Community Senior Practitioner

An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and enthusiastic Community Senior Practitioner to join a new Adult Learning Disability Intensive Support Team (IST).

The IST is bringing together three ALD services following an organisational change process who will become the IST.

The team is in the early planning stages and the successful candidate will be integral to the development of the service specification and standard works.

The team will work across the Durham and Tees Valley (DTV) footprint and will work closely with already established community teams within each locality.

The team will have three distinctive pathways :

Provider Support pathway - Mon- Fri 9-5. Support ALD providers who are struggling and support them to be a commissioned service.

Home Support pathway - 7 days 8am - 8pm. To support in keeping people at home and providing rapid and intensive support.

Wraparound support pathway - 7 days 8am - 8pm. Involves the delivery of direct care to patients and / or their care support with continuous intensive interventions.

There will be a level of flexibility required depending on service / patient need.

Qualified nursing staff will be expected to join the LD nurse on call rota.

Main duties of the job

To improve the lives of people with mental ill health by minimising the impact of their condition through the delivery of excellent services to promote recovery and well-being.

To be compassionate in meeting the needs of patients and their carers.

To work as part of a community team which may be integrated, working collaboratively and in partnership with local authority services.

To be professionally accountable and responsible for patient care, undertaking a range of clinical / therapeutic interventions in patients' homes and other community settings.

To act as lead professional or care co-ordinator as appropriate.

To promote social inclusion, community access and participation through the provision of patient care.

To facilitate others in the team to develop competence by providing leadership, day to day supervision, clinical advice and clinical supervision to registered healthcare professionals as appropriate, associate practitioners, community support workers and students.

To be committed to and take a lead role in activities integral to the Trust's Quality Improvement System.

18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework is essential., Essential

• Current professional registration with an approved professional body.


• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.


• For registered nurses : MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education.


Must be achieved within agreed timescale.

• 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework.


• Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale..


Experience

Essential

• Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment..


• Working collaboratively with service users and their families / carers.


• Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate


• Working in a multi-disciplinary team


• Quality improvement activities, Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.


• Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice.


• Clinical Governance and its application in practice


• Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
  
  We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.


From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood.

Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.