Learning Disability Screening Practitioner

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Learning Disability Screening Practitioner, Poole

Client: Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group

Location: Poole, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 12e7351b6106

Job Views: 7

Posted: 26.04.2025

Expiry Date: 10.06.2025

Job Description:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide a high-quality person-centered approach to care delivery which always considers people’s safety, privacy, and dignity.
• Clarify reasons for persons being on hold or ceased from programmes, and enable case finding of persons with learning disability and eligible for screening and learning re barriers to access.
• Identifying learnings in relation to the quality and completeness of the Learning Disability registers and prompt review where improvement needed.
• Provide supervision, mentorship, training, and clinical support to students and trained practitioners.
• Undertake a scoping review, and develop and implement a plan to increase screening uptake, which reflects any variation across Dorset e.g. by PCN; and inform the development of a sustainable delivery model moving forwards which meets the needs of persons with learning disability and their carers.
• Example activities might include: actions to improve completion of screening section in annual health checks, workforce education and training, development and awareness raising of reasonable adjustment pathways (as needed), co-production of resources with lived experience partners.
• To support the Dorset Screening programme service following the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) which includes priority commitments to support people with Learning Disability access screening and improving health inequalities.
• To work with CTLD MDTs and Primary Care providing support to access the national screening programs for patients with a learning disability.

Full details are provided in the Job Description

Person specification

Knowledge Skills and Training

Essential criteria

• Registered practitioner, public health professional or lived experience peer worker to degree/diploma level supplemented by post
• Registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty

Desirable criteria

• Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training

Job Specific Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience at Practitioner Band 5 level or equivalent if non-NHS background
• Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and health promotion interventions in area of specialism
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively

Desirable criteria

• Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
• Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills.
• Able to overcome barriers to understanding where there are physical or Cognitive barriers.
• Experience of planning and organising complex activities, e.g., organise own time and that of junior staff and learners, planning off duty rotas and undertaking discharge planning involving co-ordination with other agencies.
• Ability to evaluate care leading to improvement in quality standards and service improvement

Managerial experience

Desirable criteria

• Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff