-supported first year.
• Take responsibility for encouraging people to stay with AWP, ensuring that you are aware whenever a member of your team is considering leaving, seeking to understand their reasons and encouraging them to stay.
• Ensure that key messages are cascaded in your team and that your team are encouraged to put forward suggestions.
• Show appreciation to your team when they do good work and support them when they are struggling.
• Consider the individual needs of team members for a healthy work-life balance and think about how their needs can be supported by providing flexible ways of working.
• Support all team members to keep their mandatory and statutory training up-to-date and identify the learning and development needs of all team members of the team ensuring that everyone has an up-to-date personal development plan (PDP).
• Ensure that every team member as at least an hour of supervision (one-to-one meeting) each month, this may include both managerial and clinical supervision.
• Ensure all team members receive a constructive assessment of their performance each year and set SMART objectives for the coming year.
• Seek support from the HR Team to tackle any worries regarding matters of discipline, including both conduct and capability concerns, supporting a ‘just and restorative culture’. Take prompt action regarding serious concerns and ensure clear plans are in place for problems which are less serious in nature but prove difficult to resolve.
• Act as a positive role model at all times, encouraging people to feel equal members of the team whilst working within clear frameworks and policies.
• Promote effective use of bank and agency nursing staff, providing a safe and effective service, complying with regulatory standards.
• Ensure that you and your team understand all of the agreed key performance indicators for your service, particularly relating to outcomes and essential standards to be met.

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