Specialist Practitioner

Job overview

Are You Creative ? Do You think outside the Box ? Do you want to work in a team that is supportive, passionate and motivated ?

The Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Learning Disability Team are looking for a highly motivated Skilled Practitioner to Join Our Team.

This is a Full Time 37.5 Hours per week, Band 6 Role, it would be suitable for a Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse/ Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist with a Passion to work along side individuals with a Learning Disability.

You must be a Car driver and have full access to a car  as this is a community post.

You should have an interest in working with  a trauma informed and  person Centred approach.  Creativity to engage service user's in a way that is meaningful to them in order to achieve effective out comes for individuals.

A passion to remain up to date with current  evidence based practice, to inform all clinical outcomes.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high-quality person-centred approach to care delivery which always considers people’s safety, privacy, and dignity.

To Provide high Quality Out of area care coordination to maintain local contact and facilitate timely repatriation back to Local area if appropriate.

To provide specialist care and interventions, assessments, treatments and managing patients on a caseload, as part of the wider multi-disciplinary care team.

To provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of patients / service users.

To devise specialist programmes of care for other professionals to deliver and ensure they are delivered appropriately.

To plan, implement and review health improvement programmes in a range of settings.

Provide supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students, trained practitioners, care providers and the wider health and care system.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification.  When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.

As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare offers support for people getting into work. We offer an employability service to support individuals with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support, please do contact [email protected]