Our services, teams and people are celebrating after being shortlisted for three prestigious Nursing Times Awards.
We are shortlisted in the Nursing in the Community, Nursing in Mental Health and in the Ann Shuttleworth Rising Star Award categories.
Our amazing Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Teams in the community and Outreach Team have provided an integrated additional support pathway to new mothers with mental health problems who are vulnerable to hospital admission.
Providing nurse led, evidence-based interventions such as Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Compassion-Focused Therapy, the treatments reduce distress, manage risk, and support the parent infant relationships within the family home while reducing hospital admissions.
Nurse Jordan Spires has been shortlisted in the Rising Star category. Now a Practice Education Facilitator, Jordan is spearheading The Trust’s involvement in the innovative Culture of Care Programme which aims to improve the culture of inpatient mental health, learning disability and autism wards for patients and staff so that they are safe, therapeutic and equitable places to be cared for, and fulfilling places to work.
We’ve also been recognised and shortlisted in the Nursing in Mental Health Award for a reducing self-harm initiative in a female acute mental health setting, that uses the informed psychological intervention DBT.
Our teams and people will present to Nursing Times Award Judges in September.
Good luck to all our amazing colleagues who are nominated.
