Community Senior Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a clinician to join the Intensive Support Team (IST)

The IST is for people with learning disabilities who are at a significant time in their lives when they need additional support in community.

Many of the people we support have experienced trauma, they may have additional mental health needs, sensory processing difficulties & communication needs. They may be accommodated in services who struggle to meet their complex needs.

The Teams aim is to provide dynamic support to prevent an admission to hospital. We aim to keep people safe, empower people to overcome challenges & to provide them/their staff team & or carers with the skills and knowledge needed to overcome the present challenges they face.

The Team is configured with MDT roles delivering support dependent on each individual's needs, these include:

Provider

Home

Wrap Around

The team is highly skilled, passionate, forward thinking and completely person-centred. The successful candidate will work in a supportive and caring environment.

The successful candidate will be confident, dynamic, & enthusiastic so they can contribute vital intensive support that people need at this critical time in their lives.

If you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of adults with a learning disability, & want to contribute to a new and evolving team that wants to shape learning disabilities services for the future then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for delivering high-quality clinical care and ensuring all work is needs led, evidence based and in line with current legislation.

Undertake detailed clinical assessments and following assessment derive a formulation and plan of intervention, ensuring this is negotiated with the service user and their carers (where appropriate).

To promote, establish and maintain effective communication with service users who have a range of communication difficulties and impairments

Undertake risk assessments and outline intervention plans for people with complex needs.

Provide clinical supervision and appraisals of staff within the team and supervise students while on placement with the team.

To work with partner agencies to facilitate inclusion and improve health and social care outcomes.

To maintain accurate and up to date records for all service users in line with Trust policy and National Legislation and Guidance.

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.