Band 5 Learning Disability and Autism Practitioner - Bristol

Integrated Care System; Bristol; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Bristol is looking for a Band 5 Learning Disability and Autism Practitioner. In this role, you will provide high-quality, person-centered care within a multi-disciplinary team, addressing the needs of individuals with learning disabilities and autism. The ideal candidate will be a registered nurse with an understanding of therapeutic interventions and communication with patients. This position offers a rewarding opportunity to make a difference in patients' lives.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with NMC registration.
• Awareness of working with people with learning disabilities and Autism.
• Ability to communicate effectively using alternative methods.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high-quality person-centred approach to care.
• Support service users in a multi-professional team.
• Contribute to the psychological and emotional wellbeing of service users.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to reflect on own practice

Empathy

Multidisciplinary working

Education

Registered Nurse (Learning Disabilities, Mental Health or Adult) with current NMC registration

Teaching and assessing or ability to undertake in the post

Job description

Band 5 Learning Disability and Autism Practitioner - Bristol

Do you bring passion and commitment to delivering high quality care? Do you understand the clinical and sensory needs of people with a Learning Disability and or Autism. If you are prepared to deliver evidence based change to implement clinical service delivery, this role will provide you with a rare and exciting career opportunity to be part of our new service implementation.

Avon and Wiltshire Partnership (AWP) are looking for an exceptional person to provide leadership to deliver our vision to deliver excellence for people with a learning disability and autistic people in our specialist acute inpatient mental health services

NHSE expect the service to be implemented in line with South West regional learning disability and autism capacity programme of care (2023). The ambition is to deliver a specialist, acute mental health care setting to meet the specialist environmental and clinical needs of people with a learning disability and or autism that cannot access mainstream inpatient services.

The kingfisher is being coproduced and you will be influential in designing and implementing our service and team in partnership with people with lived experience.

This is an exciting and ambitious programme that will deliver measurable benefits and clinical outcomes for those people with a learning disability and autistic people and their families by providing the sensory and clinical environment that both supports patients and contributes to recovery.

Main duties of the job

Working as a team to ensure that people who have a Learning Disability and Autism are provided with a high quality, person-centred approach to care delivery that always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity.

To work within a multi-professional team in an in-patient / community setting, providing, support, care and treatment to service users, within guidelines and protocols identified.

Developing and practicing a set of therapeutic care skills, making a significant contribution to service users' psychological, emotional and social wellbeing.

Enable service users to reach their optimum level of independence, take responsibility for ensuring service user and their relatives receive care that prioritises safety, effectiveness, partnership and hope.

To provide enhanced support to our service users who often have complex needs as expected from a specialised service.

Working within Learning Disability & Autism services can be highly rewarding and fulfilling. In addition, this role has a responsibility to provide support, coaching and supervising others less experienced in the team as part of our collective goal to develop enhanced skills expected from a specialist service.

About us

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.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

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.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role

Experience

Person Specification:

Registered Nurse (Learning Disabilities, Mental Health or Adult) with NMC registration.

Awareness of working with people with learning disabilities, Autism and complex health needs and working within a multi-disciplinary team.

PBS or PBM knowledge/ training

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Person Specification

Education and Qualification

• Registered Nurse (Learning Disabilities, Mental Health or Adult) with current NMC registration
• Teaching and assessing or ability to undertake in the post.
• Knowledge of the vulnerable adult's policy and anti-discriminatory practice.
• Knowledge of alternative communication skills

Experience and Knowledge

• Awareness of working in a Community Learning Disabilities Team or Multi-disciplinary team working
• Awareness of working with people with learning disabilities, Autism and complex health needs i.e. physical health needs or behaviours that challenge
• Knowledge of common health problems experienced by people with LD i.e. epilepsy.
• Knowledge and skills to undertake health assessments develop care plans and evaluate them using person-centered approaches. ?Knowledge and skills to deliver or facilitate health care according to assessed needs.
• Maintain accurate, appropriate records
• Knowledge and competence in medication and safe administration and disposal of drugs
• Able to develop an excellent therapeutic relationship; function as named nurse undertaking
• All aspects of the nursing process in order to provide best possible service user care
• Post Registration Experience of working with people with learning disabilities
• Experience of working with families and carers
• Effective report writing to provide clear relevant information for ward rounds, MDT's, CTR's, CETR's, CPA's MHA tribunals etc

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to reflect on own practice
• Multidisciplinary working communication skills.
• Person centered approaches to nursing care
• Ability to transform health information in an accessible format according to individual service user need such as using pictures or symbols.
• De-escalation and listening skills

Other Requirements

• Empathy
• Driven to achieve.
• Self-motivated
• Good time management
• Passion to work with people
• Ability to think of innovative ways of working to support our service users to lead fulfilled lives
• Driving license with access to a car

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Address

The Kingfisher, Blackberry Hill Hospital

The Kingfisher, Blackberry Hill Hospital